Savigniorrhipis Wunderlich, 1992

Crespo, Luís Carlos, Bosmans, Robert, Cardoso, Pedro & Borges, Paulo A. V., 2013, On the endemic spider species of the genus Savigniorrhipis Wunderlich, 1992 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in the Azores (Portugal), with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3745 (3), pp. 330-342 : 332-333

Genus Savigniorrhipis Wunderlich, 1992

Type species: Savigniorrhipis acoreensis Wunderlich, 1992 .

Diagnosis. Leg spination 2/2/1/1; tmIV present; abdominal pattern present; male pedipalpal tibial apophysis large and unciform, projecting dorsally to the cymbium; radix with a wide base and with two apical processes, the posterior one in close contact with the embolus; distal suprategular apophysis a hook-shaped lobe and a small bifid marginal process; dorsal plate of the epigynum undivided through most of its length; receptacula U-shaped.

Savigniorrhipis can be separated from other genera of the Savignia -group by comparison of several characters: it differs from Araeoncus in the males by the presence of the protegulum and shared absence of the tegular sac (see Hormiga, 2000, fig. 1), in the females by the undivided epigynum and somatically by the presence of tmIV; it differs from Dicymbium in the males by the very wide non-spiral radical base and in the females by the undivided epigynum; it differs from Savignia in males by the absence of an AME-lobe, in females by the undivided epigynum and somatically by the presence of tmIV; it differs from Diplocephalus and Erigonella in the females by the undivided epigynum and somatically by the presence of tmIV; it differs from Glyphesis in the males by the absence of lateral sulci, in the females by the undivided epigynum and somatically by the presence of tmIV; it differs from Saloca in the males by the presence of a marginal suprategular apophysis, in the females by U-shaped spermathecae and somatically by the presence of tmIV; it differs from Alioranus in the males by the presence of a marginal suprategular apophysis and somatically by the presence of tmIV. Composition. S. acoreensis Wunderlich, 1992 ; S. topographicus Crespo , n. sp. Distribution. The archipelago of Azores.

Phylogenetics. See Systematics in Discussion.