Nyikoa limbe Huber 2007
Creators: name: Bernhard A. Huber
name: Philippe Le Gall
name: Jacques Francois Mavoungou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Nyikoa
Nyikoa limbe

description: 13. Nyikoa limbe Huber, 2007. Cameroon (Huber 2007, 2009), Congo D.R. (Huber 2007); newly recorded for Gabon and Equatorial Guinea (Fig. 26).
New records
CAMEROON: Central Region: 1 ♀ in USNM, 6.5 km SSE of Yaounde (3°48.4’N, 11°32.4’E), Mbalmayo Rd., patch of forest, 715 m a.s.l., 8 Jan. 1992 (J. Coddington et al.).
EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Bioko: 2 ♂♂ in CAS, Pico Basilé (3°41.7’N, 8°52.3’E), ca. 700 m a.s.l., at night, 17 Oct. 1998 (D.K. Dabney, D. Ubick). 1 ♀ in CAS, 3.5 km N of Luba (3°28.9’N, 8°35.0’E), swampy forest, 13 Oct. 1998 (M. Boko et al.).
GABON: Ogooué-Ivindo: 6 ♂♂, 20 ♀♀ in ZFMK (Ar 11895), Monts de Belinga, forest near Mayebout (1°06.7’N, 13°06.6’E), 500 m a.s.l., 13-14 Aug. 2011 (B.A. & S.R. Huber); 3 ♀♀ in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Gab 201), same data. 1 ♀ in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Gab 204), Monts de Belinga (0°58.7’N, 13°11.5’E), 860 m a.s.l., forest with large rocks, 13 Aug. 2011 (B.A. & S.R. Huber). 2 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀ in ZFMK (Ar 11896), near Djidji (0°12.8’N, 11°49.3’E), 470 m a.s.l., forest, 12 Aug. 2011 (B.A. & S.R. Huber); 2 ♀♀ in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Gab 238), same data. 2 ♀♀ in USNM, Makokou, CNRS [0°30.8’N, 12°48.2’E; not 0°04’N, 12°08’E as on label], Sep.-Nov. 1976 (A.L. Rypstra). 1 ♀ in ZFMK (Ar 11897), near Mohoba Mozeye (0°16.8’N, 13°20.9’E), 510 m a.s.l., forest along road, 17 Aug. 2011 (B.A. & S.R. Huber). 1 ♀ in ZFMK (Ar 11898), N Tébé (0°02.3’S, 13°40.9’E), 550 m a.s.l., forest along brook, 17 Aug. 2011 (B.A. & S.R. Huber). Haut Ogooué: 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, 1 juv. in ZFMK (Ar 11899), forest at Lékoni River (1°10.7’S, 13°32.3’E), 305 m a.s.l., 18 Aug. 2011 (B.A. & S.R. Huber). Ngounié: 1 ♀ in ZFMK (Ar 11900), Massif du Chaillu, ‘site 3’, between Mimongo & Yéno (1°38.1’S, 11°32.6’E), 570-650 m a.s.l., forest, 26 Aug. 2011 (B.A. & S.R. Huber). 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ in ZFMK (Ar 11901), near Moulandoufouala (1°38.1’S, 10°42.5’E), 110 m a.s.l., forest along road, 27 Aug. 2011 (B.A. & S.R. Huber); 1 juv. in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Gab 185), same data.
CONGO D.R.: Bas Congo: ~ 45 ♂♂, 43 ♀♀ + juvs (8 vials) in MRAC (parts of 224303-307, 309-311), Luki Forest Reserve [5°37.3’S, 13°05.9’E], fogging in old secondary rainforest, 17-25 Sep. 2007 (D. De Bakker, J.P. Michiels); 76 ♂♂, 47 ♀♀ + juvs (8 vials) in MRAC (parts of 224312-319), same data but fogging in primary rainforest, 26 Sept-4 Oct. 2007; 7 ♂♂, 11 ♀♀ (6 vials) in MRAC (222207, 229, 994, 223096 part, 223123, 684), same locality, beating in old secondary rainforest, 17-25 Sep. 2007 (W. Hubau, D. De Bakker, J.P. Michiels); 12 ♂♂, 13 ♀♀, 2 juvs (9 vials) in MRAC (221533, 222026 part, 222061, 222798, 223635 part, 223587, 223732, 223819, 223831), same locality, beating in primary rainforest, 6-11 Nov. 2006, 26 Sep.-3 Oct. 2007 (D. De Bakker, J.P. Michiels); 1♂ in MRAC (221546), same locality, sieving, 7 Nov. 2006 (D. De Bakker, J.P. Michiels).
description: Published as part of Bernhard A. Huber, Philippe Le Gall & Jacques Francois Mavoungou, 2014, Pholcid spiders from the Lower Guinean region of Central Africa: an overview, with descriptions of seven new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), pp. 1-46 in European Journal of Taxonomy 81 (81) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.81, http://zenodo.org/record/830852