Andromma albinovani Bosselaers & Jocqué 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bosselaers, Jan
name: Jocqué, Rudy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Liocranidae
Andromma
Andromma albinovani

description: Andromma albinovani sp. nov.
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Figs 6–7, 39
Diagnosis
The male of Andromma albinovani sp. nov. is characterized by the shape of the VTA and RTA being simpler than in all other species of Andromma except A. aethiopicum, and the female by the epigyne with tubular structures visible in transparency and comma-shaped copulatory openings.
Etymology
The species name is a patronym as a tribute to Benoit Albinovanus, the driving force behind the choral ‘Museicanti’ of the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren.
Type material
Holotype
IVORY COAST • ♂; Bouaflé, Congo Aboisso; 6°59′ N; 5°39′ W; 5 Feb. 1981; J. Everts leg.; pitfalls; BE_RMCA_ARA.Ara 177497.
Paratypes
IVORY COAST • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; BE_ RMCA _ARA.Ara 177497.
Note
Holotype has one palp attached, paratype none.
Description
Male (holotype, Fig. 6A–B, D–G)
MEASUREMENTS. Total length 2.84. Carapace length 1.42, width 1.07; height 0.43.
COLOUR (Fig. 6A–B). Entirely pale cream, probably bleached.
PROSOMA. Fovea hardly visible. PME absent. AER straight from above, width 0.21. AME 0.10, ALE and PLE 0.06; AME–AME: 0.02, AME–ALE: 0.02, ALE–PLE: touching. Clypeus vertical, 0.07. Chilum absent. Sternum 1.07 long, same width.
LEG SPINATION. All femora with one dorsal spine.
LEG I MEASUREMENTS. Fe: 0.89, P: 0.33, T: 0.62: Mt: 0.66; t: 0.53; total: 3.03.
LEG FORMULA. 4123.
MALE PALP (Fig. 6D–G). RTA flattened, twisted with innermost prong sharp, outer tip rounded; VTA a transverse curved disk with pointed retrolateral extremity; bulbus fairly large, alveolus about ⅔ of cymbium, which is somewhat curved inward; two curves of sperm duct visible in tegulum retrolaterally; embolus originates on posterior part of tegulum, runs along its prolateral side, ending in curved tip accompanied by small membranous conductor.
Female (paratype, Fig. 7)
MEASUREMENTS. Total length 2.70. Carapace length 1.14, width 0.92, height 0.43.
COLOUR (Fig. 6C). very similar to male.
EYES. AME 0.08, AME–AME: 0.02. Other eyes poorly delimited.
PROSOMA. Clypeus vertical, 0.07. Chilum absent. Sternum 0.78 long, same width.
LEGS. Missing from femur onwards.
EPIGYNE (Fig. 7A–D).Copulatory openings inconspicuous, comma-shaped, leading to initially broadening copulatory ducts running in posterior direction, then inward, followed by an anterior running stretch and finally a second stretch in posterior direction, ending in small spermathecae with a short, postero-lateral fertilisation duct and clearly defined, outward directed sickle-shaped sclerites.
Distribution
Known only from the type locality in central Ivory Coast (Fig. 39).
description: Published as part of Bosselaers, Jan & Jocqué, Rudy, 2022, Studies in the Liocranidae (Araneae): revision of Andromma Simon, 1893, pp. 1-78 in European Journal of Taxonomy 850 on pages 13-16, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.850.1997, http://zenodo.org/record/7427642