Harpactea wolfgangi Komnenov & Chatzaki

Marjan Komnenov, Eva Pitta, Konstantina Zografou & Maria Chatzaki, 2016, Discovering the still unexplored arachnofauna of the National Park of Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli, NE Greece: a taxonomic review with description of new species, Zootaxa 4096 (1), pp. 1-66 : 22-23

Harpactea wolfgangi Komnenov & Chatzaki sp. n.

Figs 47–52

Type material. Holotype: male ( NHMC, FC 12144), Dadia National Park, pine forest, site 7, 22.05- 30.06.2011, leg. K. Zografou. Paratypes: Site 4 (a: 8 ♂). Other material examined: Site 7 (a: 5 ♂), Site 8 (a: 1 ♂), Site 9 (a: 7 ♂, b: 1 ♂), Site 11 (b: 1 ♂).

Etymology. The name is a patronym in honour of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nentwig ( Switzerland) for his various contributions to the field of arachnology. Noun in genitive case.

Diagnosis. Harpactea wolfgangi sp. n. is closely related to Harpactea konradi Lazarov, 2009 in having bifurcated embolus, but can be distinguished by the larger size (body and leg length) and by the sinuous proximal additional apophisys of the embolus ( Figs. 47–52 ).

Description. Male (holotype). Total length 7.72; carapace 3.61 long, 2.72 wide. Cephalic region 1.58 wide. Abdomen 4.11 long, 1.88 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.12, PME 0.09, PLE 0.1, AME-AME 0.08, AME-PLE 0.01, PME-PME 0.01, PME-PLE 0.03. Distance between AME greater than their diameter. Clypeus 0.12 long. Chelicerae 1.57 long, 0.65 wide. Retromargin with 2 small teeth, one tooth on its middle part and another one on its base. Promargin with 2 teeth of equal size as those at retromargin, close to each other, at base of groove. Labium more than twice as long as wide. Sternum 2.15 long, 1.49 wide, with sparse long brown hairs towards the margin and small ones at the center. Carapace, maxillae, labium and sternum orange-brown. Legs orange. Abdomen whitish grey. Leg measurements and leg spination are given in Tables 12 and 13. Palp as in Figs 47–52 . Bulbus oval; embolus black, medially bifurcated, proximal branch sinuous, projected in the same direction as the semicircular distal branch; conductor wide, boomerang-like.

Female unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality in NE-Greece ( Fig. 1 ). Chorotype. Probably Greek endemic.

TA B L E 12. Leg measurements of Harpactea wolfgangi sp. n. (male holotype).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Map of the study area with sampling sites indicated on the largest zoom.

FIGURES 47 – 52. Harpactea wolfgangi sp. n. male. 47 palp, retrolateral view; 48 same, dorsal view; 49 same, ventraloretrolateral view; 50 same, retrolateral view; 51 same, prolateral view; 52 same, enlarged. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (47 – 49); 0.1 mm (50 – 52).