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

description: Loxosceles dejagerae sp. nov.
(FIGS 2, 21)
Types. SOUTH AfRIcA: WESTERN CApE PROvINcE, ♀ HOLOTYpE, GAMkASkLOOf NATURE RESERvE, 33°22’S, 21°42’E, 9.V.1996, M. dE JAGER LEG. (AcAT 96/590). PARATYpES. EASTERN CApE PROvINcE, 1♂, 5♀ MIddELbURG, 31°30’S, 25°01’E, 15.III.1990, 1.III.1999, 7.II.2006, 3.III.2004, M. dE JAGER LEG. (AcAT 99/69, 2007/1062) (MNBA 976, 9050, 9593); 1♀ AND 2 IMM., WILLOWMORE, UITSPAN, 33°31’S, 23°42’E, 27–28.II.2008, L.N. LOTz LEG. (NMBA 11580); NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE, 1♂, 1♀, VICTORIA WEST, BIESjIESFONTEIN, 31°24’S, 23°07’E, 9.X.1989, R. CONROY LEG., 14.X.1997, A. LEROY LEG. (ACAT 91 /448, 2007/1620); WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE, 3♀, GAMKASKLOOF NATURE RESERVE, DIE HEL, 33°22’S, 21°42’E, 1.VIII.2002, Z. VAN DER WALT LEG. (ACAT 2 002/20); 1♂, PRINCE ALBERT, SWARTbERG PASS, 33°21’S, 22°03’E, 24.I.2004, M. dE JAGER LEG. (NMBA 10307).
Etymology. THE SpEcIES NAME IS A MATRONYM fOR MARIE dE JAGER, cOLLEcTOR Of THE TYpE SpEcIMEN.
Diagnosis. FEMALE MOST SIMILAR TO L. simillima (FIG. 33); dIffERS fROM THIS SpEcIES IN bOTH cOpULATORY TUbES bEING WAvY. FEMALE cOpULATORY TUbES pROcEEd MEdIALLY ENdING IN SMALL ROUNd SpERMATHEcAE (FIG. 21). MALE pALpAL TIbIA ALMOST AS LONG AS cYMbIUM ANd cYMbIUM NOT MUcH LONGER THAN pULp bULb, MOST SIMILAR TO L. spinulosa (FIG. 17); dIffERING IT IN THE EMbOLUS bEING ROUNdEd ANd NOT SHARp EdGEd ON THE bASAL RIdGE (FIG. 2).
Description. Female: (N = 10): TL = 6.45 (5.1–8.7); CL = 2.80 (2.2–3.7); CW = 2.55 (2.1–3.5); CLL = 0.37 (0.30–0.45). AME-LE 0.1; 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, SHORT, MEdIALLY pROcEEdING cOpULATORY TUbES ON EAcH SIdE, NExT TO EAcH OTHER AT THE bASE, ENdING IN SMALL SpERMATHEcAE, SLIGHTLY LARGER IN dIAMETER THAN THE TUbES (FIG. 21). LEG fORMULA IV:II:I:III. LEG MEASUREMENTS: I: fEMUR 6.9, pATELLA 1.1, TIbIA 6.8, METATARSUS 6.7, TARSUS 1.4, TOTAL 22.9; II: 7.3, 1.2, 7.5, 7.7, 1.4, 25.1; III: 6.5, 1.1, 5.8, 6.5, 1.2, 21.1; IV: 7.5, 1.1, 7.0, 8.2, 1.4, 25.2. PALp: fEMUR 1.0, pATELLA 0.4, TIbIA 0.8, cYMbIUM 1.2, TOTAL 3.4.
Male: (N = 3): TL = 4.67 (3.6–5.5); CL = 2.60 (2.0–3.2); CW = 2.53 (2.0–3.0); CLL = 0.35 (0.3–0.4). AME-LE 0.1; LARGEST EYE dIAMETER 0.2. COLOUR ANd MARkINGS AS IN fEMALE. PALpAL TIbIA ALMOST AS LONG AS cYMbIUM ANd cYMbIUM NOT MUcH LONGER THAN pULp bULb; EMbOLUS SLIGHTLY fLATTENEd, cURvEd IN A HOOk-SHApE ANd SLIGHTLY LONGER THAN bULb, WITH A ROUNdEd ANd NOT SHARp EdGEd bASAL RIdGE (FIG. 2). LEG fORMULA II:I:IV:III. LEG MEASUREMENTS: I: fEMUR 9.5, pATELLA 1.2, TIbIA 11.0, METATARSUS 11.5, TARSUS 1.7, TOTAL 34.9; II: 10.8, 1.2, 12.3, 12.9, 1.7, 38.9; III: 8.6, 1.1, 8.2, 9.8, 1.5, 29.2; IV: 9.8, 1.2, 9.6, 12.2, 1.7, 34.5. PALp: fEMUR 1.0, pATELLA 0.4, TIbIA 0.6, cYMbIUM 0.7, TOTAL 2.7.
Natural History. COLLEcTEd fROM xERIc NAMA KAROO, fROM UNdER ROckS ANd IN bUILdINGS. Distribution. SOUTHERN SOUTH AfRIcA (FIG. 39).
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 pages 478-479, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1040541