Teyl Main, 1975

Main, Barbara York, 2004, Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: descriptions of three new species of Teyl from Victoria (Araneae: Nemesiidae), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 61 (1), pp. 47-55 : 48

Teyl Main

Teyl Main, 1975: 74 .

Type species. Teyl luculentus Main, 1975 by monotypy (female holotype from 14.5 km N of Bruce Rock, WA, ( WAM 75- 944).— Raven, 1981: 341.— Main, 1982: 73.— Main, 1983: 925.— 1985a: 39.— 1985b: 746.—Raven, 1985: 82, 87, 88.

Diagnosis. As in Main (1985b) but with the following modifications/additions. Small to medium-sized spiders (carapace length 2.0 to 10.0 mm). Scopula sparse or absent on tarsi of palp and anterior legs of female. Scopula of male complete (i.e. covering whole ventral face) on tarsi I and II, on apical part only (if present) on anterior metatarsi. Metatarsus I of males straight (unmodified) or with “elbow” i.e. “bowed”; with many, few or no spines. Palpal bulb and embolus of male variable, as for tribe and with embolus short or long (based on described and undescribed species). Differs from Namea by the broad sternum which is convex behind labium and the short ovoid terminal segment of the posterior lateral spinnerets; from Teyloides by lacking a spined spur on tibia I in the male and lobate, not coiled, internal genitalia in the female; and from Pseudoteyl by absence of dark smudges on the legs.

Remarks. Raven (1985: 88) incorrectly stated that the holotype of Teyl luculentus was a “male”. The holotype is a female ( Main, 1975: 74). The comment by Raven (1985: 88) “cymbium... aspinose” requires modification in that some undescribed species and one species described here have spines on the male palpal tarsus. The first part of the third couplet of the key ( Main, 1985b) requires modification as follows “Southwest WA, Eyre Peninsula, SA and western Victoria (instead of “Southwest WA only”). Species (including many undescribed) occur in southwestern Western Australia, Eyre Peninsula South Australia and western Victoria.