Pseudocorinna personata Jocqué & Bosselaers 2011, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Jocqué, Rudy
name: Bosselaers, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Corinnidae
Pseudocorinna
Pseudocorinna personata

description: PSEUDOCORINNA PERSONATA SP. NOV.  (FIGS 34A, B, 39B, 40)  
 Type material: Holotype: female: CAMEROON: Chabal Mbabo, south-west. Slope, 07°25′N, 12°49′E, 9.iv.1983, 1600 m, gallery forest, Bosmans & Van Stalle (MRAC 162250).   
 Diagnosis: Females of P. personata are recognized by the long, pointed posterior lip of the epigyne.   
 Etymology: The species name is an adjective referring to the mask-like appearance of the epigyne. ‘Persona’ means mask in Latin.   
 Description: Female (holotype, MRAC 162250). Total l 5.40.   
Carapace chestnut brown, covered by tiny warts forming a network with polygonal meshes. Carapace l: 2.60; w: 2.15. Sternum warted, l: 1.20; w: 1.40. Abdomen greyish brown, without do scutum. Legs orange-brown, covered by fine warts.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-0-1-1 rlv 0-0-0-0-1; III do 0-0-1; IV do 0-1-1; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2- 2-2-2-2-2-2; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; III rlv 0-1-0; IV ve 1-1-1.  
Epigyne (Figs 34A, B, 39B): with large, triangular, posterior lip. Internal structure visible in transparency. Copulatory openings just in front of centre. Copulatory ducts comma shaped, leading into small, widely separated spermathecae at level of copulatory openings. Small lobate ducts behind spermathecae.  
Male unknown.  
 Known geographical distribution: Cameroon (Fig. 40).   
 PSEUDOCORINNA RUTILA SIMON, 1910   
(FIGS 35A–D, 41)  
 Pseudocorinna rutila Simon, 1910: 385.   
 Type material: Lectotype (here designated): male: GUINEA-BISSAU (MNHN) (examined).   
Paralectotype (here designated): female: together with lectotype (examined).  
 Diagnosis: Males of P. rutila are recognized by the broad, obliquely truncate RTA and the broad proximal part of the tegulum, of which the frontal margin has a rounded and a pointed extremity. Females are characterized by the epigyne with broadly rounded posterior margin.   
 Description: Male (lectotype, MNHN). Total l 4.95.   
Carapace chestnut brown, covered by tiny warts forming a network with polygonal meshes. Carapace l: 2.50; w: 2.10. Fovea deep, clearly delimited. Sternum warted, l: 1.10; w: 1.25. Abdomen greyish brown, with a large, brown dorsal scutum covering 80% of do abdominal surface area.  
Legs orange-brown, covered by fine warts.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-0-1-1 rlv 0-0-0-0-1; III do 0-0-1; IV do 0-0-1; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2- 2-2-2-2-2-2; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; III ve 0-2-0; IV ve 1-1-1.  
Female (paralectotype, MNHN). Total l 5.50.  
Carapace as in male, l: 2.25; w: 1.88. Sternum warted, l: 1.10; w: 1.23. Abdomen greyish brown, without do scutum. Legs orange-brown, covered by fine warts.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-0-1-1 rlv 0-0-0-0-1; III do 0-0-1; IV do 0-0-1; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2- 2-2-2-2-2-2; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; III ve 0-2-0; IV ve 1-1-1.  
Epigyne (Fig. 35C, D): largely extended over epigastric fold, with tiny central depression just in front of posterior margin. Internal structure visible in transparency with three dark rounded structures on either side. Spermathecae kidney shaped, separated by less than their length, longitudinal axes diverging.  
 Known geographical distribution: Guinea Bissau (Fig. 41).
description: Published as part of Jocqué, Rudy & Bosselaers, Jan, 2011, Revision of Pseudocorinna Simon and a new related genus (Araneae: Corinnidae): two more examples of spider templates with a large range of complexity in the genitalia, pp. 271-350 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162 (2) on pages 313-315, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00679.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5440406