Harpactea proxima Ferrández, 1990

Řezáč, Milan, Cardoso, Pedro & Řezáčová, Veronika, 2023, Review of Harpactea ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae) of Portugal, Zootaxa 5263 (3), pp. 335-364 : 355

Harpactea proxima Ferrández, 1990

( Fig. 9 )

H. proxima Ferrández 1990: 33 , fig. 1c–d (description based on ♁); Le Peru 2011: 277, fig. 436 (♁, redrawn from Ferrández 1990).

Material. Type material was not examined.

Diagnosis. Harpactea proxima is very similar to H. minoccii . According to Ferrández (1990) H. minoccii differs from H. proxima by absence of femoral spines. However, all our H. minoccii specimens possess femoral spines. Their absence is very unusual in the genus Harpactea in general, which lead us to conclude that the holotype of H. minoccii is just an individual with aberrant spination. Further, H. proxima possesses conductor (not embolus as stated in Ferrández (1990)) that is uniformly curved (in H. minoccii it is sinuous— Fig. 4E ). Because we found only Harpactea with bulbus morphology of H. minoccii in the region from where H. proxima was described, we can not exclude the possibility that these two morphotypes are in fact the same species.

Ecology. So far unknown (cf. Ferrández 1990).

Distribution. It is recorded from southern Portugal (Ferrandez 1990: 37, fig. 3; Machado & Ferrandez 1991: 58, fig. 8).

Figures

FIGURE 4. Portuguese Harpactea spiders. Right male bulbus. A. H. fageli. Portugal: Setúbal; B. H. gaditana. Portugal: Alcomgosta; C. H. henriquesi sp. nov. Portugal: Torres Novas; D. H. pekari sp. nov. Portugal: Corredoura; E. H. minoccii. Portugal: Mertola; F. H. subiasi. Portugal: Setúbal; G. H. magnibulbi. Portugal: Fóia; H. H. korenkoi sp. nov. Portugal: Carrapateira. Structures: c—conductor, e—embolus, t—tegulum. The photos in grey scale are made under the scanning electron microscope.

FIGURE 9. Known distribution of Portuguese Harpactea species. In each map the first species is represented by a transparent circle and the second species by a black diamond:A) H. adicensis & H. algarvensis; B) H. crespoi & H. dolanskyi; C) H. fageli & H. gaditana; D) H. henriquesi & H. hombergii; E) H. korenkoi & H. krejcii; F) H. magnibulbi & H. minoccii; G) H. pekari & H. proxima; H) H. stalitoides & H. subiasi; I) H. tavirensis.