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| May bruno Jäger & Krehenwinkel, 2015 Figs 46–49. May bruno gen. n. sp. n. from Witsand, South Africa: (46) habitat; (47) burrow with opened lid; (48–49) habitus of live spider.
(Figs 46–47, 49) by Jon Leroy; (48) by Dirk Kunz.
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Abstract
A new genus of huntsman spiders, May gen. n. is described from southern Africa, together with four new species: M. bruno sp. n. (♂, ♀; South Africa), M. ansie sp. n. (♂; Namibia), M. rudy sp. n. (♂; Namibia) and M. norm sp. n. (♀; Namibia). Diagnostic characters proposed include not only those for the genus but also for the so-called African clade. Unique within the entire family are the reduction of the gnathocoxal serrula and the prolaterad embolus. Special claw tuft setae and metatarsi I to III with three prolateral and retrolateral spines, respectively, occur in the entire African clade. A proximal cymbial shoulder in the male palp, the fused lateral lobes of the epigyne and the prolateral proximal spine of leg I shifted to a median position is characteristic for May gen. n. A family-wide analysis of genetic distance in the nuclear 28SrDNA gene (28s), including M. bruno sp. n., supports its isolated placement and thus the genus hypothesis.
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| Special tufts of setae allow the spider to remain on the sand’s surface.
photo: Senckenberg/Kunz
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| May bruno gen. n. sp. n. from Witsand, South Africa
photo: Jon Leroy
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P. Jäger and H. Krehenwinkel. 2015. May gen. n. (Araneae: Sparassidae): A Unique Lineage from southern Africa supported by Morphological and Molecular features. African Invertebrates. 56(2); 365–392.
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New Genus, Four New Species of Huntsman Spiders Discovered in Southern Africa:
Sci-News.Com/biology/science-genus-may-huntsman-spiders-03248.html
Sci-News.Com/biology/science-genus-may-huntsman-spiders-03248.html
Four new species of huntsman spiders have been discovered in southern Africa
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