Palindroma obmoimiombo, gen. et sp. nov
Creators: name: Rudy Jocqué
name: Arnaud Henrard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Zodariidae
Palindroma
Palindroma obmoimiombo

description: Palindroma obmoimiombo gen. et sp. nov.
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Figs 11 A–E, 12 A–D, 13 A–B, 16
Diagnosis
The male of P. obmoimiombo gen. et sp. nov. is easily recognized by its colour, the inconspicuous cheliceral lamina and the characters of the palp: the unmodified patella, the presence of a dorsolateral tibial apophysis and a bifid RTA, the large subtegulum with ridges and posterior swelling and the thin embolus lying in a groove of the tegulum.
Etymology
The species name is an arbitrary combination of letters forming a noun in apposition and containing ‘miombo’, the type of woodland in which the type material was collected.
Material examined
Holotype
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: ♂, Mikembo Sanctuary near Lubumbashi, 11°28’ S, 27°39’ E, 8 Nov. 2010, 1180 m, miombo woodland, by hand, R. Jocqué (MRAC 241633).
Paratype
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: 1 ♂, Mikembo Sanctuary near Lubumbashi, 11°28’ S, 27°39’ E, 1–31 Oct. 2010, 1180 m, miombo woodland, by hand, Cemdika & Jenny (MRAC 241634).
Other material
None.
Description
Male (holotype)
Total length 7.46; carapace 3.91 long, 2.84 wide, narrowed to 1.56 in eye region.
Colour: carapace black with numerous silvery hairs (Fig. 11 A–C); chelicerae dark brown with white setae in proximal half, medium brown with dark setae in distal half and white distomesal part (Fig. 11 D); sternum orange; coxae and trochanters brownish orange, femora dark brown to black with numerous white setae; patellae and tibiae dark brown with few white setae; metatarsi and tarsi medium brown (Fig. 11 E); abdomen dark grey with silvery setae, four reddish apodemes, three anastomosing pale spots in front of brownish spinnerets; sides dark grey with few silvery setae and reddish frontal apodeme; venter dark grey with two rows of small apodemes and a few near sides; orange in front of epigastric fold.
Carapace granulated, profile almost flat.
Eyes: AME: 0.13; ALE: 0.15; ALE-ALE: 0.31; AME-ALE: 0.08; PME: 0.13; PLE: 0.12; PME-PME: 0.10; PME-PLE: 0.25. Clypeus 0.64 or 4.3 times width of ALE.
Chilum double, each sclerite 0.10 high, 0.20 wide; no setae. Chelicerae with mesal side flat, with short spines; distomesal membranous swelling, absent. Sternum shield-shaped, 1.49 long, 1.42 wide, produced between posterior coxae.
Legs: anterior tarsi shorter than metatarsi.
Spination
FPTMtId1-pl2v2-2IId1-pl2v2dw3IIIpl1d3pl3d1rl1pl3d3rl 2v 1-2-28disp dw5IVpl1d3pl1d1rl1pl3d3rl 2v 1-1-211disp dw5
Leg measurements
FPTMttTotalI2.170.981.961.471.267.84II1.890.911.331.401.126.65III1.681.051.261.611.266.86IV2.241.191.752.311.408.89
Epiandrum well developed but without membranous patches.
Male palp (Figs 12 A–D, 13A–B): patella not modified or enlarged; tibia with ventral bunch of long setae, sharp dorsolateral apophysis pointing outward, and RTA, concavity between the two; RTA distally bifid with pointed inferior part and lamellar, truncated superior part; cymbium with basolateral flange and seven prolateral spines; subtegulum large and prominent, with three longitudinal ridges, posterior part swollen; tegulum with two parts, centre membranous; distal part with transverse groove and knob pointing back; embolus thin and whip-shaped; distal extremity in tegular groove.
Female
Unknown.
Distribution
Known from Mikembo Sanctuary near Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Fig. 16).
description: Published as part of Rudy Jocqué & Arnaud Henrard, 2015, The new spider genus Palindroma, featuring a novel synapomorphy for the Zodariidae (Araneae), pp. 1-33 in European Journal of Taxonomy 152 on pages 19-22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.152, http://zenodo.org/record/322388