Pseudosympycnus albipalpus (Parent)

(Figs 1, 16, 17, 42, 43, 86)

Sympycnus albipalpus Parent, 1930: 22, figs 25–27. Type locality: Taperinha farm, Santarém, Pará, Brazil.

Diagnosis (male). Metepimeron yellow (Fig. 1). Femora entirely yellow (Fig. 1). Tibia I not compressed (Fig. 1). Tarsus I (Fig. 42) brown, except It 1 yellow: It 2 with 2 dorsal bristles at apex; It 3 twice as long as It 4; It 4–5 laterally flattened, with It 5 slightly longer than It 4 and with posteroventral row of curved setae. Tarsus II unmodified. Tarsus III (Fig. 43): IIIt 3–4 with posterior and posteroventral rows of setae decreasing in size towards apex.

Remarks. Species with “distal joints of male fore tarsus partly compressed, whitish” run to couplet 2 of Robinson’s (1967) key. According to the original description and after examination of photographs of the type (NHMW), that is not the case for P. albipalpus, which has brown fore tarsus. Based on characters listed in couplet 1 of Robinson’s key, we suspect that P. albipalpus and P. latipes were simply switched in the key entries.

Material examined. BRAZIL. Amapá, Serra do Navio, 18.v.1989, Armadilha suspensa 1,6 m, A.L. Henriques (1 Ƌ, INPA) .

Distribution. Brazil (States of Amapá and Pará) (Fig. 86).