Haplodrassus parvicorpus (Roewer, 1951) Roewer, 1951

Bosmans & Van Keer, 2012, On the spider species described by L. Koch in 1882 from the Balearic Islands (Araneae), Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43 (1), pp. 5-16 : 11-12

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5431/aramit4306

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6178787

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scientific name

Haplodrassus parvicorpus (Roewer, 1951)
status

comb. nov.

Haplodrassus parvicorpus (Roewer, 1951) View in CoL new combination ( Figs 27-28 View Figs. 24 - 38 )

Drassus parvulus L. Koch, 1882 : 632, pl. 20, fig. 10-11 (descr. male).

Drassus parvicorpus Roewer, 1951 : 443 (replacement name).

Haplodrassus maroccanus Denis, 1956 : 196, fig. 4-6; new synonymy (here removed from the synonymy of H. dalmatensis (L. Koch, 1866)) .

Type material

Holotype male of Drassus parvulus from Spain, Baleares, Mallorca, Riera near Palma, 22.IV.1882, Schaufuss leg. ( ZMB 7913 ); examined .

Type series of Haplodrassus maroccanus from Morocco, Pr. Taroudant, Ouled Teima (= Houara), according to DENIS (1956) composed of 1 male 3 subadult males, 1 female 3 subadult females, 21.II.1954 and 1 subadult female from Amzou; not examined, not found in the MNHNP.

Comparative material examined

SPAIN. Cadiz: Tarifa (N 36°0’50’’ E 5°36’25’’), 2 males 5 females, IV.1992, P. Poot leg. ( CRB) GoogleMaps .

Comments

Drassus parvulus was described by KOCH (1882). Being preoccupied by Drassus parvulus Lucas, 1846 , ROEWER (1951) offered Drassus parvicorpus as a replacement name. The species has never been cited since.

According to KOCH (1882), this species is related to Drassus minusculus (= Haplodrassus dalmatensis ) and differs by the more arched prosoma with a black margin, and the disposition of the eyes, with the PM not touching and the AM separated by nearly their diameter. These characters are too variable in Haplodrassus to distinguish species, but Koch’s figure 10 ( 1882) shows a male palp with a large, subterminal tooth on the tegular apophysis, and his figure 11 shows a palpal tibia with an apophysis as long as wide ( Fig. 27 View Figs. 24 - 38 ). The male palps of the holotype male are both present and in good condition ( Fig. 28 View Figs. 24 - 38 ). Examination shows that they are identical to the palps of Haplodrassus maroccanus , described from Morocco by DENIS (1956) and occurring all over the south-western Mediterranean (unpublished data). In H. dalmatensis , the tegular apophysis has only a small subterminal tooth, and the tibial apophysis is shorter than wide; thus there are sufficient diagnostic characters to separate the species. Haplodrassus maroccanus Denis, 1956 becomes a junior synonym of H. parvicorpus (Roewer, 1951 n. comb.). The synonymy of H. maroccanus with H. dalmatensis , proposed by LEVY (2004) is rejected. The species will be fully redescribed in a further paper.

Distribution

Mallorca and Morocco.

ZMB

Germany, Berlin, Museum fuer Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitaet

MNHNP

MNHNP

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Gnaphosidae

Genus

Haplodrassus

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