Acanthinozodium crateriferum, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Rudy Jocqué
name: Arnaud Henrard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Zodariidae
Acanthinozodium
Acanthinozodium crateriferum

description: Acanthinozodium crateriferum sp. nov.
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Figs 1–3, 13
Diagnosis
The male of this species is recognized by the shape of the RTA, which is straight and strongly tapered towards the sharp tip (Figs 2 B–C, 3A–B); the female has a wide epigyne with two triangular atria divided by a thin septum (Figs 1 E, 3C), very different from that of A. zavattarii Caporiacco, 1941 in which the atria are covered and the septum invisible from the outside.
Etymology
The name refers to the large crater-like pit at the base of the cymbium.
Type material
Holotype
ETHIOPIA: Ƌ, Near Ras Hotel, Awash National Park, 8°59’ N 40°10’ E, 29 May 1986, Russell-Smith A. (MRAC 220817).
Paratypes
1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, same data as holotype (MRAC 243548).
Other material examined
1 ♀, 1 Oct. 1986, under piles of grass, further as holotype (MRAC 220696); 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, 9 Nov. 1988, in grass and gravel, further as previous (MRAC 224602).
Description
Male
TOTAL LENGTH. 3.00.
CARAPACE. (Fig. 1 A). 1.56 long and 1.21 wide.
COLOUR. (Fig. 1 A). Carapace and chelicerae yellow; cephalic part with dense, brown suffusion forming butterFy pattern in front of dark red fovea; sternum and mouthparts pale yellow; legs yellow, anterior pairs with darker distal half of femora. Abdomen: Dorsum dark sepia with white spot in front of pale yellow spinnerets, the latter surrounded by ill-deFned dark ring; sides turning into pale along pale cream venter.
CLYPEUS. 0.21 high.
EYES. AME large, round; anterior eye row straight, posterior row procurved; AME: 0.15; ALE: 0.10; PME: 0.08; PLE: 0.10; AME-AME: 0.08; AME-ALE: 0.02; PME-PME: 0.21; PME-PLE: 0.03. MOQ: width 0.39 in front, 0.34 at the back; 0.33 long.
STERNUM. 0.85 long, 0.78 wide.
LEGS. Spination: all femora with two dorsal spines and two rows of long ventral setae.
ABDOMEN. With row of thin modiFed setae in front of spinnerets.
LEG MEASUREMENTS.
PALP. (Figs 2, 3 A–B). Tibia protruding dorsally; RTA straight, tapered to sharp tip; cymbium with large plug-pit just in front of tibial bulge; embolus reaching distal margin of bulbus with Fat distal part; MA sickle-shaped with distal bulge; conductor rounded, membranous.
Female
TOTAL LENGTH. 3.98.
CARAPACE. (Fig. 1 B). 1.85 long and 1.42 wide.
COLOUR. (Fig. 1 B–D). Similar to male, but all femora distally darkened.
CLYPEUS. 0.25 high.
EYES. AME: 0.16; ALE: 0.10; PME: 0.08; PLE: 0.10; AME-AME: 0.08; AME-ALE: 0.02; PME-PME:
0.23; PME-PLE: 0.03. MOQ: width 0.44 in front, 0.38 at the back; 0.34 long.
STERNUM. 0.89 long, 0.82 wide.
LEG MEASUREMENTS.
EPIGYNE. (Figs 1 E, 3C). Much wider than long; with two triangular atria divided by thin median septum; spermathecae visible in transparency along distal side of triangle.
Variation
Total length of paratype male 2.8. Carapace colour may vary from bright orange to yellowish orange.
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Fig. 13).
description: Published as part of Rudy Jocqué & Arnaud Henrard, 2015, Revalidation of Acanthinozodium Denis, 1966 with description of three new species and discovery of a remarkable male palpal character (Araneae, Zodariidae), pp. 1-23 in European Journal of Taxonomy 114 on pages 4-7, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.114, http://zenodo.org/record/1406552