Studies in the Liocranidae (Araneae): revision of Andromma Simon, 1893 Bosselaers, Jan Jocqué, Rudy European Journal of Taxonomy 2022 2022-12-09 850 1 78 Bosselaers & Jocqué, 2022 Bosselaers & Jocqué 2022 [591,900,1629,1656] Arachnida Liocranidae Andromma Animalia Araneae 43 44 Arthropoda species elephantactes sp. nov.   urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 98B9B440-9A2B-46F8-BF6C-2BED3A725DAA  Figs 23, 39    Diagnosis The female of  Andromma elephantactes sp. nov.is characterized by the shape of the epigyne and the course of the copulatory ducts ending in small oval spermathecae.    Etymology The species name is a noun in apposition composed by the Greek nouns ‘ἐλέφας’, meaning ‘ivory’, and ‘ἀκτή’, meaning ‘coast’, evidently referring to the country of the typelocality.    Type material   Holotype   IVORY COAST• ♀; Appouesso, Wof village; 6°36′30″ N, 3°26′50″ W;  20 Nov. 1994; Jocqué R.leg.; cocoa plantation; BE_RMCA_ARA.Ara 201034.   Fig. 23.  Andromma elephantactes sp. nov., ♀, holotype (BE_RMCA_ARA.Ara 201034). A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Same, ventral view. C–D. Epigyne, ventral view. E–F. Same cleared, dorsal view. Scale bars: A–B =2 mm; C–D=0.2 mm; E–F =0.1 mm.   Paratype   IVORY COAST• 1 ♀; Appouesso, Forêt Classée de la Bossematié; 6°36′53″ N, 3°27’08″ W;  7 May 1995; R. Jocquéand K. Tanohleg.; pitfall3A; BE_RMCA_ARA.Ara 204230.   Other material   IVORY COAST• 2 ♀♀; Abidjan, Yopougon, CNRS area; 5°19′43.2″ N, 4°07’54.6″ W;  27 Feb. 2002; sifting leaf litter; CJB 4008.    Description  Female( holotype, Fig. 23) MEASUREMENTS. Total length 4.97. Carapace length 2.13, width 1.92, height 0.64. COLOUR ( Fig. 23A–B). Carapace orange, gradually paler towards posterior margin; with dark area around AME, reddish fovea, without setae; chelicerae orange; endites yellowish orange, darker along lateral margin, paler along median margin; labium orange, paler in distal half; sternum orange with brownish precoxal triangles; legs brownish orange, coxae and trochanters yellow; abdomen including spinnerets cream; dorsum suffused with greyish brown, with faint pale stripe in anterior half. PROSOMA. Fovea pronounced, length 0.5, anterior end 0.82 from PME. MOQ length 0.26, anterior width 0.33, posterior width 0.34, AER straight from above, width 0.59, PER procurved from above, width 0.72. All eyes circular; AME 0.15, ALE 0.08, PLE 0.07, PME 0.06; AME–AME: 0.07, AME–ALE: 0.05, ALE–PLE: touching, PME–PME: 0.21. Clypeus vertical, 0.16, with four long setae. Chelicerae with dorsal and ventral longitudinal groups of long setae; anterior margin with five teeth, three in a row, the most proximal the smallest and two tiny ones somewhat in a row slightly more inward. Chilum poorly developed, two sclerites, each 0.05 high, 0.16 wide. Sternum 1.28 long, as wide. LEG SPINATION. All femora with one dorsal spine; Fe I with small pl spine; remainder of spines tiny. LEG I MEASUREMENTS. Fe: 2.06, P: 0.78, T: 1.78, Mt: 1.63, t: 1.07; total: 7.32. LEG FORMULA. 4123. PALP. Female palpal tarsus with dense scopula. EPIGYNE ( Fig. 23C–F). Roughly rectangular area, wider than long, with copulatory openings with broad, dark, posterior margins; dark anterior bend of copulation duct centrally visible in transparency. First stretch of copulatory ducts narrow with a broad cul-de-sac appendage, running towards the centre, then widening and running forward, followed by a backward running stretch with internal spikes, ending in poorly delimited, small, oval spermathecae; fertilisation ducts thin, tubular, oriented posteriorly. Sickleshaped sclerites directed outward.  Male Unknown.    Distribution Known from the two localities in eastern Ivory Coast( Fig. 39). 3990057316 1994-11-20 BE_RMCA_ARA Appouesso, W & Jocque R. Ivory Coast 6.608333 IVORY COAST 21 -3.4472222 44 45 201034 1 1 holotype 3990057327 1995-05-07 pitfall BE_RMCA_ARA R. Jocque & K. Tanoh Ivory Coast 6.6147223 Appouesso 21 -3.4522223 Foret Classee de la Bossematie 45 46 204230 1 1 paratype 3990057345 2002-02-27 CJB Ivory Coast 5.3286667 Yopougon 1 -4.1318336 45 46 4008 2 2 Abidjan