Yoruba toubensis Rodrigues & Rheims 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Bruno V. B.
name: Rheims, Cristina A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Yoruba
Yoruba toubensis

description: Yoruba toubensis sp. nov.
Figs 54B, 60 A–G
Type material. Male holotype from Ivory Coast, Touba, 09°43’N 07°24’W, 18 June 1995, A. Russell-Smith leg., deposited in MRAC 227287. Female paratype from Cote d’Ivoire, Bouaké, WARDA site, 07°41’N 05°02’W, 9 August 1995, A. Russell-Smith leg., deposited in MRAC 227202.
Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality, adjective.
Diagnosis. Males of Yoruba toubensis sp. nov. are distinguished from those of Y. ibadanus sp. nov. by the palp with a laminate embolus, without folds (screw-shaped in Y. ibadanus sp. nov.) and the ventral tibial apophysis pointing retrolaterally in ventral view (straight in Y. ibadanus sp. nov.) (Figs 60A, D); females differ from Y. ibadanus sp. nov. by the epigyne lacking an epigynal scape (present in Y. ibadanus sp. nov.), copulatory openings with anterior part sclerotized, forming a hood (Figs 60E, F).
Description. Male (holotype). Total length: 2.37. Carapace 0.90 long, 0.61 wide; Abdomen 1.26 long, 0.70 wide; Sternum 0.67 long, 0.49 wide; Spinnerets: ALS 0.19 long, 0.12 wide. Eye diameters: AME 0.04, ALE 0.03, PME 0.04, PLE 0.05; interdistances: AME–AME 0.02, PME–PME 0.03. Chelicerae 0.22 long. Leg measurements: I: 2.73 (0.76, 0.55, 0.55, 0.45, 0.42); II: 1.83 (0.46, 0.30, 0.36, 0.35, 0.36); III: 1.61 (0.44, 0.22, 0.32, 0.30, 0.33); IV: 2.86 (0.75, 0.45, 0.62, 0.55, 0.49). Leg spination: I—femur d1-1-0. II—femur d1-1-0. III—femur d1-1-0; tibia and metatarsus probably with spines, but not visible. IV—femur 1-1-0; tibia v1-1-2, r1-0-1, p1-0-0; metatarsus v0-0-1, p0-0-1. Palp: RTA tapered and directed apically; embolus arising at 8 o’clock position; conductor arising close to center of tegulum (Figs 60 A–D).
Female. (Paratype). Total length: 2.56. Carapace 1.00 long, 0.62 wide; Abdomen 1.33 long, 0.78 wide; Sternum 0.70 long, 0.55 wide; Spinnerets: ALS 0.23 long, 0.13 wide. Eye diameters: AME 0.04, ALE 0.04, PME 0.04, PLE 0.05; interdistances:AME–AME 0.02, PME–PME 0.03, AME–ALE contiguous, PME–PLE contiguous, ALE–PLE contiguous. Chelicerae 0.27 long. Legs measurements: I: 2.70 (0.76, 0.52, 0.54, 0.46, 0.42); II: 2.31 (0.60, 0.40, 0.47, 0.44, 0.40); III: 1.89 (0.46, 0.30, 0.35, 0.42, 0.36); IV: 2.80 (0.74, 0.45, 0.60, 0.55, 0.46). Leg spination: I—femur d1-1-0. II—femur d1-1-0. III—femur d1-1-0; tibia v0-1p-1p, r0-1-1, p1-0-1; metatarsus v1-0-1, p0-0-1. IV—femur 1-1-0; tibia v1p-2-2, r1-0-1, p1-0-1; metatarsus v1-0-1, r0-1-0, p0-0-1. Vulva: copulatory ducts slightly diverging from one another; primary spermathecae ovoid (Fig. 60F, G).
Distribution. Known only from type localities in Ivory Coast (Fig. 61).
description: Published as part of Rodrigues, Bruno V. B. & Rheims, Cristina A., 2020, An overview of the African genera of Prodidominae spiders: descriptions and remarks (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 4799 (1) on pages 75-77, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4799.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3896645