Hortipes auriga, BOSSELAERS & JOCQUÉ, 2000

BOSSELAERS, JAN & JOCQUÉ, RUDY, 2000, Hortipes, A Huge Genus Of Tiny Afrotropical Spiders (Araneae, Liocranidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (256), pp. 4-4 : 4-

Hortipes auriga , new species Figure 27a, b ; Map 3

TYPES: Male holotype: Nyungwe Forest, elev. 2100 m, Congo S02°30', E29°15' (March 1951; N. Leleup) ( MRAC 092.537 ) .

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large for the genus, bear a very long, whiplike embolus.

DIAGNOSIS: Males of H. auriga are recognized by the semicircular course of the MA in dorsolateral view in combination with the peculiar shape of the RTA.

MALE: Measurements. Total length 2.73; carapace 1.22 long, 0.97 wide; length of fe: I 0.95, II 1.00, III 0.81, IV 1.16. Leg spination. Fe: I rv 2; IV plt 0 rlt 0; ti: I, II vsp 6; mt: III plt 0 vt 0 rlt 0; IV plt 0–1 vt 1 rlt 0–1. Coloration. Carapace yellow, lighter at the fovea. Chelicerae yellow. Sternum and legs pale yellow. Abdomen yellowish white, with flat, blade­shaped central, anterior extension, pointing forward; cymbium fairly elongate and narrow as seen from above, with deep retrolateral concavity without series of long curved setae; sperm duct with wide basal part and not much narrower distal part with shallow turn just in front of embolus; MA solid, gradually tapered from thick base to sharp tip, semicircular in dorsolateral view, with two almost orthogonal bends in ventrolateral view; MA with a gutter along most of its length, giving the structure the appearance of an inrolled grass leaf, with one of the rims of the gutter sticking

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and thin, whiplike, looped over 540° (fig. 27a, b).

FEMALE: Unknown.

Figures

Map 3. Distribution of Hortipes species in the Kivu region. Hortipes amphibolus D, H. auriga., H. aurora •, H. echo O, H. falcatus ^, H. hastatus, H. horta V, H. lejeunei Δ, and H. narcissus v.

Fig. 27. a, b. Hortipes auriga, new species, male left palp, ventral and retrolateral views. c. Hortipes centralis, new species, epigyne. d–g. Hortipes tarachodes, new species. d, e. Epigynes. f, g. Male right palp, ventral and retrolateral views. h, i. Hortipes terminator, new species, male left palp, ventral and retrolateral views. Scale lines: 0.25 mm.