Palpimanus paroculus Simon, 1910

Zonstein, Sergei L. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2019, On the revisited types of four poorly known African species of Palpimanus (Araneae, Palpimanidae), African Invertebrates 60 (1), pp. 83-95 : 83

Palpimanus paroculus Simon, 1910 Figs 17-20, 21, 22, 23-29

Palpimanus paroculus Simon, 1910: 179 (♀); Griffin and Dippenaar-Schoeman 1991: 158.

Redescription.

Female (lectotype) MNB 14211.

Habitus (Figs 17-22). Carapace and chelicerae moderately rugose, unsclerotised part of abdomen covered with dense fine microsetae mixed with less numerous longer and stouter setae. Measurements: TL ca. 7.00 (abdomen and petiole separated from prosoma), CL 3.32, CW 2.29, CyH 0.28 (0.23 margins), tibia I L/W 1.66 (2.19/1.32). Eyes: AME 0.13, ALE 0.11, PLE 0.09, PME 0.08, AME–AME 0.07, AME–ALE 0.06, ALE–PLE 0.61, PLE–PME 0.34, PME–PME 0.31. Colour in alcohol: Carapace and chelicerae carmine, ventral prosoma, palp and leg I segments from femur to metatarsus and abdominal scuta yellowish-red, other leg segments yellowish-orange, unsclerotised part of abdomen uniformly medium yellowish-brown. Legs: formula 4123. Patella and tibia I with numerous and dense small ventral granules. True undivided scopula on entire ventral and prolateral surface of tibia I; long, entire and prolateral on metatarsus and tarsus I, absent elsewhere. Metatarsi II–IV with ventral brushes of dense setae. PTC each with 4-5 tiny low teeth.

Leg measurements:

Abdomen: dorsal scutum (Ds, Fig. 23) pentagonal, not fused with epigastral one, wider than long (width length ratio 4/3), spaced from epigastral scutum by about 1/8 of maximal width. Epigastral scutum with broad concavity and short petiolar tube (Pt) with transversal wrinkles. Postgastral scutum (Fig. 24) long, stripe-like, fused with epigastral one at lateral edges of book-lung slit.

Copulatory organs (Figs 25-29): endogyne weakly sclerotised, with 6 grape-shaped glands (Gg) on each side, each gland with long stalk, glands without distinct cilia and pore gland, fine threads indistinct (if present), receptacles (Re) sack-like, membranous, without pore glands, laterobasally with one fold (Rf).

Male.

Unknown.

Types.

Lectotype (designated here) ♀, SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape Province, Komaggas (original “Kammagas”; 29°48'S, 17°30'E), vii.1904, L. Schultze (MNB 14211). Paralectotype: 1♀, collected together with the lectotype (MNB 15210).

Distribution.

South Africa (WSC 2019), Namibia (Griffin & Dippenaar-Schoeman 1991).