Pseudocorinna amphibia 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 amphibia

description: PSEUDOCORINNA AMPHIBIA SP. NOV.  (FIGS 6D–I, 8A–C, 10A–D, 19, 38C)  
 Type material: Holotype: male: IVORY COAST: Bianouan, forêt classée de Songan, 06°03′N, 03°10′W, 24.xi.1993, dense forest, wet litter, Jocqué R. (MRAC 177571).   
Paratypes: IVORY COAST: 1 ♀: Forêt classée de Songan, near Comoé River, hand caught in forest, 8.iii.1997, Steyn T. (MRAC 207394).  
Other material: IVORY COAST: 1 ♂ same data as holotype, in SEM.  
 Diagnosis: Males of P. amphibia are easily recognized by the massive MA with hollow tip and the very large FC with fan-shaped posterior appendage. Females are recognized by the tiny depression in the centre of the epigyne and the large lobate ducts visible along the lateral margins.   
 Etymology: The species name means ‘amphibious’ and alludes to the habitat of this species, which is inundated forest.   
 Description: Male (holotype, MRAC 177571). Total l 4.85.   
Carapace chestnut brown, covered by tiny warts forming a network with polygonal meshes. Carapace l: 2.60; w: 2.10. Fovea deep, clearly delimited. Sternum warted, l: 1.20; w: 1.35. Chelicerae, pleural bars, endites, labium, and chilum covered by fine warts. Abdomen greyish brown, with a large, brown do scutum covering 90% of do abdominal surface area. Legs orange-brown, covered by fine warts.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-1-1-1 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 rl 0-1-0 ve 0-2-0; IV pl 1-0-0 rl 1-0-0 ve 1-1-1.  
Male palp (Figs 8A–C, 10A, B): tibia with short but strong prolateral ve apophysis; RTA fairly broad at base, tapered to sharp tip; with small tooth on dorsal side; E broad and short; MA massive, strongly curved, hollow at tip and with wing-shaped membranous part; FC large, base visible at retrolateral side, running along distal margin of bulbus, ending in fan-shaped extension reaching posterior margin of bulbus; PAPT a large tooth; CAPT with three prongs, the most distal large and rounded.  
Female (paratype, MRAC 207394). Total l 4.10.  
Carapace as in male, l: 2.00; w: 1.65. Sternum warted, l: 0.95; w: 1.10. Chelicerae, pleural bars, endites, labium, and chilum as in male. Abdomen greyish brown, without do scutum. Legs orangebrown, covered by fine warts.  
Leg spination: fe: I pl 0-0-1-1-1do 0-1-0 rlv 1-1-1-1; III do 0-0-1; IV do 0-0-1; ti: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2; mt: I ve 2-2-2-2; II ve 2-2-2-2; IV ve 0-0-1.  
Epigyne (Figs 10C, D, 38C): almost featureless dark area with small central depression. Copulatory openings visible in cleared epigyne; with large lobate ducts.  
 Known geographical distribution: Ivory Coast (Fig. 19).
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 289-290, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00679.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5440406