Hortipes architelones, BOSSELAERS & JOCQUÉ, 2000

BOSSELAERS, JAN & JOCQUÉ, RUDY, 2000, Hortipes, A Huge Genus Of Tiny Afrotropical Spiders (Araneae, Liocranidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (256), pp. 4-4 : 4-

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)256<0004:HAHGOT>2.0.CO;2
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03938717-FFA8-FFF6-FCFF-7873FBBBFB4F
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Hortipes architelones
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Hortipes architelones View in CoL , new species Figures 31a–c View Fig , 33a, b View Fig ; Map 5 View Map 5

TYPES: Male holotype: forest, 900 m, Mt. Febe, Cameroon (21 February 1981; R. Bosmans) ( MRAC 207.363 View Materials ). Paratypes: 16, four juveniles from lowland rain forest, 500 m, Etinde, Cameroon (March 1981; R. Bosmans) ( MRAC) ; 1♀ from strongly degraded mountain rain forest, dominated by elephant grass ( Pennisetum purpureum ), 1300 m, Mt. Cameroon, Cameroon (March 1981; R. Bosmans) ( MRAC) ; 1♀ in pitfall trap in transition zone toward mountain rain forest with some sparse tree ferns, 700 m, Etinde , Cameroon (February 1981; R. Bosmans) ( MRAC) .

ETYMOLOGY: Because the complexity of palp and vulva of the present species seriously frightened the first author initially, the species is designated with the classical Greek word αpxιτeλωνηs, ‘‘the tax inspector,’’ used as a noun in apposition.

DIAGNOSIS: Males of H. architelones are recognized by the male palp which has a

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than the diameter of the apophysis itself, halfway along its length. Females can be recognized by a combination of the epigyne being a trapezoidal depression enclosing the ID entrances and the very complex loops and coils of the ID itself.

I 0.86, II 0.92, III 0.73, IV 1.00. Leg spination. Fe: I rv 2; IV plt 0 rlt 0; ti: I, II vsp 6; mt: III plt 1 vt 1 rlt 0; IV plt 1 vt 2 rlt 1. Coloration. Carapace orange yellow. Chelicerae, sternum, and legs yellow. Abdomen yellowish brown, no pattern. Palp. Bulbus

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broad, almost straight RTA, with bifid tip; cymbium with retrolateral bend with regular series of long setae; tegulum with retrolateral swelling at base of embolus; sperm duct with wide basal part and thin distal part with deep, sharp turn; MA with fairly short, widened distal part and obliquely tapering base, slightly narrowing into distal slender part provided with denticle on inner margin; embolus long, whiplike, looped over almost 720° (fig. 31a, b).

FEMALE: Measurements. Total length 2.59; carapace 1.24 long, 1.05 wide; length of fe: I 1.05, II 1.11, III 0.84, IV 1.19. Leg spination. Fe: I rv 3; IV plt 0–1 rlt 0–1; ti: I, II vsp 6; mt: III plt 1 vt 1 rlt 1; IV plt 1 vt 2 rlt 1. Coloration. Carapace, chelicerae, sternum, and legs yellow brown. Abdomen apricot, no pattern. Genitalia. Epigyne a trapezoidal depression with rounded corners, enclosing entrances of IDs and situated in front of ST1 (fig. 31c). Vulva: ID entrances appressed against each other on symmetry axis of vulva, first stretch of ID wide, thick walled, associated with urnshaped gland and connected to ST1 through very complex sequence of loops and coils passing both along ventral and dorsal side of ST1 (fig. 33a, b).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Cameroon: mans) ( MRAC) ; 1♀ hand captured in mountain rain forest, elev. 900 m, Etinde (February, 1981; R. Bosmans) ( MRAC) ; 1♀ captured in mountain rain forest alongside track to SHF radio mast, elev. 1600 m, Mt. Cameroon (March 1981; R. Bosmans) ( MRAC) .

VARIABILITY: The number of terminal spines on fe IV of females and the exact course of the coils and loops of ID are somewhat variable.

DISTRIBUTION: Mt. Cameroon and its immediate surroundings, Cameroon.