Pseudanapis aloha Forster

Platnick, N. I & M. U. Shadab, 1979, A review of the spider genera Anapisona and Psudanapis, American Museum Novitates 2672, pp. 1-20 : 18

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PlatnickShadab1979b

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6282876

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scientific name

Pseudanapis aloha Forster
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Pseudanapis aloha Forster , 1959,p. 315, figs. 106-110 (male holotype from Hawaii, in AMNH, examined). Suman, 1967,p. 25, figs. 11-16. Gossiblemma yapensis Roewer , 1963, p. 129, figs. 9e-9i (male and female syntypes from Yap, in Bishop Museum, not seen); first synonymized by Shear, 1978,p. 8.

Diagnosis: Males of P. aloha may be recognized by the small proximal apophysis on the palpal patella (Forster, 1959,figs. 108, 109;

Palpal patella with distal dorsal apophysis; embolus wide (fig. 50).

Female: Total length 0.83. Carapace 0.31 long, 0.32 wide, 0.22 high. Abdomen 0.58 long, 0.54 wide. Thorax and posterior eye row as in male. Pedipalp reduced to coxa and trochanter. Abdomen without dorsal scutum, with numerous small round sclerotizations and four large muscle impressions (figs. 48,49). Suman, 1967,fig. 16),females by the small spermathecae on short stalks (Suman, 1967,fig. 15).

Male: Described by Forster (1959).

Female: Described by Suman (1967).

Material Examined: Hawaii: Oahu (Van Zwaluwenburg, AMNH), lc? (holotype). Yap: Colonia, under rocks in grassy field, May 31, 1973 (J. A. Beatty, J. W. Berry, JAB), IS, 1$.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Anapidae

Genus

Pseudanapis

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