In addition to the genus diagnosis, the following features characterize the species:MALECephalothorax brown with eye field blackish, no lighter areas. Abdomen presumably once dried up, now partly constricted along median longitudinal axis, median streak blackish brown with four transverse branches across marginal white streaks. Legs typical for the genus: I robust with tibia swollen with reduced spines; II-IV slender, yellow. Palpal organ: tibial apophysis more vertical without developed anterior "blade".Measurements (mm). Male. Length of cephalothorax 1.70; length of abdomen 1.82. © PRÓSZYŃSKI 2003 Body: Markings: dark or bright vertical stripes. Eyes: AER: dorsal edge straight. Labium: Length: longer than wide. Distribution: Geographical Distribution: Europe. Afrika. Middle East. FEMALECephalothorax brown with adpressed short whitish setae giving a slightly lighter colour; dark central spot and black lateral edges of the eye field; sides yellow with indistinct whitish setae; a row of 10 dark tubercles with stridulatory setae beneath eyes lateral. Abdomen: white with indistinct traces of two transverse darker yellow lines anteriorly, connected by a short median line of the same colour; distinct posterior black spot (complicated by a pair of small but striking white dots) and a pair of near median brown spots; tip of abdomen white, anal tubercle and dorsal spinnerets dark. Ventrally - abdomen devoid of pigment - a mosaic of white glands impregnated by guanine. Epigynum and its internal structure are shown in Figs 614-615, median loop of the channel semicircularly bent, as long as spermathecae, about half epigynum length. Frontal aspect: clypeus densely covered with long white setae, eyes I surrounded with white setae, legs I and pedipalps yellow. Legs: I robust and long with tibia long but less swollen than usually in the genus, with two short prolateral spines in the apical half.Measurements (mm). Length of cephalothorax 1.82; length of abdomen 2.73. © PRÓSZYŃSKI 2003 Body: Markings: dark or bright vertical stripes. Eyes: AER: dorsal edge straight. Labium: Length: longer than wide. Distribution: Geographical Distribution: Europe. Afrika. Middle East. COMMENTSDiagnosis. Male tibial apophysis single, as long as bulbus, slightly bent dorsally in anterior half, almost parallel to cymbium; female median loop of the copulatory channel semicircularly bent, as long as spermathecae, reaching about half epigynum length.Seasonal appearance of adult specimens. Male - IV; female - XI. © PRÓSZYŃSKI 2003 |