Buitinga globosa ( Tullgren, 1910 )

Bernhard A. Huber & Charles M. Warui, 2012, East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 29 (29), pp. 1-44 : 5

7. Buitinga globosa ( Tullgren, 1910) . Tanzania ( Tullgren 1910; Berland 1920; Huber 2003a

sub Buitinga nigrescens ).

Note

As indicated previously ( Huber 2003a), this species might be a senior synonym of B. nigrescens ( Berland, 1920) . The first author has since seen what is left from Tullgren’s (1910) syntypes (2 ♀♀ without abdomens, from Kilimanjaro, Kiboscho, in ZMB 9870; and 2 ♀♀, 1 ♀ without abdomen and a possibly male prosoma without chelicerae and palps from Kilimanjaro, Kibonoto, in MNHN, AR 10388) as well as Berland’s (1920) male specimens (2 ♂♂ from Kilimanjaro, Marangu, in MNHN, AR 10378). Berland’s (1920) specimens seem to be correctly identified, and they correspond exactly to the specimens from Mt. Meru described as Buitinga nigrescens in Huber (2003a) . The redescription of B. nigrescens in Huber (2003a) is thus probably based on a misidentification and refers to B. globosa . However, since no topotypical males are known of B. nigrescens (Mt. Kenya, “st. no. 39” at 2400 m a.s.l., now Naro Moru Track), and since newly collected males from other Kenyan localities (see B. nigrescens below) indicate that B. nigrescens might in fact be a valid species, the two species are not synonymized.