Capobula Haddad & Jin & Platnick & Booysen 2021, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Haddad, Charles R.
name: Jin, Chi
name: Platnick, Norman I.
name: Booysen, Ruan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Trachelidae
Capobula

description: Key to the species of Capobula gen. nov.
1 Females ............................................................................................. 2
– Males (males of C. neethlingi spec. nov. and C. ukhahlamba spec. nov. unknown).................................. 6
2 Abdomen grey, with cream inverted Y-shaped marking dorsally (Fig. 10); epigyne with large circular depressions incorporating copulatory openings (Fig. 73)........................................................ C. ukhahlamba spec. nov.
– Abdomen uniformly grey dorsally, without marking (e.g. Fig. 3); epigyne with curved epigynal ridges incorporating copulatory openings............................................................................................ 3
3 Copulatory openings in anterolateral corners of faint M-shaped ridges (Fig. 54); bursae clearly much larger than primary spermathecae (Fig. 55)................................................................... C. capensis spec. nov.
– Copulatory openings in small C- or J-shaped ridges (e.g. Fig. 59); bursae same size or smaller than primary spermathecae (e.g. Fig. 60)............................................................................................. 4
4 Anterior margin of ridges incorporating copulatory openings in same transverse plane as anterior margin of primary spermathecae; initial 2/3 of copulatory ducts before posterior bend heavily sclerotized and darker than last 1/3 (Fig. 55)................................................................................................ C. infima comb. nov.
– Anterior margin of primary spermathecae clearly in front of anterior margin of ridges incorporating copulatory openings; only initial 1/3 of copulatory ducts before posterior bend heavily sclerotized, last 2/3 clearly lighter in colour (Figs 65, 71)...... 5
5 Ridges incorporating copulatory openings large and almost transverse to longitudinal plane of epigyne (Fig. 71); heads of bursae converging (Fig. 72) (South Africa: Western Cape, Fig. 75)............................... C. neethlingi spec. nov.
– Ridges incorporating copulatory openings small and obliquely orientated, at 45 degrees to longitudinal plane of epigyne (Fig. 65); heads of bursae diverging (Fig. 66) (eastern half of South Africa, Fig. 75).................... C. montana spec. nov.
6 Embolus as wide as 1/2 of tegulum width at midpoint, tip sharply curved and almost transverse to longitudinal plane of palp (Fig. 62)................................................................................................................................................................................ C. infima comb. nov.
– Embolus narrow, width less than ¼ of tegulum width at midpoint, tip directed disto-retrolaterally (Figs 57, 68)…7
7 Embolus short, with stout tip (Fig. 57); femoral apophysis a sharp retrolateral spike (Fig. 58) (South Africa: Western Cape, Fig. 75)................................................................................ C. capensis spec. nov.
– Embolus longer, with slender tip (Fig. 68); femoral apophysis a stout ventral lobe (Fig. 69) (eastern half of South Africa, Fig. 75)................................................................................ C. montana spec. nov.
description: Published as part of Haddad, Charles R., Jin, Chi, Platnick, Norman I. & Booysen, Ruan, 2021, Capobula gen. nov., a new Afrotropical dark sac spider genus related to Orthobula Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Trachelidae), pp. 41-71 in Zootaxa 4942 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4942.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4596097