Hovops
Creators: name: Artigas, Sandra Mónica Rodriguez
name: Corronca, Jose Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Selenopidae
Hovops

description: Key to species of Hovops (only females)
This completes the key provided by Corronca and Rodriguez Artigas (2011) and incorporates the new species described here.
1. Spiders with 6 or fewer ventral spines on tibiae I–II and not more than 4 ventral spines on metatarsi I–II................. 2
– Spiders with more than 6 ventral spines on tibiae I–II and up to 6 ventral spines on metatarsi I–II...................... 7
2. Epigyne with MF represented as a cavity.................................................................... 3
– Epigyne with MF represented as a sclerite................................................................. 4
3. Epigyne sub-triangular, CO posterior to midline of epigyne, widely separated, EP well developed, elongated, postero-lateral, long and slender CD going into centre of vulva; multilobulated spermathecae with bilobed head (figs 7a–c, Corronca & Rodri- guez Artigas 2011).................................................................... H. mariensis (Strand)
– Epigyne sub-quadrangular, CO anterior to epigyne midline and EP developed, sub-circular and in anterior-lateral position; short and divergent CD in midline, spermathecae multilobulated with largest number of lobes in middle portion (figs 4e–f, Corronca & Rodriguez Artigas 2011).............................................. H. madagascariensis (Vinson)
4. MF of small to medium size............................................................................. 5
– MF covering almost entire epigyne; LL of epigyne cordiform, approaching at midline; anterior CO, long and slender CD and
small spermathecae in posterior position (figs 8d-e, Corronca and Rodriguez Artigas 2011)............ H. pusillus (Simon) 5. Sub-rhomboidal MF with a sharp and elongated posterior apex, LL of epigyne well developed and near midline; anterior EP situated at the sides of the CO (Figs 3–5).................................................. H. antakarana sp. n.
– MF, LL, CO and EP otherwise.......................................................................... 6
6. Sub-circular MF; EP in midline; CO near in anterior position; CD initially straight, then divergent (figs 5d–e, Corronca and Rodriguez Artigas 2011)................................................ H. merina Corronca & Rodriguez Artigas
– Sub-pentagonal MF; EP posterior to midline, with anterior and separated CO; CD diverging from beginning (figs 2e–f, Corronca & Rodriguez Artigas 2011)....................................... H. betsileo Corronca & Rodriguez Artigas
7. MF anterior to the midline of the epigyne.................................................................. 8
– Sub-hexagonal and elongated MF posterior to midline of epigyne; EP separated in midline and CO separated in anterior position of epigyne (figs 6d–e, Corronca & Rodriguez Artigas 2011).................................. H. legrasi (Simon)
8. EP in the middle portion of the epigyne.................................................................... 9
– EP behind the middle portion of the epigyne.............................................................. 10
9. Sub-pentagonal MF anterior to midline; EP widely separated in midline of epigyne by more than a width of the MF, and CO anterior and close together (figs 3f–g, Corronca & Rodriguez Artigas 2011)........ H. lidiae Corronca & Rodriguez Artigas
– Sub-hexagonal MF (Fig. 25); EP separated by less than a width of the MF, and anterior CO scarcely separated (Figs 25–26)......................................................................................... H. menabe sp. n.
10. Sub-circular MF (Fig. 32); anterior CO separated by more than the half of the width of the MF (Fig. 33); oblique EP (Figs 32– 33); CD ducts thin in the beginning and later enlarged forming a large internal lobe and external walls nearly straight (Figs 34, 38)...................................................................................... H. vezo sp. n.
– Ovoid MF with the greater cross axis (Fig. 15); anterior CO separated by less than half the width of the MF (Fig. 17); straight EP (Figs 15–16); CD thin in the beginning and later with a deep notch that widens to form a large internal lobe and external walls curved (Fig. 17)..................................................................... H. ikongo sp. n.
description: Published as part of Artigas, Sandra Mónica Rodriguez & Corronca, Jose Antonio, 2014, New species and distribution records of selenopid spiders of the genus Hovops Benoit in Madagascar (Araneae, Selenopidae), pp. 547-557 in Zootaxa 3780 (3) on pages 556-557, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3780.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/228614