Andromma bouvieri Fage, 1936

Bosselaers, Jan & Jocqué, Rudy, 2022, Studies in the Liocranidae (Araneae): revision of Andromma Simon, 1893, European Journal of Taxonomy 850, pp. 1-78 : 22-24

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.850.1997

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E8AD897F-2076-4850-9520-BB79B1EAFFEA

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7430123

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9C479E6B-FFE2-FFC7-FDF4-F1F8FAECFB6A

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scientific name

Andromma bouvieri Fage, 1936
status

 

Andromma bouvieri Fage, 1936 View in CoL

Figs 11 View Fig , 38 View Fig

Andromma bouvieri Fage, 1936: 85 View in CoL , figs 1–2 (description ♀).

Material examined

Lectotype (here designated)

KENYA • ♀; South Turkana, between the Nepau escarpment and Kalodeke, SW of Lake Turkana; appr. 2°40′ N, 38°23′ W; 800–1000 m a.s.l.; 20 Jan. 1933; Arambourg, Chapuis and Jeannel leg.; in hot, dry desert, in chimney-mound Macrotermes (subgenus Bellicositermes ) sp. termite nests, (stn 22); MNHN AR3103.

Paralectotype

KENYA • 1 ♀; same collection data as for lectotype; MNHN AR3103 About MNHN .

Supplementary description

Female (lectotype, Fig. 11 View Fig )

MEASUREMENTS. Total length 4.69. Carapace length 2.56, width 2.13; height 1.07.

COLOUR ( Fig. 11A–B View Fig ). Carapace and chelicerae orange. Legs and abdomen pale yellow.

PROSOMA. Fovea 0.32, 1.05 from PME.

EYES. MOQ length 0.25, anterior width 0.31, posterior width 0.34, AER straight from above, width 0.64, PER procurved from above, width 0.70. All eyes circular; AME 0.15, ALE 0.08, PLE 0.07, PME 0.03; AME–AME: 0.05, AME–ALE: 0.05, ALE–PLE: 0.02, PME–PME: 0.15. Clypeus vertical, 0.23, with seven long setae. Chilum absent. Sternum length 1.56, same width. Chelicerae ( Fig. 11C View Fig ): promargin with two teeth and one tiny tooth slightly more inward.

LEG SPINATION. All femora with one dorsal and one proventral spine. T I v 2-2-2-2-2; Mt I v 2-2-2; T III pl 1 v 2; Mt III v 2-2; T IV v 2-2; Mt IV v 1-1.

LEG I MEASUREMENTS. Fe: 2.34, P: 0.92, T: 2.06, Mt: 1.73, t: 1.28; total: 8.33.

LEG FORMULA. 4123.

EPIGYNE ( Fig. 11D–E View Fig ). A wide, sclerotised area with posterior margin medially with two small indentations, anterior margin indented in the middle; copulatory openings transversely oval, separated by less than their long axis; internal structure vaguely visible in transparency.

Male

Unknown.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in northern Kenya ( Fig. 38 View Fig ). The species is termitophilous.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Liocranidae

Genus

Andromma

Loc

Andromma bouvieri Fage, 1936

Bosselaers, Jan & Jocqué, Rudy 2022
2022
Loc

Andromma bouvieri

Fage L. 1936: 85
1936
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