Pasilobus Simon, 1895

Roff, John & Haddad, Charles R., 2015, Pasilobus dippenaarae sp. n. (Araneae: Araneidae), a new species of cyrtarachnine spider from South Africa, with a key to the Afrotropical species, African Invertebrates 56 (2), pp. 445-445 : 447-448

Genus Pasilobus Simon, 1895

Pasilobus Simon, 1895: 881 ; Simon 1903: 1004.

Type species: Micrathena bufonina Simon, 1867

Diagnosis: Pasilobus has never been revised, redescribed or diagnosed, other than Simon’s (1895) original generic description. Based on the latter, Pasilobus differs from Paraplectana by the presence of thickened lanceolate setae in the eye region; the median ocular quadrangle subquadrate and slightly raised; abdomen twice as broad than long, with low tubercles; legs quite slender, anterior and posterior legs longest; patellae, tibiae and metatarsi flattened and slightly uneQual, metatarsi shorter than tibiae.

Composition and distribution: Five species from East and South-East Asia ( P. bufoninus (Simon, 1867) , P. conohumeralis (Hasselt, 1894) , P. hupingensis Yin, Bao & Kim, 2001 , P. lunatus Simon, 1897 and P. nigrohumeralis (Hasselt, 1882)) ; one each from India

( P. kotigeharus Tikader, 1963 ) and the Solomon Islands ( P. mammatus Pocock, 1898 ); four from continental Africa ( P. dippenaarae sp. n., P. insignis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1908 , P. laevis Lessert, 1930 and P. mammosus ( Pocock, 1899)) ; and two from Madagascar ( P. antongilensis Emerit, 2000 and P. capuroni Emerit, 2000 ).