Patelloceto denticulata Lyle & Haddad 2010, sp. n.
Creators: name: Lyle, Robin
name: Haddad, Charles R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Trachelidae
Patelloceto
Patelloceto denticulata

description: Patelloceto denticulata sp. n.   Figs 120, 138–140  
 Etymology: From Latin denticulata (bearing small teeth), referring to the denticles on the femoral apophysis of the male palp.   
Diagnosis: This species can easily be distinguished from congeners by the presence of three rather than two ventral distal cymbial spines, and the broader, distinctly looping embolus (Fig. 139). Female unknown.  
Description:  
 Male.   
Measurements: CL 2.50, CW 2.08, AL 2.60, AW 1.75, TL 5.10, FL 0.18, SL 1.18, SW 1.18, AME–AME 0.13, AME–ALE 0.05, ALE–ALE 0.50, PME–PME 0.20, PME–PLE 0.13, PLE–PLE 0.73. Length of leg segments (sequence from femur to tarsus, and total): I 2.03+0.90+1.60+1.30+0.93=6.76; II 1.85+0.95+1.45+1.23+0.90=6.38; III 1.38+0.55+ 0.93+1.05+0.55=4.46; IV 1.93+0.70+1.55+1.80+0.68=6.66.  
 Carapace orange (Fig. 120), slightly darker at eye region; first third of carapace convex, last third with steep decline; surface smooth, covered in short fine setae; fovea at two thirds of CL. Ocular region orange, eyes with dark brown rings; AER slightly recurved, ALE larger than AME; clypeus height slightly larger than AME diameter; AME separated by distance equal to their diameter; AME separated from ALE by distance equal to half AME diameter; PER slightly procurved, almost straight, PME larger than PLE; PME separated by distance equal to twice PME diameter; PME separated from PLE by 1.2 PME diameter. Chelicerae light brown, slightly darker at base; anterior surface with scattered long, fine setae; fang orange-brown; three promarginal teeth, distal tooth largest, proximal tooth smallest; two retromarginal teeth, proximal tooth largest. Sternum pale yellow; surface smooth with scattered long, fine setae. Abdomen pale grey with cream undertones dorsally; abdomen broader anteriorly, tapering posteriorly; scutum covering entire abdomen length; two pairs of pale, indistinct grey sigilla; venter cream. Legs light brown to pale yellow in colour; anterior legs larger and more robust than posteriors; leg spines and cusps present. Leg spination: femora: I pl 1, II pl 1, III pl 1; patellae spineless; tibia: I plv 13 cusps, II plv 12 cusps, III plv 1, IV plv 2 vt 2; metatarsi: I plv 17 rlv 10 vt 2 cusps, II plv 12 rlv 5 vt 2 cusps, III plv 1; tarsi: I plv 8 rlv 4 cusps, II plv 7 rlv 3 cusps (Fig. 138). Palp pale yellow­brown, without spines; femur with small retrolateral apophysis with fine denticles; patella with slightly twisted retrolateral apophysis, extending beyond base of cymbium; tibia with pointed dorsal apophysis, anterior length approximately equal to distal tibial width (Fig. 140); tegulum elongate; embolus broad, looping retrolaterally, then distally, with sharp tip; cymbium with three short distal ventral spines, two situated prolaterally and one retrolaterally (Fig. 139).   
 Holotype: ♂ ETHIOPIA: Shoa, Lake Zwai Zwai, 07°45'S: 38°45'E, 18.vii.1981, A. Russell-Smith, on trunk of Ficus sycomorus (MRAC, 223298).   
Distribution: Known only from the type locality (Fig. 146).
description: Published as part of Lyle, Robin & Haddad, Charles R., 2010, A revision of the tracheline sac spider genus Cetonana Strand, 1929 in the Afrotropical Region, with descriptions of two new genera (Araneae Corinnidae), pp. 321 in African Invertebrates 51 (2) on pages 376-377, DOI: 10.5733/afin.051.0206, http://zenodo.org/record/7913561