Ninetis namibiae Huber, 2000

Huber, Bernhard A. & El-Hennawy, Hisham K., 2007, On Old World ninetine spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae), with a new genus and species and the first record for Madagascar, Zootaxa 1635, pp. 45-53 : 51-52

Ninetis namibiae Huber, 2000

New records. All material collected by A. Russell-Smith. NAMIBIA: Natukanoka (18°35.8’S, 15°39.0’E), Etosha National Park, Nov. 8–12, 1996, 7ɗ1Ψ in MRAC (215.611). Same locality, November 1996, 4 ɗ1Ψ in ZFMK (Ar 010). Same locality, Jan. 17, 1997, 1ɗ in ZFMK (Ar 011). Etosha National Park, March 1998, 2 ɗ1Ψ in MRAC (215.632, 215.634). Etosha National Park, Helio Hill [19°02’S, 16°29’E], pitfall, March 15, 1998, 1ɗ1Ψ in ZFMK (Ar 012). Same data but March 12, 1998, 1Ψ in ZFMK (Ar 013). Windhoek: near Klein Windhoek, [22°33’S, 15°09’E], Jan. 19, 1997, 2ɗ12Ψ in MRAC (215.839).

Variation. Specimens from Etosha National Park are slightly smaller than those from Windhoek, and the light median stripe on the epigynum is less distinct. Male chelicerae and palps are indistinguishable.