Mystarini

Honiball Lewis, Allet S. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, Ansie S., 2014, Revision of the spider genus Mystaria Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Thomisidae) and the description of a new genus from the Afrotropical region, Zootaxa 3873 (2), pp. 101-144 : 142-143

Key to genera of the Mystarini -Apyretini -Tagulini tribes of the Afrotropical crab spiders

1. Median eyes unequal in size, PME very small............................................................... 2

- MOQ eyes fairly equal in size............................................................................4

2. Carapace wide with long erectile setae situated on small tubercles on posterior-thoracic edge; PME situated nearer to PLE than to each other............................................................... Apyretina Strand, 1929 (Apyretini)

- Carapace convex to square or dorsally planar; long setae absent; posterior eyes almost equidistant from each other........ 3

3. MOQ area much wider than long, wider anteriorly than posteriorly................. Zametopias Thorell 1892 (Apyretini)

- MOQ area slightly wider than long, anteriorly slightly narrower than posteriorly ( Figs 139, 140 )............ Leroya gen. n.

4. Carapace with leaf-shaped setae next to lateral eyes................................... Tagulis Simon, 1895 (Tagulini)

- Carapace without leaf-shaped setae next to lateral eye area.................................................... 5

5. Carapace with numerous long erectile setae on posterior-thoracic edge, fovea and laterad to eye region, ant-like, chelicerae without cheliceral teeth, body and legs usually uniform brown........................ Sylligma Simon, 1895 (Mystarini)

- Carapace only sometimes with a few long setae, not ant-like, but with large abdomens compared to carapace, chelicerae with three cheliceral teeth, body and legs usually with markings........................... Mystaria Simon, 1895 (Mystarini)

Figures

FIGURES 133–140. Photographs of the body, copulatory organs, eye pattern and clypeal length of Leroya gen. n. 133–136. L. silva sp. n. from DRC, Mayombe (133 male dorsal view, 134 male right palp ventral view, 135 female dorsal view, 136 female epigyne ventral view); 137–138. L. unicolor (Simon, 1895) comb. n. from DRC, Rwankwi (137 female dorsal view, 138 epigyne ventral view); 139 L. silva male frontal view; 140 L. unicolor female frontal view.