Pseudanapis benoiti, Platnick, N. I & M. U. Shadab, 1979

Platnick, N. I & M. U. Shadab, 1979, A review of the spider genera Anapisona and Psudanapis, American Museum Novitates 2672, pp. 1-20 : 18-19

Pseudanapis benoiti , new species

Figures 51，56，57

Types: Male holotype and female paratype from Vallèe de Kiharo, Kambaila, Kivu, Zaire (June, 1973; M. Lejeune), deposited in MR AC.

Etymology: Named for Dr. P. L. G. Benoit, who made these and other African anapids available for study.

Diagnosis: Males of P. benoiti may be recognized by the large proximal apophysis on the palpal patella (fig. 51)，females by the large, round spermathecae (figs. 56, 57).

Male: Total length 0.81. Carapace 0.47 long, 0.41 wide, 0.26 high. Abdomen 0.48 long, 0.46 wide. Patellae lighter than other leg segments. Ratio of eyes, anterior lateral: posterior median: posterior lateral, 3:2:3. From above, posterior eye row slightly recurved. Posterior median eyes separated by twice their diameter from posterior laterals.

Palpal patella with large proximal and small distal apophyses; embolus long, arising on prolateral side of bulb at about one-third its length, extending across and beyond tip of tegulum (fig. 51).

Female: Total length 0.86. Carapace 0.47 long, 0.43 wide, 0.27 high. Abdomen 0.58 long, 0.58 high. Legs and eyes as in male, except posterior eye row slightly procurved. All palpal segments present but tibia and tarsus fused. Abdomen as in P. paroculus females.

Spermathecae relatively large, rounded (figs. 56，57).

Material Examined: Thirteen males and 19 females taken with the types (MRAC， AMNH, Otago Museum), plus the following: Zaire: Kivu: Forêt de Kasuo, Lubero, elevation 1600 m., Dec. 27-31，1966 (R. P. M. Y. Celis, MRAC), lc?, 3?; Ruiss. Musumusubu,

Lubero, elevation 1420 m., Dec. 30，1966 (R. P. M. Y. Celis, MRAC), 12; Forêt de Visiki， Dec. 22, 1971 (M. Lejeune, MRAC), 12; Vallèe de Kalingolingo, Kambaila, June, 1973 (M. Lejeune，MRAC)，1 c?，29; Vallèe de Vukaika，Kambaila, June, 1973 (M. Lejeune, MRAC), lcí.