In addition to the genus diagnosis, the following features characterize the species:MALECephalothorax black, surface of eye field pitted, white setae below lateral eyes, a few whitish scales in the foveal area. O. Pickard-Cambridge (1872: 331–332) describes it as follows: ... deep rich brown on the sides with a black margin, the caput is black and encircled by a band of white hairs running round in front immediately beneath the eyes and ending beneath on either side behind the eyes of the hinder row; at the centre of the back of the caput is a white spot ..... Abdomen elongate oval, flattened, covered with brown scutum (almost not visible on O. Pickard-Cambridge’s specimen, abdomen discoloured) with traces of pairs of marginal white spots anteriorly and at the 3/4 length, also single median spot. According to the original description ... dark brown tingled with yellow, its fore half is encircled with a marginal band or stripe of white hairs; and there are six small bright white spots (also formed by white hairs) on its upper surface: two of these spots are placed longitudinally on the centre of its fore half, the foremost of these spots is sometimes obsolete, the other four are on the margins of the hinder half and form a huge trapezoid ... the underside is paler than the upper side, and has an indistinct marginal line of white hairs on either side.Frontal aspect: integument blackish brown covered with white setae, long white setae overhanging cheliceral bases; eyes I surrounded ventrally with white setae, light fawn dorsally. Transversal section of chelicerae triangular with peculiar huge fang and huge prolateral tooth, with an irregular cavity between fang and cheliceral edge. Pedipalps short, brown with cymbium fawn. Legs I robust, dark brown, distinctly different from II–IV which are shorter, slender and light yellow; relation of length of legs in decreasing order I – 100%, IV – 81% , III – 63%, II – 54%; leg I (5 segments only) being 248% of length of cephalothorax (additionally trochanter and coxa I are unusually elongated); striking differences in width: tibia and femur I about twice as wide as tibia and femur of either II, III or IV. Measurements (mm). Male. Length of cephalothorax 1.70; length of abdomen 2.50; length of 5 segments of leg I 5.14. leg length order I, IV, III, II. © PRÓSZYŃSKI 2003 Distribution: Geographical Distribution: Afrika. Eastern Europe & Asia. Middle East. FEMALEResembles male very much, but integument of abdomen soft, without scutum, with greyish mottled darker linear pattern. Cephalothorax like male ... dark brown uniformly clothed with short greyish white hairs .. Frontal aspect like male but chelicerae slender, yellowish brown, fang slender.Abdomen with ... a series of angular lines or chevrons (of which the first is much stronger and more pointed than the rest) are indistinctly visible on the hinder half of the upper side, and also some pale blotches corresponding to the white spots in male .... Legs I robust, like male. Epigynum resembling Bianor. Measurements (mm). Female. Length of cephalothorax 1.93; length of abdomen 2.96. © PRÓSZYŃSKI 2003 Distribution: Geographical Distribution: Afrika. Eastern Europe & Asia. Middle East. COMMENTSDiagnosis. General outlook of body resembling Pseudicius, but differs by spination on swollen tibia I and lack of stridulatory bristles beneath eyes lateral, also angular location of eyes III. Genital organs resembling Bianor. © PRÓSZYŃSKI 2003 |