Andromma bouvieri Fage, 1936

Bosselaers, Jan & Jocqué, Rudy, 2022, Studies in the Liocranidae (Araneae): revision of Andromma Simon, 1893, European Journal of Taxonomy 850, pp. 1-78 : 22-24

Andromma bouvieri Fage, 1936

Figs 11 , 38

Andromma bouvieri Fage, 1936: 85 , figs 1–2 (description ♀).

Material examined

Lectotype (here designated)

KENYA • ♀; South Turkana, between the Nepau escarpment and Kalodeke, SW of Lake Turkana; appr. 2°40′ N, 38°23′ W; 800–1000 m a.s.l.; 20 Jan. 1933; Arambourg, Chapuis and Jeannel leg.; in hot, dry desert, in chimney-mound Macrotermes (subgenus Bellicositermes ) sp. termite nests, (stn 22); MNHN AR3103.

Paralectotype

KENYA • 1 ♀; same collection data as for lectotype; MNHN AR3103 .

Supplementary description

Female (lectotype, Fig. 11 )

MEASUREMENTS. Total length 4.69. Carapace length 2.56, width 2.13; height 1.07.

COLOUR ( Fig. 11A–B ). Carapace and chelicerae orange. Legs and abdomen pale yellow.

PROSOMA. Fovea 0.32, 1.05 from PME.

EYES. MOQ length 0.25, anterior width 0.31, posterior width 0.34, AER straight from above, width 0.64, PER procurved from above, width 0.70. All eyes circular; AME 0.15, ALE 0.08, PLE 0.07, PME 0.03; AME–AME: 0.05, AME–ALE: 0.05, ALE–PLE: 0.02, PME–PME: 0.15. Clypeus vertical, 0.23, with seven long setae. Chilum absent. Sternum length 1.56, same width. Chelicerae ( Fig. 11C ): promargin with two teeth and one tiny tooth slightly more inward.

LEG SPINATION. All femora with one dorsal and one proventral spine. T I v 2-2-2-2-2; Mt I v 2-2-2; T III pl 1 v 2; Mt III v 2-2; T IV v 2-2; Mt IV v 1-1.

LEG I MEASUREMENTS. Fe: 2.34, P: 0.92, T: 2.06, Mt: 1.73, t: 1.28; total: 8.33.

LEG FORMULA. 4123.

EPIGYNE ( Fig. 11D–E ). A wide, sclerotised area with posterior margin medially with two small indentations, anterior margin indented in the middle; copulatory openings transversely oval, separated by less than their long axis; internal structure vaguely visible in transparency.

Male

Unknown.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in northern Kenya ( Fig. 38 ). The species is termitophilous.

Figures

Fig. 11. Andromma bouvieri Fage, 1936, ♀, lectotype (MNHN AR3103). A. Habitus, ventral view. B. Same, dorsal view. C. Right chelicera, median view. D–E. Epigyne, ventral view. Abbreviation: PCT=precoxal triangles. Scale bars: A–B =1 mm; C= 0.5 mm; D =0.2 mm; E= 0.25 mm.

Fig. 38. Distribution map of species of Andromma Simon, 1893. A. aethiopicum Simon, 1893 (yellow), A. alvoculatum sp. nov. (red), A. anacardium sp. nov. (green), A. bouvieri Fage, 1936 (black), A. cyamos sp. nov. (blue), A. cycnotrachelos sp. nov. (fuchsia), A. didrepanum sp. nov. (orange) and A. divinagraciae sp. nov. (white).