Crinopseudoa billeni 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 billeni

description: CRINOPSEUDOA BILLENI SP. NOV.  (FIGS 45A, B, 48A–E, 59A, 60)  
 Type material: Holotype: male: GUINEA: Forêt Classée de Ziama, 08°24′N, 09°17′W, 4.xi.1998, pitfalls, rain forest, Flomo D. (MRAC 217477).   
Paratype: GUINEA: 1♀: as previous, 17.vi.1999  
(MRAC 218114).  
 Other material: GUINEA: as previous, 1.xii.1999 (MRAC 217465); 1 ♂: as previous, 26.vi.1999 (MRAC 217467); 1 ♂: as previous, 18.iii.2000 (MRAC 217469); 1 ♂: as previous, 17.ii.2000 (MRAC 217471); 1 ♂: as previous, 9.v.1999 (MRAC 217472); 1 ♂: as previous, 18.iii.2000 (MRAC 217473); 1 ♂: as previous, 4.vi.1999 (MRAC 217474); 1 ♂: as previous, 9.v.1999 (MRAC 217475); 1 ♂: as previous, 13.vii.1999 (MRAC 217476); 1 ♂: as previous, 31.iii.2000 (MRAC 217478); 1 ♂: as previous, 13.iv.1999 (MRAC 217479); 1 ♂: as previous, 13.iv.1999 (MRAC 217480); 1 ♀: as previous, 31.iii.1999 (MRAC 217481); 1 ♂: as previous, 16.ix.1999 (MRAC 217482); 1 ♀: as previous, 1.xii.1999 (MRAC 217483); 1 ♂: as previous, 17.ii.2000 (MRAC 217484); 2 ♂: as previous, 1.xii.1999 (MRAC 217485); 1 ♂: as previous, 18.iii.2000 (MRAC 217486); 1 ♂: as previous, 18.iii.2000 (MRAC 217487); 1 ♂: as previous, 22.v.1999 (MRAC 217488); 1 ♂: as previous, 30.xi.1998 (MRAC 217491); 1 ♂: as previous, 22.v.1999 (MRAC 217492); 1 ♂: as previous, 13.iv.1999 (MRAC 217493); 1 ♂: as previous, 9.v.1999 (MRAC 217494); 1 ♂: as previous, 31.iii.2000 (MRAC 217496); 1 ♂: as previous, 8.viii.1999 (MRAC 217497); 1 ♂: as previous, 4.ii.2000 (MRAC 217498): 1♀: as previous, 5.xi.1999 (MRAC 227279).   
 Diagnosis: Males of P. billeni are characterized by the very short and globular palp with simple appendages; the RTA is small, curved, and slightly indented at the tip. Females are recognized by the epigyne with a circular depression in the oval posterior lip of the epigyne.   
 Etymology: The species name is a patronym in honour of Johan Billen, a renowned ant specialist.   
 Description: Male (holotype, MRAC 217477). Total l 4.25.   
Carapace orange-brown, covered by evenly dispersed tiny warts (Fig. 45A, B). Carapace l: 1.85; w: 1.60. Fovea deep, clearly delimited. Sternum smooth, l: 0.95; w: 0.98. Abdomen greyish brown, with a small, poorly defined brown dorsal scutum covering 15% of do abdominal surface area.  
Legs yellow-brown, not warted.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-1 do 0-1-0; II do 0-1-0; III do 0-1-1; IV do 0-1-1; ti: I ve 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. 48A, B): RTA near ve margin, curved inward; with parallel sides as seen from side, with very shallow indentation at slightly widened tip; PTA simple, short, distal, tooth-shaped; bulbus short and globular; proximal part of tegulum with broad PAPT and small CAPT; embolus a simple, short, curved prong; FC small, semicircular; MA absent.  
Female (MRAC 227279). Total l 5.50.  
Carapace as in male, l: 2.03; w: 1.70. Sternum smooth, l: 1.05; w: 1.10. Abdomen greyish brown, without do scutum. Legs orange-brown, not warted.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-0-1-1 rlv 0-0-0-0-1; II 0-1-0; III do 0-1-1; IV do 0-1-1; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2; III pl 0-1-0 rl 0-1-0 ve 0-0-2; IV pl 0-1-1 rl 0-1-1 ve 0-0-2; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; III pl 0-1-0 ve 2-0-2; IV pl 1-0-0 rl 1-0-0 ve 2-0-2.  
Epigyne (Figs 48C–E, 59A): dark area with fairly large central pit in posterior half, provided with an oval lip; copulatory openings near posterior margin; strongly curved copulatory ducts leading forward, then backward into roughly triangular, widely separated spermathecae.  
 Known geographical distribution: Guinea (Fig. 60).
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 324-330, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00679.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5440406