Cybaeodes carusoi, Platnick & Di Franco, 1992

Platnick & Di Franco, 1992, On The Relationships of the Spider Genus Cybaeodes (Araneae, Dionycha), American Museum Novitates 3053, pp. 1-9 : 8-9

Cybaeodes carusoi , new species

Figures 19, 20

TYPE: Holotype male taken at an elevation of 400 m on Pic des Singes (Bejaia) , Algeria (Nov. 3, 1984, I. Marcellino), deposited in MCSN .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Dr. Domenico Caruso, organizer of the expedition on which the type was collected.

DIAGNOSIS: Males of this species can be recognized by the presence of two tibial apophyses: the larger is retrolateral, long, and triangular, the smaller dorsal and medially placed (Fig. 20); the median apophysis is large, rectangular, with a small hook, curved ventrally, on its apical medial edge ( Fig. 19 ).

MALE: Total length 2.96. Carapace 1.48 long, 1.1 1 wide. Femur 11 1.1 1 long. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.05, ALE 0.07, PME 0.07, PLE 0.07; AME-AME 0.02, AME- ALE 0.01, PME-PME 0.06, PME-PLE 0.09, ALE-PLE 0.02; MOQ length 0.16, front width 0.14, back width 0. 16. Leg spination: femora II p0-0- 1; III rO-0- 1; IV p0-0- 1, rO-0- 1; tibiae II v1 -2 -1. Bulb with unexpanded embolar base, short and thick embolar projection, dorsally with another, more slender projection; conductor with lateral long peak on its apical edge ( Fig. 19 ); palp with two tibial apophyses ( Fig. 20 ).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Algeria.

Figures

Figs. 19-22. 19, 20. Cybaeodes carusoi, new species. 21, 22. C. alicatai, new species. 19. Left male palp, ventral view. 20. Same, retrolateral view. 21. Epigynum, ventral view. 22. Same, dorsal view.