Lepthyphantes buensis Bosmans & Jocqué, 1983

Figs 27-28, 36-40

Material examined: MHNG; 1 male, 2 females [sample KENYA-74/01]; KENYA, Nairobi, sifting dead leaves in garden; 2.XI.1974; leg. V. Mahnert.

Short re-description: Male. Total length 2.00 (Fig. 27). Carapace unmodified, 0.88 long, 0.75 wide, greyish pale brown, with narrow grey radial stripes. Chelicerae 0.33 long. Legs pale brown to yellow. Leg I 4.10 long (1.05 + 0.25 + 1.05 + 1.10 + 0.65), IV 3.63 long (1.00 + 0.23 + 0.95 + 0.95 + 0.50). Chaetotaxy: FeI: 0-1-0- 0, II-IV: 0-0-0-0; TiI: 2-1-1-0, TiII: 2-0-1-0. MtI-III: 1-0-0-0. TmI 0.11. Palp (Figs 36-40): cymbium with two projections basally; paracymbium relatively large, toothless; embolus large, slightly bent, carina reduced; terminal apophysis consisting of two parts of different shapes; lamella characteristica well-sclerotized, complex. Abdomen 1.13 long, 0.75 wide, dorsal pattern as in Fig. 27.

Female. Total length 2.25 (Fig. 28). Carapace 0.93 long, 0.75 wide. Chelicerae 0.45 long. Leg I 4.34 long (1.10 + 0.28 + 1.08 + 1.00 + 0.88), IV 3.98 (1.10 + 0.25 + 1.00 + 1.05 + 0.58). TmI 0.13. Abdomen 1.50 long, 1.13 wide, dorsal pattern as in Fig. 28. Epigyne as illustrated by Bosmans & Jocqué (1983), Bosmans (1986). Body and leg coloration, and chaetotaxy as in male.

Distribution: This species was hitherto known from Cameroon only: Mt Cameroon, 1200-1800 m a.s.l. (Bosmans & Jocqué, 1983) and Mbam Massif, 1200 m a.s.l. (Bosmans, 1986). It is here recorded for the fauna of Kenya for the first time.

Taxonomic remarks: Judging from male genital morphology, namely the structure the embolus (see Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996b), the species belongs to Lepthyphantes sensu stricto, together with L. cruentatus Tanasevitch, 1987, L. iranicus Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996a, L. leprosus (Ohlert, 1867), L. minutus (Blackwall, 1833), L. rossitsae Dimitrov, 2018 and L. simiensis Bosmans, 1978 .