<em>Afropesa</em>, a new spider genus from South Africa (Araneae: Entypesidae)

Sergei L. Zonstein; Duniesky Ríos-Tamayo

Authors

Sergei L. Zonstein Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, 12 Klausner Str., POB 39040, Tel-Aviv, 6139001, Israel. E-mail: serzon56@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4515-0630
Duniesky Ríos-Tamayo Unidad Ejecutora Lillo (CONICET–Fundacion Miguel Lillo), Miguel Lillo 251, Tucuman, Argentina. E-mail: duniesky1979@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6042-1873

Keywords:

biodiversity, Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Entypesidae, Afrotropics, South Africa, new combination, new genus, new species, spiders, systematics, taxonomy

Abstract

A new mygalomorph spider genus, Afropesa n. gen., is established for three South African species: the type species A. schoutedeni (Benoit, 1965) n. comb., transferred here from Entypesa Simon, 1902, and two newly described congeners, A. gauteng n. sp. and A. schwendingeri n. sp. The new genus differs from other genera of the Entypesidae by a unique set of diagnostic characters, including a flanged embolus and the spermathecae with wide bases and lengthened distal lobes. The three included species can be distinguished from each other by a shape of the male tibia and metatarsus I, as well as by the structure of the embolus and configuration of the spermathecae.

Cite as: Zonstein, S.L. & Ríos-Tamayo, D. 2021. Afropesa, a new spider genus from South Africa (Araneae: Entypesidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 51: 7–34.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4719052

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