Thyenula armata Wesołowska, 2001
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7680935 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7662058 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BA5187A2-FFA3-8037-3FBE-DB18E81BFA73 |
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Thyenula armata Wesołowska, 2001 |
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Thyenula armata Wesołowska, 2001 View in CoL
Figs 72 View Figs 69–73 , 98, 99 View Figs 98–101
Thyenula armata Wesołowska, 2001: 261 View in CoL , figs 1–6, 10, 11.
Wesołowska (2001) described both sexes.
Diagnosis: The female is recognised by the structure of the epigyne, which has very long seminal ducts forming a loop in the anterior part of the epigyne (see Wesołowska 2001: fig. 10). The male (not treated here) is characterised by the presence of a strongly sclerotised keel on the abdominal venter (see Wesołowska 2001: fig. 3).
Description:
Female.
Measurements. Cephalothorax: length 2.2–2.4, width 1.4–1.5, height 0.9–1.0. Eye field: length 0.9–1.1, anterior and posterior width 1.2–1.4. Abdomen: length 3.0–3.1, width 2.4–2.5.
General appearance as in Fig. 72 View Figs 69–73 . Carapace moderately high, dark brown, clothed in grey hairs, among them long brown bristles, numerous on eye field. Clypeus covered with light hairs. Chelicerae dark brown, labium and endites brownish with wide light tips, sternum almost black with some light hairs. Abdomen dark brown with traces of lighter markings, densely covered with brown and grey hairs, with scattered fawn hairs. Sides and venter brownish grey. Spinnerets dark. Legs light brown with darker rings on distal ends of femora and bases and tips of other segments. Epigyne with large shallow depression ( Fig. 98 View Figs 98–101 ). Seminal ducts long, forming loops anteriorly, their inlet parts thin and very weakly sclerotized; small accessory glands leading into terminal parts of the ducts; spermathecae large, bean-shaped ( Fig. 99 View Figs 98–101 ).
Material examined: Thaba-Tseka district: 3♀ Near Thaba-Tseka , 29°30'S 28°28'E, 2840 m, under rocks, grassland, 17.iii.2013, leg. J. van Niekerk ( NCA 2013 / 3113 ) GoogleMaps .
Distribution: Previously known only from the type locality, Golden Gate National Park in the eastern Free State Province, South Africa. Recorded from a single locality in central Lesotho ( Fig. 102 View Fig ).
Remarks: These specimens are clearly darker than the type specimens. The body is uniformly dark ( Fig. 72 View Figs 69–73 ), whereas specimens from South Africa have two light stripes on the thoracic part of the carapace.
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Thyenula armata Wesołowska, 2001
Wesołowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R. 2014 |
Thyenula armata Wesołowska, 2001: 261
Wesolowska 2001: 261 |