Smeringopus sambesicus Kraus, 1957

HUBER, BERNHARD A., 2012, Revision and cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical endemic genus Smeringopus Simon, 1890 (Araneae: Pholcidae), Zootaxa 3461 (1), pp. 1-138 : 128-130

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3461.1.1

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Smeringopus sambesicus Kraus, 1957
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Smeringopus sambesicus Kraus, 1957 View in CoL

Figs. 755–756 View FIGURES 745–756 , 764 View FIGURES 757–764 , 805–810 View FIGURES 805–810

Smeringopus sambesicus Kraus 1957: 228–229 View in CoL , figs. 28–33.

Types. Male holotype and 2♀ paratypes from Mozambique, Shire River [~ 17°42’S, 35°19’E], 1927 (H.B. Cott), holotype and 1♀ in MHNG, 1♀ in SMF (9813/1), cleared epigynum mounted on slide, examined GoogleMaps .

Misidentified paratype: 1♀ from Rwanda, no further data, in SMF ( RII 11727, ex RII 7771 ), examined .

Notes. The vial containing the holotype and 1♀ paratype also contained a male with both palps missing and without proximal cheliceral apophyses. The female paratype from Rwanda is a misidentified S. peregrinoides .

Diagnosis. Distinguished from similar species with proximal and distal cheliceral apophyses ( S. roeweri , S. carli , S. lubondai ) by shapes of procursus (distal blade-shaped apophyses, Figs. 805–807 View FIGURES 805–810 ) and bulb (processes of embolus, Figs. 808–810 View FIGURES 805–810 ); from S. roeweri and S. lubondai also by long frontal epigynal plate (very similar S. carli , cf. Figs. 761, 762 View FIGURES 757–764 ).

Male (holotype). Total body length 6.1, carapace width 1.9 (slightly deformed). Leg 1: 41.0 (11.1 + 0.8 + 10.7 + 16.3 + 2.1), tibia 2: 7.7, tibia 3: 5.7, tibia 4: 7.9; tibia 1 L/d: 48. Habitus similar S. carli (cf. Fig. 748 View FIGURES 745–756 ). Carapace ochre-yellow with brown median and indistinct lateral marks, clypeus without brown stripes (present in original description), legs monochromous ochre-yellow, abdomen ochre-gray with very indistinct pattern (probably artificially indistinct). Distance PME-PME 195 µm, diameter PME 175 µm, distance PME-ALE 80 µm, distance AME-AME 60 µm, diameter AME 150 µm. Ocular area slightly elevated, secondary eyes with ‘pseudo-lenses’; deep thoracic pit. Chelicerae with slender proximal apophyses as in S. carli (cf. Figs. 788, 789 View FIGURES 782–790 ), distal apophyses rather like in S. roeweri (cf. Figs. 771, 772 View FIGURES 765–773 ; more towards frontal and shorter than in S. carli ). Palps as in Figs. 755 and 756 View FIGURES 745–756 , coxa with distinct retrolateral apophysis and shallow wide furrow, trochanter barely modified, femur with shallow retrolateral furrow with ventrally distinct rim, procursus with distinctive distal blade-shaped processes ( Figs. 805–807 View FIGURES 805–810 ), bulb with distinctive embolus ( Figs. 808–810 View FIGURES 805–810 ). Legs without spines, few vertical hairs, with curved hairs on tibiae and metatarsi 1 and 2, retrolateral trichobothrium on tibia 1 at 3%; prolateral trichobothrium present on tibia 1.

Female. In general similar to male; tibia 1 in paratype from Shire River: 9.1; missing in other paratype examined. Epigynum very similar S. carli (cf. Figs. 761, 762 View FIGURES 757–764 ), also cleared internal view similar S. carli ( Fig. 764 View FIGURES 757–764 ).

Distribution. Only known from type locality in Mozambique ( Fig. 718 View FIGURE 718 ).

Material examined. MOZAMBIQUE: Shire River: 1♂ 2♀ types above .

MHNG

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

SMF

Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Pholcidae

Genus

Smeringopus

Loc

Smeringopus sambesicus Kraus, 1957

HUBER, BERNHARD A. 2012
2012
Loc

Smeringopus sambesicus

Kraus, O. 1957: 229
1957
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