Pseudocorinna felix 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
Pseudocorinna
Pseudocorinna felix

description: PSEUDOCORINNA FELIX SP. NOV.  (FIGS 3A–E, 5A–E, 6C, 22A–D, 30, 38L)  
 Type material: Holotype: male: IVORY COAST: Appouesso, Forêt Classée de la Bossematié, 06°35′N, 03°28′W, 27.viii.1995, forest, pitfall, Jocqué R. & Tanoh (MRAC 204327).   
 Paratypes: IVORY COAST: 1 ♀: Appouesso, Forêt Classée de la Bossematié, 06°35′N, 03°28′W, 18.v.1994, rain forest, pitfall traps, Jocqué R. & Séabé N. (MRAC 202400); 1 ♂: as previous, 3.i.1994 (MRAC 202402); 1 ♀: as previous, 18.v.1994 (MRAC 202403); 1 ♀: as previous, 22.x.1995, forest, pitfall, Jocqué R. & Tanoh (MRAC 204311); 1 ♂: as previous, 24.ix.1995 (MRAC 204314); 1 ♂: as previous, 23.iv.1995 (MRAC 204315); 1 ♂: as previous, 22.x.1995 (MRAC 204316); 1 ♂, 1 ♀: as previous, 2.i.1995 (MRAC 204317); 1 ♂: as previous, 22.x.1995 (MRAC 204318); 1 ♂: as previous, 16.vii.1995 (MRAC 204319); 1 ♀: as previous, 24.ix.1995 (MRAC 204321); 1 ♀: as previous, 18.vi.1995 (MRAC 204322); 1 ♂: as previous, 2.i.1995 Description: Male (holotype, MRAC 204327). Total l 4.90.   
Carapace chestnut brown (Fig. 3C), covered by tiny warts forming a network with polygonal meshes (Figs 3F, 5A). Carapace l: 2.08; w: 1.68. Fovea deep, clearly delimited. Sternum warted (Fig. 3D, E), l: 0.95; w: 1.03. Abdomen greyish brown, with a large, brown dorsal scutum covering 80% of do abdominal surface area (Fig. 3C).  
Legs orange-brown, covered by fine warts.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-0-1-1do 0-1-0 rlv 0-0-1- 1-1; III do 0-0-1; IV do 0-0-1; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; IV ve 0-1-0.  
Male palp (Fig. 22A, B): RTA short, broad, with two short prongs. RTA fairly long, finger shaped, inserted ventrally. Embolus very small, spine-like, invisible in ve view. MA membranous, broad, curved outwards. FC very large, sickle-shaped. Basal part of tegulum strongly swollen, triangular in ve view, with large triangular PAPT, triangular CAPT and rod-shaped RAPT.  
Female (paratype, MRAC 93959). Total l 4.20.  
Carapace as in male (Fig. 3A), l: 1.90; w: 1.58. Sternum warted, l: 0.90; w: 1.03. Abdomen greyish brown, without do scutum. Legs orange-brown, covered by fine warts.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-1-1-1 do 0-1-0 rlv 0-1-1- 1-1; III do 0-0-1; IV do 0-1-1; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; IV ve 0-1-0.  
Epigyne (Figs 22C, D, 38L): featureless dark area with internal structure visible in transparency. Posterior margin sinuous. Internal structure dominated by large lobate ducts.  
 Known geographical distribution: Ivory Coast (Fig. 30).
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 301-302, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00679.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5440406