Parabomis levanderi Kulczyński, 1901

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Parabomis levanderii Kulczyński, 1901: 3, 30, figs 25–27 (Holotype ³: ERITREA: Ghinda, 15°27’N, 39°05’E, leg. K.M. Levander, FMNH—examined).

Diagnosis. Males resemble those of P. martini in colour and the shield-like abdomen, but in P. levanderi the dorsum has two longitudinal series of black spots dorsally in depressions, which are absent in P. levanderi . Parabomis levanderi is the only male where the palp has the RTA two-pronged, with the one lobe longer and slightly hooked (Fig. 9).

Description. Holotype male. Measurements: TL 1.9; CL 1.1; CW 1.1. Legs: I 2.17 (0.65, 0.35, 0.47, 0.36, 0.34); II 2.14 (0.65, 0.34, 0.46, 0.36, 0.33); III (missing); IV 1.64 (0.52, 0.29, 0.34, 0.23, 0.26). Carapace chestnut brown, with dark patches laterally; posterior declivity yellow; clypeus mottled, with paler longitudinal infusions; carapace as wide as long, with deep posterior declivity; edge of declivity bearing numerous small tubercles; integument with scattered tubercles, each bearing club-shaped seta. Mouthparts and chelicerae paler than carapace. Sternum dark reddish brown, with narrow white margin, integument granulose. Legs: coxae dark; trochanters yellow; anterior femora black; patella yellow; anterior tibiae dark reddish brown; tarsi dark red; each segment distinctly rimmed with white. Abdomen: dorsum white, with shield-like dark area. Male palp with small fused VTA, RTA two-pronged (Fig. 9).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality (Fig. 32).