Arrenurus cuspidifer Piersig, 1986 (76, 90)

(Fig. 1, Tables 1, 2)

Material examined: Progeny from a single female collected from a lowland bog, near Lublin, Poland, 51o24’N, 23o24’E, among sedges, 28 May 2004.

Diagnosis: Dorsal plate egg­shaped with small anterior­lateral indentations; median margin of CpIII slightly shorter than CpII, CpI twice longer; Expp pentagonal­shaped, its width clearly exceeds its length, Exp located posterior to the centre of the plate and at the same level as the E2 setae; IITi10 long and located near IITi9, IIITi10 short, thick and located near IIITi9, IIITa13 smooth.

Description: The egg­shaped dorsal plate is widest in the first third of its length and narrows in the posterior part. Its anterior margin is slightly convex and the posterior margin is rounded. Anterior­lateral indentations are small, with slightly obtuse angles, and reach to about one­quarter of the plate width and one­sixth of its length. Seta Lpl is tripartite, the remaining setae are smooth.

The median margins of CpIII are slightly shorter than median margins of CpII, and CpI median margins are twice as long. The ratios of CpI/CpII/CpIII are 2.5/1.2/1. All setae on the coxal plate are smooth. Distance between the C4 seta and CpIII median margin is twice the distance between C1 and CpI median margin. Distance between setae C1 and C2 is fairly small.

to be continued.

A. latus (n=8) A. latus (Stechmann 1977) range mean standard range deviation

* Stechmann (1977) reported the Mh1­Mh1distance; the value given here was obtained by calculating [(Mh1­Mh1) ­ (Mp2­Mp2)]/2

** Stechmann (1977) reported the Mp1­Mh1 distance; the value given here was obtained by calculating (Mp1­Mh1) ­ (Mp1­Mp2)

latus .

The excretory pore plate is pentagonal­shaped, its width clearly exceeds its length. The excretory pore is located posterior to the centre of the plate and is about at the same level as the E2 setae.

The pedipalps are typical for Arrenurus species. Seta PIII1 is bipectinate, PIV1 is fairly large, all setae on PV are fairly thin and PV8 is fairly short. The first segment of the chelicerae is bottle­shaped, slightly bent posteriory and fairly short.

The proportions of segments are more or less the same on each limb. The shortest segment, the trochanter, constitutes about 2/3 of the femur and genu which are of the same length; the tibia is 1.5 times longer and the tarsus 2 times longer (Table 2). Tarsi of all legs (particularly those of the first leg) are fairly thick. Setae ITa13, ITa14, IITa13, IITa14 and IIITa14 are short and thin. ITi8 is short and thin, IITi10 is long and located almost in the same place as IITi9; IIITi10 is short, thick and located near IIITi9. IIITa13 is smooth.