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Quamtana oku Huber 2003

Description

31. Quamtana oku Huber, 2003. Cameroon (Huber 2003c).

New records

CAMEROON: West Region: 13 ♂♂, 24 ♀♀ in ZFMK (Ar 11922), near Mbouda, Bamboutos (5°37.3’N, 10°06.7’E), 2100 m a.s.l., underside of leaves, 19 Apr. 2009 (B.A. & J.C. Huber); 1 ♂ in ZFMK (Ar 11923), same data, had died; 5 ♀♀, 6 juvs in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Cam 153), same data. Northwest Region: 3 ♂♂, 9 ♀♀, 1 juv. in ZFMK (Ar 11924), near Bamenda, at Lake Awing (5°51.7’N, 10°12.0’E), 2100 m a.s.l., underside of leaves, 15 Apr. 2009 (B.A. & J.C. Huber); 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, 5 juvs in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Cam 109), same data. 1 ♂, 8 ♀♀ in ZFMK (Ar 11925), near Oku (6°14.2’N, 10°31.5’E), ~ 2200 m a.s.l., underside of leaves, 17 Apr. 2009 (B.A. & J.C. Huber); 1 ♂ in ZFMK (Ar 11926), same data, had died; 9 ♀♀, 8 juvs in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Cam 85), same data. 1 ♀ in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Cam 118), near Oku, ‘site 2’ (~ 6°15’N, 10°30’E), ~ 1800 m a.s.l., underside of banana leaves, 17 Apr. 2009 (B.A. & J.C. Huber). 1 ♀ in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Cam 88), at Lake Oku (6°12.1’N, 10°27.6’E), 2300 m a.s.l., underside of leaf, 16. Apr. 2009 (B.A. Huber). 1 ♀ in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Cam 121), near Lake Oku (6°11.2’N, 10°27.9’E), 2400 m a.s.l., underside of leaf, 16 Apr. 2009 (B.A. & J.C. Huber). 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀ (2 vials) in ZMUC, forest near Lake Oku (6°12’N, 10°27’E), 2150 m a.s.l., 7-13 Feb. 1992 (Griswold, Larcher, Scharff, Wanzie).

Notes

Published as part of Bernhard A. Huber, Philippe Le Gall & Jacques Francois Mavoungou, 2014, Pholcid spiders from the Lower Guinean region of Central Africa: an overview, with descriptions of seven new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), pp. 1-46 in European Journal of Taxonomy 81 (81) on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.81, http://zenodo.org/record/830852

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZFMK , ZMUC
Material sample ID
Ar 11922 , Ar 11923 , Ar 11924 , Ar 11925 , Ar 11926 , Cam 109 , Cam 118 , Cam 121 , Cam 153 , Cam 85 , Cam 88
Event date
1992-02-07 , 2009-04-15 , 2009-04-16 , 2009-04-17 , 2009-04-19
Verbatim event date
1992-02-07/13 , 2009-04-15 , 2009-04-16 , 2009-04-17 , 2009-04-19
Scientific name authorship
Huber
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Pholcidae
Genus
Quamtana
Species
oku
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Quamtana oku Huber, 2003 sec. Huber, Le & Francois, 2014

References

  • Huber B. A. 2003 a. Cladistic analysis of Malagasy pholcid spiders reveals generic level endemism: revision of Zatavua n. gen. and Paramicromerys Millot (Pholcidae, Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137: 261 - 318. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 1096 - 3642.2003.00046. x
  • Huber B. A. 2003 c. Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana n. gen. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139: 477 - 527. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1046 / j. 0024 - 4082.2003.00082. x
  • Kraus O. 1957. Araneenstudien 1. Pholcidae (Smeringopodinae, Ninetinae). Senckenbergiana biologica 38 (3 / 4): 217 - 243.
  • Huber B. A. 2013. Revision and cladistic analysis of the Guineo-Congolian spider genus Smeringopina Kraus (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 3713: 1 - 160. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3713.1.1