Crinopseudoa catharinae 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
Crinopseudoa
Crinopseudoa catharinae

description: CRINOPSEUDOA CATHARINAE SP. NOV.  (FIGS 45E, F, 52A–D, 59D, 62)  
 Type material: Holotype: male: GUINEA: Forêt Classée de Ziama 08°24′N, 09°17′W, 14.vi.1998, pitfalls, forest, Flomo D. (MRAC 227283).   
Paratypes: same data as holotype: 1 ♂: 21.i.1999 (MRAC 217403); 1 ♂: 9.i.2000 (MRAC 217414); 1 ♂, 2 ♀: 13.vii.1999 (MRAC 217423); 2 ♂: 1.vi.1998 (MRAC 227276); 1 ♂, 1 ♀: 22.iv.1998 (MRAC 227284). LIBERIA: 1 ♂: Bong Range Forest, 06°49′N, 10°17′W, 8.iv.2005, pitfalls in rain forest, Flomo D. (MRAC 216628).  
 Other material: LIBERIA: 1 ♂: Fuamah Forest, 06°58′N, 10°12′W, 10.v.2008, Flomo D. (MRAC 228043).   
 Diagnosis: Males of P. catharinae are characterized by the short bifid RTA, the large cup-shaped MA, and the FC with twisted extremity. Females are recognized by the series of three wide, shallow folds along the frontal margin of the epigyne and the shallow, circular, central impression in front of its posterior margin.   
 Etymology: The species name is a patronym in honour of the biologist Katrien Bosselaers MSc, daughter of the second author.   
 Description: Male (holotype, MRAC 227283). Total l 4.55.   
Carapace chestnut brown with a black network of striae, covered by weak, dispersed warts (Fig. 45E, F). Carapace l: 2.00; w: 1.75. Fovea deep, clearly delimited. Sternum smooth, l: 1.03; w: 1.06. Abdomen greyish brown, with a weak, poorly defined, orangebrown dorsal scutum covering 25% of do abdominal surface area.  
Legs orange-brown, not warted.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-1 do 0-1-0; II do 0-1-0; III do 0-1-0; IV do 0-1-1; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2-2-2; III pl 0-1-0 rl 0-1-0 ve 0-2-0; IV pl 0-1-1 rl 0-1-1 ve 0-2-0; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; III pl 0-1-0 ve 2-0-2; IV pl 0-1-0 rl 0-1-0 ve 2-0-2.  
Male palp (Fig. 52A, B): RTA large, bifid, with two short, blunt prongs. PTA large, with rounded tip. Embolus with broad base with large tooth pointing outward, distal part narrow, sickle-shaped. MA cupshaped; FC flattened and wide, with twisted tip, accommodating embolus. Basal part of tegulum with ve extension, rounded at tip; PAPT large and rounded; CAPT small.  
Female (MRAC 227284). Total l 5.35.  
Carapace as in male, l: 1.88; w: 1.60. Sternum smooth, l: 0.95; w: 1.04. Abdomen greyish brown, without dorsal scutum. Legs orange-brown, not warted.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-0-1-1 do 0-1-0 rlv 0-0-0-0-1; II do 0-1-0; III do 0-1-0; IV do 0-1-1; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2- 2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2-2-2; III pl 0-1-0 rl 0-1-0 ve 0-2-0; IV pl 0-1-1 rl 0-1-1 ve 1-2-0; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; III pl 0-1-0 ve 2-0-2; IV pl 0-1-0 rl 0-1-0 ve 2-0-2.  
Epigyne (Figs 52C, D, 59D): a broad dark area with three wide, shallow folds along the frontal margin; shallow, circular, central impression in front posterior margin. Copulatory openings near posterior margin, far apart; spermathecae large, near posterior margin; with large lobate ducts dorsal of spermathecae.  
 Known geographical distribution: Guinea, Liberia (Fig. 62).
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 335-336, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00679.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5440406