Crinopseudoa leiothorax 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 leiothorax

description: CRINOPSEUDOA LEIOTHORAX SP. NOV.  (FIGS 55A–D, 59G, 61)  
 Type material: Holotype: male: GUINEA: Forêt Classée de Ziama, 08°24′N, 09°17′W, 14.vi.1998, rain forest, pitfalls, Flomo, D. (MRAC 226409).   
Paratypes: All same data as holotype: 1 ♀: 4.xi.1998 (MRAC 217952); 1 ♂: 18.v.1998 (MRAC 226410); 2 ♂: 5.v.1998 (MRAC 226411); 1 ♀: 18.viii.1998 (MRAC 226412).  
 Diagnosis: Males of C. leiothorax are characterized by the retrolateral cymbial apophysis, the large conductor encircling the tegulum, and the thin, sclerotized, hook-shaped embolus. Females of C. leiothorax are recognized by the shape of the epigyne with frontal semicircular fold and shallow central depression; the oblong structures along the posterior margin do not show longitudinal stripes in transparency.   
 Etymology: The species name refers to the relatively smooth carapace (‘LEIOς’ = smooth in Greek).   
 Description: Male (holotype, MRAC 226409). Total l 4.50.   
Carapace yellow-brown, covered by dispersed, tiny weak warts. Carapace l: 2.00; w: 1.80. Fovea deep, clearly delimited. Sternum smooth, l: 1.00; w: 1.10. Abdomen greyish brown, with a weak, yellow-brown dorsal scutum covering 15% of do abdominal surface area.  
Legs yellow-brown, not warted.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-1 do 0-1-0; II do 0-1-0; III do 0-1-0; IV do 0-1-0; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; III pl 0-1-1 ve 0-2-0; IV pl 0-1-1 rl 0-1-1 ve 0-2-0; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; III pl 0-1-0 ve 2-0-2; IV pl 0-1-0 rl 0-1-0 ve 2-0-2.  
Male palp (Fig. 55A, B): RTA flattened, apically narrowed into a dorsally recurved hook at ve end of tip. PTA absent. FC very large, ribbon-shaped, encircling most of tegulum.  
Embolus inserted centrally, long, thin, and hookshaped. Basal part of tegulum not enlarged but with flattened, trapezoidal CAPT covering base of FC; PAPT inconspicuous.  
Female (paratype, MRAC 226412). Total l 4.65.  
Carapace as in male, l: 1.90; w: 1.65. Sternum smooth, l: 1.00; w: 1.10.  
Abdomen greyish brown, without do scutum. Legs yellow-brown, not warted.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-0-1-1 rlv 0-0-0-0-1; IV do 0-1-1; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; III pl 0-1-0 plv 0-0-1; IV pl 0-1-0 rl 0-1-0 ve 0-2-0; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; III pl 0-1-0 ve 2-0-2; IV pl 0-1-0 rl 0-1-0 ve 2-0-2.  
Epigyne (Figs 55C, D, 59G): with semicircular fold in front; internal structure visible in transparency. Copulatory openings near centre; copulatory ducts intricately wound, ending in widely separate spermathecae. Without lobate ducts.  
 Known geographical distribution: Guinea (Fig. 61).
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 338-339, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00679.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5440406