Pseudocorinna ubicki 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 ubicki

description: PSEUDOCORINNA UBICKI SP. NOV.   (FIGS 36A–F, 39C, 40) Type material: Holotype: male: EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Bioko, 3.5 km north of Luba 03°28′54″N, 08°34′58″E, 13.x.1998, swampy forest, D. Ubick et al. (CAS).   
Paratypes: 1♂ 1♀: together with holotype.  
 Diagnosis: Males of P. ubicki are easily recognized by the flat cymbium with a ventral groove, and the long embolus, of which the base is hidden by a large tegular lip; females have a characteristic epigyne with copulatory ducts in the shape of a question mark.   
 Etymology: The name of the species is a patronym in honour of the renowned arachnologist Darrell Ubick, who collected the type material.   
 Description: Male (holotype, CAS). Total l 4.47.   
Carapace dark reddish brown, covered by tiny warts forming a network with polygonal meshes. Carapace l: 2.20; w: 1.92. Fovea deep, clearly delimited. Sternum with warts, l: 0.99; w: 1.14. Abdomen greyish brown, with a large, brown dorsal scutum covering 80% of do abdominal surface area.  
Legs reddish brown, covered by fine warts.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-0-1-1 rlv 0-0-0-1-1; 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; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; III ve 0-2-0; IV pl 1-0-1 rl 0-1-0 ve 1-1-0.  
Male palp (Fig. 36A, B): RTA medium sized, curved downwards, tapered to indented tip; PTA small, denticulate, near base of ti; cymbium with small retrolateral basal extension, fairly flat with ventral groove along prolateral side and distal tip; basal part of tegulum wider than long, with strongly developed lip, hiding base of embolus; distal part of tegulum with strongly developed, curved backwards, membranous apophysis; embolus long, whip shaped, with basal tooth-like excrescence. PAPT and CAPT massive and short.  
Female (paratype, CAS). Total l 5.04.  
Carapace reddish brown, covered by tiny warts forming a network with polygonal meshes. Carapace l: 2.08; w: 1.92. Fovea deep, clearly delimited. Sternum warted, l: 0.99; w: 1.07. Abdomen greyish brown, without do scutum. Legs orange-brown, covered by fine warts.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-0-1-1 rlv 1-1-1-1-1; 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; IV rl 0-1-0; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; III ve 0-2-0; IV pl 1-1-0 rl 1-0-0 ve 0-1-0.  
Epigyne (Figs 36C, D, 39C): with sinuous central part of posterior margin showing small spermathecae in transparency; internal structure partly visible in transparency. Copulatory openings fairly close together just behind centre, not to be mistaken for the shallow ventral impressions. Copulatory ducts in shape of question mark run forward, then backward to small, widely separated, oval spermathecae situated just in front of posterior margin. Without lobate ducts.  
 Known geographical distribution: Equatorial Guinea (Fig. 40).
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 316-318, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00679.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5440406