Loxosceles griffinae Lotz 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Lotz, L. N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Sicariidae
Loxosceles
Loxosceles griffinae

description: Loxosceles griffinae sp. nov.
(FIGS 5, 23)
Types. NAMIbIA: ♀ HOLOTYpE fROM OkOkATUWO, 17°27’S, 12°32’E, E. GRIffEN LEG. 7–11.V.1991 (SMN 42608). PARATYpES. KAOkOLANd, OpUWO, BAYNES MOUNTAINS, 1♀, EpEMbE, 17°05’S, 13°02’E, 20.IV.2006, 1♀, OkATUvI WATER pOOLS, 17°08’S, 12°58’E, 23.IV.2006, 1♀, OTUHUANGA, 17°06’S, 12°57’E, 22.IV.2006, EdUVENTURES 8 LEG. (SMN 47265, 47272, 47268); 1♂ AND 1♀, OPUWO, BAOBAB II, NO SPECIFIC LOCALITY, MAP 1713DD, 18.VII.1995, E. MARAIS LEG. (SMN 43474); 1♀, OPUWO, OMBAzUFONTEIN, 17°48’S, 13°45’E, 25–28.IV.1996, E. GRIFFIN LEG. (SMN 43520).
Etymology. THE SpEcIES NAME IS A MATRONYM fOR ERIN GRIffIN, cOLLEcTOR Of THE TYpE SpEcIMEN.
Diagnosis. FEMALE SpERMATHEcAE cONSIST Of TWO ObLONG SAcS ON LONG cOpULATORY TUbES THAT pROcEEd MEdIALLY fROM EAcH SIdE TO ALMOST MEET MEdIALLY; dIffER fROM ALL OTHER SpEcIES IN THIS RESpEcT (FIG. 23). MALE pALpAL TIbIA ALMOST AS LONG AS cYMbIUM ANd cYMbIUM NOT MUcH LONGER THAN pULp bULb, MOST SIMILAR TO L. pilosa (FIG. 11); dIffERING fROM L. pilosa IN THE bROAd bASAL pART Of THE EMbOLUS bEING SHORTER ANd THE ApIcAL pART bEING MORE cURvEd (FIG. 5).
Description. Female: (N = 6): TL = 7.03 (6.4–7.8); CL = 2.78 (2.5–3.2); CW = 2.42 (2.2–2.8); CLL = 0.40 (0.35–0.45). AME-LE 0.05; LARGEST EYE dIAMETER 0.15. CARApAcE YELLOW-bROWN, dARkER pARS cEpHALIcA ANd ALONG THE EdGES; STERNUM LIGHT YELLOW-bROWN; LEGS bROWN; pALpS MOSTLY LIGHT bROWN, WITH dARkER bROWN TARSUS. AbdOMEN LIGHT YELLOW WITH bROWN MARkINGS ALONG THE SIdES ANd dOWN THE cENTERLINE. INTERNAL GENITALIA WITH TWO, LONG, MEdIALLY pROcEEdING cOpULATORY TUbES ON EAcH SIdE, NExT TO EAcH OTHER AT THE bASE, ENdING IN SMALL ObLONG SpERMATHEcAE, SLIGHTLY LARGER IN dIAMETER THAN THE TUbES (FIG. 23). LEG fORMULA II:I:IV:III. LEG MEASUREMENTS: I: fEMUR 6.8, pATELLA 1.0, TIbIA 6.5, METATARSUS 6.0, TARSUS 1.2, TOTAL 21.5; II: 6.4, 1.0, 6.4, 6.5, 1.3, 21.6; III: 5.5, 0.95, 4.9, 5.5, 1.1, 17.95; IV: 6.2, 1.0, 5.8, 6.4, 1.4, 20.8. PALp: fEMUR 0.8, pATELLA 0.4, TIbIA 0.6, cYMbIUM 1.0, TOTAL 2.8.
Male: (N = 1): TL = 5.0; CL = 2.5; CW = 2.4; CLL = 0.3. AME-LE 0.05; LARGEST EYE dIAMETER 0.15. COLOUR ANd MARkINGS AS IN fEMALE. PALpAL TIbIA ALMOST AS LONG AS cYMbIUM ANd cYMbIUM NOT MUcH LONGER THAN pULp bULb; EMbOLUS ALMOST TWIcE AS LONG AS bULb WITH, SHORT, bROAd SEcTION AT bASE; THIN ApIcAL pART LONG ANd dISTALLY HOOkEd (FIG. 5). LEG fORMULA UNkNOWN. TIbIA TO TARSUS Of LEG II MISSING ON bOTH SIdES. LEG MEASUREMENTS: I: fEMUR 9.7, pATELLA 1.0, TIbIA 11.1, METATARSUS 10.8, TARSUS 1.5, TOTAL 34.1; II: 9.7, 1.0,?,?,?,?; III: 7.2, 0.9, 7.0, 7.3, 1.2, 23.6; IV: 8.2, 1.0, 7.8, 9.5, 1.5, 28.0. PALp: fEMUR 0.8, pATELLA 0.35, TIbIA 0.45, cYMbIUM 0.65, TOTAL 2.25.
Natural History. COLLEcTEd fROM SAvANNA, IN pITfALL TRApS ANd cAvES.
Distribution. NORTHWESTERN NAMIbIA (FIG. 40).
description: Published as part of Lotz, L. N., 2017, An update on the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Afrotropical region, with description of seven new species, pp. 475-494 in Zootaxa 4341 (4) on page 480, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1040541