Cymbium

Cymbium small and truncated, covered with long and strong setae.

The male palpus differs from that of other genera by having a large attached paracymbium and a basal hook on the cymbium (Fig.

The horseshoe-shaped indention on the retrolateral side of the cymbium (Fig.

Dorsal face of all tarsi and cymbium with two irregular longitudinal rows of very short claviform trichobothria.

University Aix-Marseille 2, Cymbium, France pp: 187.

Male palp yellowish with dark brown tinges on tegulum; cymbium longer than wide, apically long with two spines - one on apical and one on basal segment; embolus long, coiled; conductor curved and tube like; tibial apophysis blunt, not curved; femur with two short apicodorsal and two long dorsal spines; patella with two mid dorsal spines, one long reaching 1/3 length of cymbium; tibia with two long dorsal spines.

Cymbium tip as long as or slightly longer than conductor width.

The cymbium of these spiders is very characteristic.

Cyb, cymbium; E, embolus; Fd, fertilization duct; Id, insemination duct; Ma, median apophysis; Mp, median plate; Se, septum; Rs, receptaculum (spermatheca); Rta, Retrolateral tibial apophysis; T, tegulum; Wi, window (abbreviations adapted from Kovblyuk, 2003 and Marusik & Fet 2009).

Copula: El macho una vez que logro enganchar el esclerito retrolateral del cymbium con el epigino de la hembra, realiza la unidad Abrazo e Insercion palpal (Fig.