Revision and cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical endemic genus Smeringopus Simon, 1890 (Araneae: Pholcidae)
Author
HUBER, BERNHARD A.
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Zootaxa
2012
2012-09-07
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3461.1.1
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Smeringopus sambesicus
Kraus, 1957
Figs. 755–756
,
764
,
805–810
Smeringopus sambesicus
Kraus 1957: 228–229
, figs. 28–33.
Types.
Male
holotype
and 2♀ paratypes from
Mozambique
,
Shire River
[~
17°42’S
,
35°19’E
], 1927 (
H.B. Cott
), holotype and
1♀
in
MHNG
, 1♀ in SMF (9813/1), cleared epigynum mounted on slide, examined
.
Misidentified
paratype
:
1♀
from
Rwanda
, no further data, in
SMF
(
RII
11727, ex
RII 7771
), examined
.
Notes. The vial containing the
holotype
and
1♀
paratype
also contained a male with both palps missing and without proximal cheliceral apophyses.
The
female
paratype
from
Rwanda
is a misidentified
S. peregrinoides
.
FIGURES 805–810.
Smeringopus sambesicus
. 805. Left cymbium and procursus, retrolateral view. 806–807. Left procursus, prolateral and dorsal views. 808–810. Left embolus, prolateral, prolatero-ventral, and prolatero-dorsal views. Scale lines: 0.3 mm.
Diagnosis. Distinguished from similar species with proximal and distal cheliceral apophyses (
S. roeweri
,
S. carli
,
S. lubondai
) by shapes of procursus (distal blade-shaped apophyses,
Figs. 805–807
) and bulb (processes of embolus,
Figs. 808–810
); from
S. roeweri
and
S. lubondai
also by long frontal epigynal plate (very similar
S. carli
, cf.
Figs. 761, 762
).
Male (
holotype
). Total body length 6.1, carapace width 1.9 (slightly deformed). Leg 1: 41.0 (11.1 + 0.8 + 10.7 + 16.3 + 2.1), tibia 2: 7.7, tibia 3: 5.7, tibia 4: 7.9; tibia 1 L/d: 48. Habitus similar
S. carli
(cf.
Fig. 748
). Carapace ochre-yellow with brown median and indistinct lateral marks, clypeus without brown stripes (present in original description), legs monochromous ochre-yellow, abdomen ochre-gray with very indistinct pattern (probably artificially indistinct). Distance PME-PME 195 µm, diameter PME 175 µm, distance PME-ALE 80 µm, distance AME-AME 60 µm, diameter AME 150 µm. Ocular area slightly elevated, secondary eyes with ‘pseudo-lenses’; deep thoracic pit. Chelicerae with slender proximal apophyses as in
S. carli
(cf.
Figs. 788, 789
), distal apophyses rather like in
S. roeweri
(cf.
Figs. 771, 772
; more towards frontal and shorter than in
S. carli
). Palps as in
Figs. 755 and 756
, coxa with distinct retrolateral apophysis and shallow wide furrow, trochanter barely modified, femur with shallow retrolateral furrow with ventrally distinct rim, procursus with distinctive distal blade-shaped processes (
Figs. 805–807
), bulb with distinctive embolus (
Figs. 808–810
). Legs without spines, few vertical hairs, with curved hairs on tibiae and metatarsi 1 and 2, retrolateral trichobothrium on tibia 1 at 3%; prolateral trichobothrium present on tibia 1.
Female. In general similar to male; tibia
1 in
paratype
from Shire
River
: 9.1; missing in other
paratype
examined. Epigynum very similar
S. carli
(cf.
Figs. 761, 762
), also cleared internal view similar
S. carli
(
Fig. 764
).
Distribution. Only known from
type
locality in
Mozambique
(
Fig. 718
).
Material
examined.
MOZAMBIQUE
:
Shire River
:
1♂
2♀
types
above
.