Haplodrassus parvicorpus Roewer 1951, new combination
Creators: name: Bosmans
name: Van Keer, 
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Haplodrassus
Haplodrassus parvicorpus

description: <i>Haplodrassus parvicorpus</i> (Roewer, 1951) new combination (Figs 27-28) <i>Drassus parvulus</i> L. Koch, 1882: 632, pl. 20, fig. 10-11 (descr. male). <i>Drassus parvicorpus</i> Roewer, 1951: 443 (replacement name). <i>Haplodrassus maroccanus</i> Denis, 1956: 196, fig. 4-6; <b>new synonymy</b> (here removed from the synonymy of <i>H. dalmatensis</i> (L. Koch, 1866)). <b>Type material</b> Holotype male of <i>Drassus parvulus</i> from Spain, Baleares, Mallorca, Riera near Palma, 22.IV.1882, Schaufuss leg. (ZMB 7913); examined. Type series of <i>Haplodrassus maroccanus</i> from Morocco, Pr. Taroudant, Ouled Teima (= Houara), according to DENIS (1956) composed of 1 male 3 subadult males, 1 female 3 subadult females, 21.II.1954 and 1 subadult female from Amzou; not examined, not found in the MNHNP. <b>Comparative material examined</b> SPAIN. Cadiz: Tarifa (N 36°0’50’’ E 5°36’25’’), 2 males 5 females, IV.1992, P. Poot leg. (CRB). <b>Comments</b> <i>Drassus parvulus</i> was described by KOCH (1882). Being preoccupied by <i>Drassus parvulus</i> Lucas, 1846, ROEWER (1951) offered <i>Drassus parvicorpus</i> as a replacement name. The species has never been cited since. According to KOCH (1882), this species is related to <i>Drassus minusculus</i> (= <i>Haplodrassus dalmatensis</i>) and differs by the more arched prosoma with a black margin, and the disposition of the eyes, with the PM not touching and the AM separated by nearly their diameter. These characters are too variable in <i>Haplodrassus</i> to distinguish species, but Koch’s figure 10 (1882) shows a male palp with a large, subterminal tooth on the tegular apophysis, and his figure 11 shows a palpal tibia with an apophysis as long as wide (Fig. 27). The male palps of the holotype male are both present and in good condition (Fig. 28). Examination shows that they are identical to the palps of <i>Haplodrassus maroccanus</i>, described from Morocco by DENIS (1956) and occurring all over the south-western Mediterranean (unpublished data). In <i>H. dalmatensis</i>, the tegular apophysis has only a small subterminal tooth, and the tibial apophysis is shorter than wide; thus there are sufficient diagnostic characters to separate the species. <i>Haplodrassus maroccanus</i> Denis, 1956 becomes a junior synonym of <i>H. parvicorpus</i> (Roewer, 1951 <b>n. comb.).</b> The synonymy of <i>H. maroccanus</i> with <i>H. dalmatensis</i>, proposed by LEVY (2004) is rejected. The species will be fully redescribed in a further paper. <b>Distribution</b> Mallorca and Morocco.
description: Published as part of <i>Bosmans &amp; Van Keer, 2012, On the spider species described by L. Koch in 1882 from the Balearic Islands (Araneae), pp. 5-16 in Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43 (1)</i> on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.5431/aramit4306, http://zenodo.org/record/556090
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