Anyphops parvulus ( Pocock, 1900 )

Corronca, J. A., 2005, Re-description of the lycosiformis species group of Anyphops Benoit and description of two new species (Araneae, Selenopidae), Journal of Natural History 39 (17), pp. 1381-1393 : 1391-1392

Anyphops parvulus ( Pocock, 1900)

( Figure 3f–h ; Map 1 )

Selenops parvulus Pocock 1900, p 332 . Female holotype from South Africa, Port Elizabeth (33 ° 499S, 25 ° 349E), unknown depositary, not examined.

Anyphops parvulus: Benoit 1968, p 116 .

Diagnosis. The female of A. parvulus can be distinguished from other Anyphops species in the shape of the epigynum, which is wider than long with two slight anterior secondary epigyneal pockets ( Figure 3g ), and in the coiled spermathecae ( Figure 3h ).

Female CAS. Total body length 7.07. Prosoma 2.73 length, 2.83 width. Eye sizes : AME 0.16, ALE 0.12, PME 0.19, PLE 0.21. Opisthosoma 4.15 length, 3.11 width. Leg formula 4321. Leg spination: Fe I p1.1.0, d1.1.1, r1.1.1, II – III d1.1.1, r1.1.1, IV d1.1.1, r1.0.1; Tib I –II v2.2.2.2; Mt I–II v2.2.2 , III v2.2.0, IV v2.1.0. Prosoma orange-brown with lateral dark grey markings reaching the lateral edges, with a black external line, as in Figure 3f . Chelicerae orange-brown with a slight dark grey marking on the inner edge and a transversal spot at its tip. Legs pale orange-brown with markings: Fe I –IV with two incomplete dark rings, Fe I with a prolateral longitudinal band and Fe II –IV with the same band but incomplete; Pat I –IV dark, Tib I –IV with two incomplete dark rings, the basal darker; metatarsi and tarsi brown. Dorsum of opisthosoma pale grey with dark grey spots; laterals dark grey and posterior portion of the opisthosoma with a whitish transversal band, as in Figure 3f . Venter yellowish. Epigynum and internal structures as in Figure 3g, h .

Material examined. South Africa: Western Cape Province, Kranshoek , 20 km E. Knysna (34 ° 059S, 23 ° 149E), forest, 180 m, one female, 13 December 1996, coll. C. E. Griswold, CAS .

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. South Africa: Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces.

Figures

Map 1. Distribution of Anyphops species in South Africa.

Figure 3. (a–e) Anyphops ngome n. sp. (a–c) Female holotype: (a) dorsal opisthosoma colour pattern, (b) epigynum, ventral view, (c) epigynum, dorsal view; (d, e) male paratype: (d) male palp, lateral view, (e) male palp, ventral view. (f–h) Anyphops parvulus (Pocock), female. (f) Dorsal opisthosoma colour pattern, (g) epigynum, ventral view, (h) epigynum, dorsal view. ep, secondary epigynal pocket. Scale bars: genitalia50.25 mm; other drawings51 mm.