Euprosthenopsis

Cruz da Silva, Estevam L. & Sierwald, Petra, 2014, Description of the males of Euprosthenops australis Simon, 1898 and Euprosthenopsis pulchella (Pocock, 1902) (Araneae: Pisauridae), Zootaxa 3857, pp. 137-150 : 145

Euprosthenopsis Blandin, 1974

Figs 2, 23-35

Euprosthenopsis Blandin 1974: 945; Platnick 2014.

Type-species. Euprosthenops armatus Strand , 1913, by original designation.

Diagnosis. The representatives of Euprosthenopsis Blandin, 1974 resemble those of Euprosthenops Pocock, 1897 in the following characters: foraging on a sheet web (Fig. 2), anterior eye row extremely procurved (forming almost two eye rows) and anterior lateral eye strongly projected (Figs 24, 25) but they can be differentiated by the position in the web, since Euprosthenops moves under the web (Fig. 1) and Euprosthenopsis moves on the surface of the sheet web (Fig. 2). The male palpi of Euprosthenopsis possess a short and rounded distal tegular apophysis ( DTA) (Figs 27, 32) and a concave retrolateral tibial apophysis ( RTA) (Figs 28, 34). In contrast, males of Euprosthenops possess a large and flattened distal tegular apophysis ( DTA) (Fig. 15) and a finger-like retrolateral tibial apophysis ( RTA) (Fig. 17). Females of Euprosthenopsis resemble those of Euprosthenops by the presence of conspicuous lateral lobes ( LL) (Blandin 1974: 938, fig. 4) and by the scape-like projection of the middle field ( MF) (Blandin 1974: 938, fig. 4), but can be distinguished from Euprosthenops by the slightly elongated spermathecae (Blandin 1974: 939, fig. 5) and by the tubular and elongated copulatory ducts ( CD) in the latter (Blandin 1974: 939, fig. 5).