Crinopseudoa otus 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
Crinopseudoa
Crinopseudoa otus

description: CRINOPSEUDOA OTUS SP. NOV.  (FIGS 46C, F, G–I, 56A–D, 59H, 62)  
 Type material: Holotype: male: GUINEA: Forêt Classée de Ziama, 08°24′N, 09°17′W, 10.vii.1998, rain forest, pitfalls, Flomo D. (MRAC 226414).   
Paratypes: same data as holotype: 1 ♂: 14.viii.1998 (MRAC 226413); 1 ♂: 22.iv.1998 (MRAC 226415). LIBERIA: all from Bong Range Forest, 06°49′N, 10°17′W, 8.iv.2005, pitfalls in rain forest, Flomo D. (MRAC 216628); 1 ♀: 8.iv.2005 (MRAC 216628); 2 ♂: 26.iii.2005 (MRAC 216724); 1 ♂: 13.iii.2005 (MRAC 216747); 1 ♂: 26.iii.2005 (MRAC 216761); 2 ♂, 2♀: 26.iii.2005 (MRAC 216775); 1 ♀: 28.ii.2005 (MRAC 216791); 1 ♂: 15.ii.2005 (MRAC 216859); 1 ♂: 30.v.2005 (MRAC 216927); 1 ♂: 12.vi.2005 (MRAC 216955); 1 ♀: 2005 (MRAC 217104); 1 ♀: 8.vii.2005 (MRAC 217119); 1 ♀: 26.iii.2005 (MRAC 217949); 1 ♂: viii.2005 (MRAC 218148); 1 ♀: 21.iv.2005 (MRAC 216675); 1 ♂: 21.iv.2005 (MRAC 216678); 1 ♀: 26.iii.2005 (MRAC 216703); 1 ♀: 12.vi.2005 (MRAC 216946); 1 ♀: 8.iv.2005 (MRAC 217950).  
 Diagnosis: Males of P. otus are easily recognized by the large trifid prong on the proximal part of the tegulum. Females are recognized by the epigyne with frontal recurved depression, and oblong structures with two longitudinal stripes near posterior margin.   
 Etymology: The species name is a noun in apposition; Otus is another giant from Greek mythology who wanted to storm Mount Olympos together with his brother Ephialtes.   
 Description: Male (holotype, MRAC 226414). Total l 4.50.   
Carapace chestnut brown, covered with dispersed tiny warts. Carapace l: 2.10; w: 1.85. Fovea deep, clearly delimited. Sternum smooth, l: 1.00; w: 1.03. Abdomen greyish brown, with a large, brown dorsal scutum covering 60% of do abdominal surface area.  
Legs orange-brown, not warted. Chelicerae as in Figure 46G–I.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-2; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; IV plv 0-1-0; mt: I ve 2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2; III pl 0-1-0 ve 0-2-0; IV pl 1-0-0 rl 1-0-0 ve 2-0-2. Bothria as in Figure 46C. Tarsal organ as in Figure 46F.  
Male palp (Fig. 56A, B): RTA fairly broad with parallel sides and suddenly tapered extremity. PTA large, with rounded tip, situated far backwards. Embolus with broad curved basal part and fairly short, strongly curved, thin, distal part. MA cupshaped; FC small, largely hidden by embolus; proximal part of tegulum with large posterior extension, curved forward, trifid at tip. Main part of proximal tegulum with triangular retrolateral extension and small tooth at frontal edge. PAPT large, triangular.  
Female (MRAC 217119). Total l 4.10.  
Carapace as in male, l: 1.80; w: 1.50. Sternum orange, smooth, l: 0.86; w: 0.90.  
Abdomen greyish brown, without do scutum. Legs orange-brown, not warted.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-0-1-1 rlv 0-0-0-0-1; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; III plv 0-1-0; IV pl 0-1-0 rl 0-1-0 plv 0-1-0; mt: I ve 2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2; III pl 1-0-0 ve 0-2-0; IV pl 1-0-0 rl 1-0-0 ve 1-0-2.  
Epigyne (Fig. 56C, D): broad dark area with rounded semicircular pit at anterior margin; two large striped structures visible in transparency near posterior margin. With large spherical spermathecae laterally and longitudinal lobate ducts in the centre.  
 Known geographical distribution: Guinea (Fig. 62).
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 340-341, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00679.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5440406