An update on the spider genus Hexophthalma (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Afrotropical region, with descriptions of new species
Author
Lotz, Leon N.
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2018
2018-04-10
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Hexophthalma damarensis
(
Lawrence, 1928
)
Figs 9
,
19
,
25
Sicarius damarensis
Lawrence, 1928
: 221
.
Sicarius damarensis
–
Newlands 1986
: 47
. —
Lotz 2012
: 4
.
Hexophthalma damarensis
–
Magalhaes
et al.
2017
: 852
.
Diagnosis
Female inner spermathecae unique, with short, bulbous, finger-like sacs that branch off the copulatory tube part, without reduced outer spermathecae (
Fig. 9
). Male embolus ending in a thin, pointed apex; thicker basal part of embolus with a hump on one side, slightly basal from median (
Fig. 19
); this is similar to in
H. goanikontesensis
sp. nov.
except that the thinner apical part lacks a basal embolus keel and the hump on the side of the thicker part is more basal.
Material examined
Holotype
NAMIBIA
:
♀
,
Outjo
[
20°07′ S
,
16°09′ E
] (
SAMC 7057
).
Other material
NAMIBIA
:
1 ♂
,
Helio
,
19°03′ S
,
16°29′ E
,
14 Feb.–23 Mar. 1987
,
E. Griffin
leg. (
NMNW 40160
)
;
1 ♀
,
1
imm., same data as for preceding but
8 Aug. 1987
–
27 Mar. 1988
(
NMNW 40986
)
;
1 ♂
, same data as for preceding but
27 Mar.–4 May 1988
(
NMNW 41135
)
.
Natural history
Hexophthalma damarensis
have been collected in Savanna biomes using pitfall traps.
Distribution
Hexophthalma damarensis
is distributed in the northern central part of
Namibia
(
Fig. 25
).