Parabomis levanderi Kulczyński, 1901

Dippenaar-Schoeman, Anna S. & Foord, Stefan H., 2020, Revision of the Afrotropical crab-spider genus Parabomis Kulczyński, 1901 (Araneae: Thomisidae), Zootaxa 4899 (1), pp. 161-174 : 165-166

Parabomis levanderi Kulczyński, 1901

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Parabomis levanderii Kulczyński, 1901: 3 , 30, figs 25–27 (Holotype ³: ERITREA: Ghinda , 15°27’N, 39°05’E, leg. K.M. Levander, FMNH—examined).

Diagnosis. Males resemble those of P. martini in colour and the shield-like abdomen, but in P. levanderi the dorsum has two longitudinal series of black spots dorsally in depressions, which are absent in P. levanderi . Parabomis levanderi is the only male where the palp has the RTA two-pronged, with the one lobe longer and slightly hooked ( Fig. 9 ).

Description. Holotype male. Measurements: TL 1.9; CL 1.1; CW 1.1. Legs: I 2.17 (0.65, 0.35, 0.47, 0.36, 0.34); II 2.14 (0.65, 0.34, 0.46, 0.36, 0.33); III (missing); IV 1.64 (0.52, 0.29, 0.34, 0.23, 0.26). Carapace chestnut brown, with dark patches laterally; posterior declivity yellow; clypeus mottled, with paler longitudinal infusions; carapace as wide as long, with deep posterior declivity; edge of declivity bearing numerous small tubercles; integument with scattered tubercles, each bearing club-shaped seta. Mouthparts and chelicerae paler than carapace. Sternum dark reddish brown, with narrow white margin, integument granulose. Legs: coxae dark; trochanters yellow; anterior femora black; patella yellow; anterior tibiae dark reddish brown; tarsi dark red; each segment distinctly rimmed with white. Abdomen: dorsum white, with shield-like dark area. Male palp with small fused VTA, RTA two-pronged ( Fig. 9 ).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality ( Fig. 32 ).

Figures

FIGURES 4–9. Parabomis elsae sp. nov. (4–8) and Parabomis levanderi Kulczyński, 1901 (9). 4 Male habitus, dorsal view; 5 Female habitus, dorsal view; 6, 9 Left male palp, ventral view; 7 Epigyne, ventral view; 8 Epigyne, dorsal view. Scales: 1 mm.

FIGURES 31–32. 31 Records of the previously known Parabomis species, P. levanderi Kulczyński, 1901 (red circles) and P. martini Lessert, 1919 (blue triangles); 32 Records of new Parabomis species in the Afrotropical Region.