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A North American species of the genus Sphecozone O.P.-Cambridge, 1870 (Araneae:Linyphiidae) PDF

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168 Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. (1993) 9 (5), 168 A North American species of the genus Sphecozone clothed with short, pale-coloured hairs. Legs pale yellow- O. P.-Cambridge, 1870 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) ish white, clothed with pale hairs; moderately stout, with tibia 11/d 7. Tibiae I-III spineless, tibia IV with one weak A. F. Millidge spine; Tml c. 0.4, metatarsus IV without trichobothrium. 8 White Lodge, Palp (Figs. 1-3): rather large relative to size of spider Coastguard Road, (tibia+cymbium c. two-thirds length of carapace). Budleigh Salterton, Material: Only the holotype. Devon, EX9 6NU Introduction Numerous species of Sphecozone are known from South America (Millidge, 1985, 1991), but hitherto the genus was thought to be absent from Central and North America. One species is now reported from Arizona, USA. Sphecozone magnipalpis, new species (Figs. 1-4) Type: Male holotype from Santa Rita Mts., Madera Co., Arizona, 1900 m, 1-2 August 1952 (H. B. Leech and J. W. Green); deposited in Natural History Museum, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Etymology: The specific name is a Latin adjective meaning "with ajarge palp". Diagnosis: The male is diagnosed by the form of the palp. The tibia has large apophyses, the ectal one being laminar distally (Figs. 1, 3). As in all Sphecozone species, Figs. 1—4: Sphecozone magnipalpis, male. 1 Palp, ectal; 2 Palp, mesal; the palpal cymbium is hollowed on the ectal side and there 3 Palpal tibia, dorsal; 4 Carapace, lateral. Scale lines is no paracymbium. The embolic division of the palpal = 0.1 mm. organ has a long radical part with a short curved tail; the embolus arises from the anterior of the radical part and Acknowledgement forms a short coil which runs to the ectal side of the I am grateful to W. J. Pulawski, California Academy of organ (Figs. 1, 2). These palpal characters distinguish S. Sciences, San Francisco, for providing the specimen. magnipalpis from all other known Sphecozone species. The female is unknown. Male: Total length 1.80 mm. Carapace: length 0.90 mm; References pale yellow, suffused with brown anteriorly, and with MILLIDGE, A. F. 1985: Some linyphiid spiders from South America ocular area weakly suffused with black; profile (Fig. 4). (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Am.Mus.Novit. 2836: 1-78. Eyes: moderate in size, with posteriors c. 1.5d apart. MILLIDGE, A. F. 1991: Further linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from Chelicerae with lateral file. Abdomen black, fairly glossy, South America. Bull.Am.Mus.nat.Hist. 205: 1-199.

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