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Smeringopus cylindrogaster Simon 1907

Description

32. Smeringopus cylindrogaster (Simon, 1907) . Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana (Simon 1907; Huber 2009, 2012).

New records

GUINEA: 1 ♀ 1 juv. in pure ethanol, in MRAC (236933), Mt. Nimba, Gouan Forest Centre [7°42’N, 8°24’W], beating trees and shrubs with hanging litter at 1.5-3 m above ground, 1250 m a.s.l., 8 Oct. 2011 (D. Van den Spiegel, A. Henrard).

IVORY COAST: 1 ♀ in MRAC (230346 part), Taï Forest, Centre de Recherche Ecologique (CRE) [5°50’N, 7°21’W], beating in forest near Chimpanzee Camp, 22 Feb. 2010 (R. Jocqué, M. Diarassouba); 1 ♀ in MRAC (230146 part), same locality, at foot of trees, by hand, 22 Feb. 2010 (R. Jocqué); 1 ♀ 1 juv. in MRAC (230281), same data but forest near river, 22 Feb. 2010 (R. Jocqué, M. Diarassouba); 1 ♀ in MRAC (230244), same locality, forest E of camp, “layon Gérard”, inundated forest, sieved litter, 20 Feb. 2010 (R. Jocqué, L. Oulaï); 2 ♀♀ in MRAC (230296), same locality, forest across river, forest on clayey soil, beating, 20 Feb. 2010 (R. Jocqué, M. Diarassouba); 1 ♀ in MRAC (233643), Taï Forest, beating, 1 Sep. 2010 (D. Van den Spiegel, A. Kablan); 2 juvs in MRAC (230360 part), Adiopo Doumé [5°20’N, 4°20’W], Centre Suisse de Recherche Scientifique (CSRS), small dry forest, sieving litter, 26 Feb. 2010 (D. van den Spiegel, R. Jocqué).

GHANA: Central Region: 1 ♀ in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Gha 149), Kakum National Park (5°20.9’N, 1°23.0’W), 160 m a.s.l., forest near entrance, day collecting, 19 Feb. 2013 (B.A. Huber); 1 ♂ 1 ♀ 1 juv. in MRAC (217296 part), Kakum Forest, beating in secondary forest, 23 Nov. 2005 (R. Jocqué, D. de Bakker, L. Baert). Eastern Region: 3 ♀♀ in ZFMK (Ar 10505), Atewa Hills, Atewa Atwirebu Reserve (6°13.8’N, 0°33.5’W), 740 m a.s.l., 25 Feb. 2013 (B.A. Huber); 1 ♀ in ZFMK (Ar 10506), near Mpraeso (6°34.1’N, 0°43.9’W), 370 m a.s.l., degraded forest near road, 10 Mar. 2013 (B.A. Huber). Western Region: 1 ♂ in ZFMK (Ar 10507), Ankasa National Park (5°13.0’N, 2°39.1’W), 180 m a.s.l., forest near entrance, day collecting, 22 Feb. 2013 (B.A. Huber); 3 ♂♂ 5 ♀♀ 1 juv. (2 vials) in ZFMK (Ar 10508- 09), same data but night collecting; 1 ♂ 1 juv. in pure ethanol, in ZFMK (Gha 157), same data.

Notes

Published as part of Huber, Bernhard A. & Kwapong, Peter, 2013, West African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of five new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), pp. 1-44 in European Journal of Taxonomy 59 on page 17, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2013.59, http://zenodo.org/record/1406590

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  • Simon E. 1907. Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la cote occidentale d'Afrique. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova 43: 218 - 323.
  • Huber B. A. 2009. Life on leaves: leaf-dwelling pholcids of Guinea, with emphasis on Crossopriza cylindrogaster Simon, a spider with inverted resting position, pseudo-eyes, lampshade web, and tetrahedral egg-sac (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 43 (39 - 40): 2491 - 2523. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930903207876
  • Huber B. A. 2012. Revision and cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical endemic genus Smeringopus Simon, 1890 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 3461: 1 - 138.