Cepheia longiseta ( Simon, 1894 )

LOPARDO, LARA, HORMIGA, GUSTAVO & MELIC, ANTONIO, 2007, Spinneret Spigot Morphology in Synaphrid Spiders (Araneae, Synaphridae), with Comments on the Systematics of the Family and Description of a New Species of Synaphris Simon 1894 from Spain, American Museum Novitates 3556 (1), pp. 1-28 : 9

Cepheia longiseta ( Simon, 1894)

figures 63–80

DESCRIPTION OF SPIGOT MORPHOLOGY: Male: Colulus large, fleshy, triangular, about half length and width of ALS, with three setae (figs. 63, 64). ALS (figs. 65, 66) with one MAP spigot, accompanied by a nubbin and a tartipore, separated by weak (almost nonexistent) furrow from PI field. PI field, on external side of ALS, contains three PI spigots with reduced bases, posterior PI spigot base larger. PMS (figs. 67, 68) with two spigots of similar morphology, chemosensory seta (can be confused with spigot) located anteriorly; externally, its base deepens around shaft. PLS (figs. 69–71) with two spigots of slightly different morphology clumped in same field. Internal one with rounded, larger base and more cylindrical shaft, external one with oval base and tapering shaft. Short, thick chemosensory seta (can be confused with a small spigot) located more basally on internal side of distal PLS segment.

Female: Colulus large, fleshy, triangular, about half length and width of ALS, with four setae (figs. 72, 73). Spinnerets as in male, except: four PI spigots (instead of three) on ALS (figs. 74, 75); one external CY spigot on PMS (figs. 76–78); and one internal CY on PLS (figs. 79, 80).

MATERIAL EXAMINED: 1♂ and 1♀ paralectotypes from FRANCE (‘‘Gallia’’) coll. Simon 4538, b.849 ( MNHN-AR 1059 ).

DISTRIBUTION: Cepheia longiseta has been collected from dry regions and coastal areas of the western Mediterranean region in southern France ( Simon, 1881, 1894, 1926; Denis, 1933a,b; Brignoli, 1970), northern Italy ( Bertkau, 1890; Thaler and Noflatscher, 1990), southern Spain ( Wunderlich, 1980; Thaler and Noflatscher, 1990), and southern Austria ( Thaler, 1993). John Murphy (personal commun.) has collected C. longiseta in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula ( Portugal: Algarve Province, Faro; Spain: Almeria and Malaga Provinces) and the Baleares Islands (see fig. 1 ).

Figures

Fig. 1. Map showing the geographic distribution of the described species of Cepheia and Synaphris around the Mediterranean region in Europe. For the geographic distribution of the recent species from Madagascar, see Miller (in press). For Synaphris, each location represents one described species. For Cepheia, all locations represent the geographical distribution of Cepheia longiseta.