Aposphragisma salewskii Thoma 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: THOMA, MARCO
name: KRANZ-BALTENSPERGER, YVONNE
name: KROPF, CHRISTIAN
name: GRABER, WERNER
name: NENTWIG, WOLFGANG
name: FRICK, HOLGER
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Aposphragisma
Aposphragisma salewskii

description: Aposphragisma salewskii Thoma, sp. nov.
(Figs. 42–43)
Type material. HOLOTYPE: male (PBI_OON 00031387), Bukit Timah Nature Reserve (SINGAPORE) [01°21′N 103°47′E; inf.], 21.II.1983, leg. C. Deeleman, deposited at RMNH. PARATYPE: 1 male (PBI_OON 00031351), collected together with holotype, deposited at RMNH.
Etymology. The species epithet is dedicated to Dr. Volker Salewski (*1964), a German biologist and naturalist, whose scientific work, attitude and friendship have been an inspiration for the first authors’ own work and life.
Diagnosis. A. salewskii sp. nov. belongs to the stripe-clade and can be distinguished from other species of this clade by the combination of the following traits: elevated portion of pars cephalica granulate (Fig. 42F); carapace without spikes; carapace margin with pointed denticles, sluice restricted to posterior margin (Fig. 42D).
Description. Description based on 2 males.
MALE. With the characters of the genus except as noted. Body length 1.90–1.91 mm (n=2), carapace length 0.91–0.92 mm (n=2). Sclerotized parts uniformly coloured red-brown, approaching colour 132A ‘brick red’; legs paler than body, orange-brown. Habitus: Figs. 42 A–C.
CEPHALOTHORAX. Carapace: surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica granulate (Fig. 42F), sides strongly reticulate, partly interrupted by small smooth areas (Fig. 42D); posterolateral surface without spikes; posterior edge of pars cephalica with slightly stronger modified hair bases, appearing as pointed denticles; carapace margin with sluice restricted to posterior margin, with pointed denticles (Fig. 42D). Eyes: posterior eye-row recurved from above, procurved from front (Figs. 42D, F); ALE largest, separated by their radius to diameter; ALE-PLE separated by less than ALE radius; PME touching throughout most of their length; PLE-PME separated by less than PME radius. Sternum surface finely ornamented except smooth median stripe (Fig. 42E); posterior margin with narrow single extension, covered with blunt denticles (Fig. 42E). Pleura: surface smooth with pairs of large pits dorsally of each coxa I, II and III (as in A. brunomanseri sp. nov., Fig. 10B). Mouthparts: chelicerae promargin with row of flattened setae, distally extending into a short inwards pointing tooth-like projection (tlp) (Fig. 42E).
ABDOMEN. Book lung covers (bc) large, elliptical, slightly dumbbell shaped (sides slightly concave to parallel), about 3–4 times longer than wide, much darker than surroundings (Fig. 42G). Epigastric scutum dorsally with widely oval subterminal ridge (sr) (Fig. 42G). Postepigastric scutum almost semicircular, with short posteriorly directed lateral apodemes (lap) (Fig. 42H).
GENITALIA. Epigastric region: sperm pore situated between anterior and posterior spiracles (Fig. 42H). Palp: basal segments as well as bulb and cymbium lighter in colour than rest of body; bulb stout (Figs. 43 A–B). Embolus (em) tip spatulate (Figs. 43 A–C); embolic spine (esp) with pointed tip (Fig. 43C); conductor (con) with broad tip (Fig. 43C). Embolus-conductor-complex about as long as bulb.
Distribution. Bukit Timah, SINGAPORE (Fig. 49).
description: Published as part of THOMA, MARCO, KRANZ-BALTENSPERGER, YVONNE, KROPF, CHRISTIAN, GRABER, WERNER, NENTWIG, WOLFGANG & FRICK, HOLGER, 2014, The new Southeast Asian goblin spider genus Aposphragisma (Araneae, Oonopidae): diversity and phylogeny, pp. 1-86 in Zootaxa 3798 (1) on pages 66-67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3798.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4431865