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Hexophthalma spatulata

Creators

Description

Hexophthalma spatulata (Pocock, 1900)

Figs 16, 22–23, 25

Sicarius spatulatus Pocock, 1900: 321.

Sicarius spatulatus – Newlands 1986: 56. — Lotz 2012: 10.

Hexophthalma spatulata – Magalhaes et al. 2017: 853, figs 6A–D, 12C, 14D, 18H, 19D, 20E–F, 22A–E, 23D–F, 31H.

Diagnosis

Leg femora in both sexes with scoop-shaped enlarged dorsal setae (Fig. 23), differing from the setae of all other species. Female inner spermathecae consist of a broad chamber, extending anteriorly in numerous tubes, each ending in one or more spherical vesicles (Fig. 16), differing from all other species,where the inner spermathecae are finger-like sacs. Male embolus ending in a broad, blunt triangular apex (Fig. 22), whereas the embolus of all the other species have thin apices.

Material examined

SOUTH AFRICA – Eastern Cape Province: 5 ♂♂, 1 ♀, 2 imm., Alicedale [33°18′ S, 26°05′ E], Dec. 1914, F. Cruden leg. (AMSA); 1 ♀, same data as for preceding (AMSA 2525). – Western Cape Province: 1 ♂, Borrelfontein, 8 km W of Gouritz River mouth, 34°20′ S, 21°51′ E, 4 Mar. 2007, H. Leibel leg. (PPRI 2008/745); 1 ♂, same data as for preceding but Nov. 2007 – May 2008 (PPRI 2009/5601); 1 ♂, Bredasdorp [34°32′ S, 20°03′ E] (SAMC B7435); 4 ♀♀, Calidon [34°14′ S, 19°26′ E] (SAMC 8348); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 2 imm., same data as preceding but W.F. Purcell leg. (SAMC B363); 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, 1 imm., Hermanus [34°25′ S, 19°13′ E], (SAMC 11632, B8482); 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, 5 imm., Houwhoek, 3419Aa (SAMC 8327); 1 ♂, Kammanasie Nature Reserve, 33°39′ S, 22°44′ E, 31 Jul. 2003, Reserve Staff leg. (PPRI 2010/2403); 1 ♀, Piquetberg, 3218Dd (SAMC B8490); 1 ♀, Swellendam, Tradows Pass [33°58′ S, 20°42′ E] (SAMC B6767).

Natural history

Hexophthalma spatulata have been collected in a Fynbos biome.

Distribution

Hexophthalma spatulata is distributed along the southern coastal areas of South Africa (Fig. 25).

Notes

Published as part of Lotz, Leon N., 2018, An update on the spider genus Hexophthalma (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Afrotropical region, with descriptions of new species, pp. 1-18 in European Journal of Taxonomy 424 on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.424, http://zenodo.org/record/1255328

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMSA , PPRI , SAMC
Event date
2003-07-31 , 2007-03-04
Family
Sicariidae
Genus
Hexophthalma
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
AMSA 2525 , PPRI 2008/745 , PPRI 2009/5601 , PPRI 2010/2403 , SAMC 11632, B8482 , SAMC 8327 , SAMC 8348 , SAMC B363 , SAMC B6767 , SAMC B7435 , SAMC B8490
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Pocock
Species
spatulata
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2003-07-31 , 2007-03-04
Taxonomic concept label
Hexophthalma spatulata (Pocock, 1900) sec. Lotz, 2018

References

  • Pocock R. I. 1900. Some new Arachnida from Cape Colony. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7 6 (31): 316 - 333. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930008678382
  • Newlands G. 1986. Necrotic Arachnidism in Southern Africa. Unpublished Ph. D. thesis. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
  • Lotz L. N. 2012. Present status of Sicariidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in the Afrotropical region. Zootaxa 3522: 1 - 41.
  • Magalhaes I. L. F., Brescovit A. D. & Santos A. J. 2017. Phylogeny of Sicariidae spiders (Araneae: Haplogynae), with a monograph on Neotropical Sicarius. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179 (4): 767 - 864.