identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
039787936B025A374BD8F85CFED5FE5C.text	039787936B025A374BD8F85CFED5FE5C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Haplodrassus occultus (Benoit 1965) Sherwood & Jocqué 2025	<div><p>Haplodrassus occultus (Benoit, 1965) comb. nov. (Figs 1A–H)</p><p>Allodrassus occultus Benoit, 1965: 307, figs. 12–15 (♀).</p><p>Echemella occulta: Murphy &amp; Russell-Smith, 2007: 16.</p><p>Type material. Holotype ♀ (RMCA 128.449), Plateau des Bateke [= Batéké Plateau], 65 km E. de Leopoldville [= Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo] dans nid de [= in the nest of] Cubitermes sankuruensis Wasmann, 19 August 1964, leg. A. Bouillon.</p><p>Diagnosis. The female of Haplodrassus occultus comb. nov., a small species, is characterized by the epigyne with a narrow fovea (sensu Bosmans et al. 2018) with straight lateral margins and lateral pockets placed anterior to them, forming an introductory opening wider than the fovea’s width, a well-developed incurved hood, and large triangular spermathecae. This combination of characters distinguishes it from all other known females of Haplodrassus .</p><p>Description of epigyne and vulva. Epigyne (Figs. 1F–G) longer than wide with central fovea narrow with straight margins, atrium U-shaped; lateral pockets placed above lateral margins, forming an introductory opening wider than the fovea’s width, in front of spermathecae; hood about 0.75 times the width of the epigyne, with anterior margin procurved. Vulva (Fig. 1H) with spermathecae large, triangular.</p><p>Male. Unknown.</p><p>Distribution. Known only from the type locality, Batéké Plateau, 65 kilometres East of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.</p><p>Remarks. We present photographs of the habitus, the eyes region and one undissected chelicera (Figs. 1A–E). The description of somatic characters (e.g. cheliceral teeth, spination) by Benoit (1965) is accurate and we therefore do not repeat any of these data in the text. As can be seen from the genitalia (Figs 1F–H), the U-shaped atrium is characteristic of Haplodrassus, which now contains a variety of African species (Marusik &amp; Haddad, 2025). Therefore, based on its genital morphology, we propose the transfer of Echemella occulta to Haplodrassus creating the new combination Haplodrassus occultus comb. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039787936B025A374BD8F85CFED5FE5C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Sherwood, Danniella;Jocqué, Rudy	Sherwood, Danniella, Jocqué, Rudy (2025): On the generic affiliation of “ Echemella ” occulta (Benoit, 1965) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5711 (4): 596-598, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.9, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.9
