Revision and cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical endemic genus Smeringopus Simon, 1890 (Araneae: Pholcidae) Author HUBER, BERNHARD A. text Zootaxa 2012 2012-09-07 3461 1 1 138 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3461.1.1 journal article 53629 10.11646/zootaxa.3461.1.1 664d9cee-5b75-4788-a394-6b35a37de652 1175­5334 6415657 0704C43A-73D8-4A28-915A-7FF8611C8606 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 .