Djeboa expansipalpis (Cook, 1966)

(Figs. 19A–F, 37F)

Mideopsis (Djeboa) expansipalpis Cook 1966: 232 .

Material examined: Type series: FMC, Liberia; holotype female, Bomi Hills Road, stream at bridge 132, 31.i.1958, Cook (Coll. 93); paratypes: same data as holotype, 2/2/0; Coll. 50, 0/1/0; Coll. 74, 0/1/0; Coll. 86, 0/1/0; Coll. 88 0/1/0; Coll.92, 1/2/0; Coll. 95, 1/0/0 (for details see Cook 1966).

New records: Côte d’Ivoire, River N’zi near Tinbé, (T) drift day, 11.vii.1977 Statzner 0/1/0 (mounted).

General features: Dorsal shield oval (L/W ratio 1.1–1.2), with medial depression; muscle scars anterior and posterior to postocularia with well pronounced thickenings; second pair of muscle scars extending to the edge of dorsal depression (Fig. 37F); central portion of dorsal shield purple; gnathosomal bay V-shaped; tips of Cx-I ending slightly posterior to frontal margin; medial margins of Cx-IV reduced to a median angle and well separated from each other; posterior margin of Cx-IV extending posterolaterally. Palp (Fig. 19D): P-1 with a dorsal seta; P-2 strongly inflated, with straight ventral and convexly bowed dorsal margin; P-3 much higher proximally than ventrally, ventral margin slightly concave, dorsal margin strongly convex; P-4 slender, basally thickened, from here to anterior tip equally narrowed. Legs: I-L (Fig. 19E) with I-L-6 L/H ratio 2.0, ventral margin distally convexly protruding; IV-L: Fig. 19F.

Discussion: The present species is similar to Djeboa compressa K. Viets, 1914 in shape of idiosoma and palp (P-1 with dorsal seta, P-4 slender, much longer than high) but differs in dorsal muscle scars, more pronounced and purple rather than blue, central portion of dorsal shield, the medial margins of Cx-IV more distanced from each other, and P-3 even more expanded and lacking the characteristic dorsal indentation.

Distribution: Liberia; first record from Côte d’Ivoire.