Ommatoiulus diplurus ( Attems, 1903 )

Ommatoiulus diplurus ( Attems, 1903) View in CoL

Figs 10–13, 14–26

Schizophyllum (Bothroiulus) diplurum Attems, 1903: 144–145 , Taf. 11, figs 71–72

Schizophyllum hoplites Verhoeff, 1910: 197–198 , figs VIII, XVII, XVII n.syn.

Schizophyllum diplurus hoplites Hoffman 1975: 460

? Schizophyllum diplurum appendiculatum Brolemann, 1925: 147 n.syn.

Ommatoiulus diplurus mauriesi Hoffman, 1975: 460 View in CoL , fig. 5, n.syn.

Material. Type material: Schizophyllum (Bothroiulus) diplurum Attems, 1903 , holotype ♂, slide preparation of the gonopods (NMHW/3157). Non type material: 1 ♂, Cádiz , Algeciras, 20.ii.1912 ( MNCN) ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, ca. 25 Km North of Ronda , under low bush on rocky grassland, in litter, 17.x.1986, P.T. Bailey leg. ( ZMUC) ; 1 ♂, 2 immatures, 8 Km south Grazalema on Ubrique Road, near Ronda in Serranía de Ronda, alt. 1000 m, in oak litter, beneath tree, 16.x.1986, P.T Bailey. Leg. ( ZMUC) ; 2 ♂, 3 immatures, Estepa , East of Sevilla, under small rocks on clay-loan soil, 14.x.1986, P.T. Bailey leg. ( ZMUC) ; 10 ♂, 36 ♀♀, 6 immatures, 9 anterior halves ♀♀, 8 anterior halves immatures, several mid-body and posterior body portions, Carratraca, Lund leg. ( ZMUC) ; 6 ♂, 10 ♀♀, Granada, xi.1908, F. Aranda leg. ( MNCN) ; 1 ♀, Northern part of Los Alcornocales , south road from Cortes de la Frontera to Alcalá de los Gazules forest road south of Peñon del Berrueco, 36º36'21''N, 5º25'8''W, alt. 780m, Oak forest, 8.ii.2008, H. Reip & K. Voigtländer leg. ( ZMUC) GoogleMaps ; 2 ♀♀, Eastern Edge of Grazalema Montejaque between Mures and Cerro de Tavizna, 36º45'14''N, 5º14'16''W, open area, under stones, 7.ii.2008, H. Reip & K. Voigtländer leg. ( ZMUC) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, northern part of Los Alcornocales , southern road from Cortes de la Frontera to Alcalá de Los Gazules , Forest road south of Peñón del Berrueco, 36º35'34''N, 5º25'24''W, Oak forest, 8.ii.2008, H. Reip & K. Voigtländer leg. ( ZMUC) GoogleMaps , 1 ♂, Tahivilla , Cádiz, 36º11'N, 5º45'W, 31.iii.2012, Coll. E. Recuero GoogleMaps ; 1 ♂, Embalse de Almodovar , Facinas, Cádiz, 36º09'N, 5º38'W, 31.iii.2012, Coll. E. Recuero GoogleMaps ; 1 ♂, Hacia La Fernandina , Jaén, 38º07'25''N, 3º35'52''W, 15.12.2005, Coll. E. Recuero. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Differing from all the other Andalusian species by a sinuous promerite, narrowing distally and ending in an acuminate tip pointing posteriorly; a long curved mesomerite bearing subapical processes, and a broad distolateral lamella on the solenomerite with 3 processes connected by a thin jagged lamella to a long, slender lateroposteriad curved accessory branch.

Description. Males: L: ca. 45 mm, H: 4.1–4.5 mm, 49–50 PR+1 AR+T. Females: L: ca. 4 mm, H: 5.3 mm, 50 PR+2 AR+T. Large species, with variable, alternating pale yellowish and dark tawny-brownish to blackish colour. Prozonites blackish-tawny, metazonites anteriorly dark brown-black and posteriorly yellow-whitish, dorsum with black midorsal line, legs reddish-brown, head and telson dark brown. Telson: anal valves with 2 parallel rows of dense short setae on the margin and 4–5 on the disc; subanal scale triangular, protruding and setose; preanal ring with a short caudal projection with 2–2 setae and bearing a small hyaline process.

Gonopods. Promerite ( P) ( Figs 10, 11, 14–19) broadest at the basis, bisinuate, distally tapering and apically with an acuminate tip directed posteriorly ( A), mesal ridge ( Mr) broad at the base, disappearing at midlenght, rudimentary telopodite ( T) basal. Posterior gonopod ( Figs 11–13, 20–33): Mesomerite ( Ms) slightly shorter than promerite, elongate, curved anteromesad, uniformly broad, slightly narrowing apically, lateral margin with a lateral process at midlength and sometimes two smaller ones apically on the mesal margin ( b); solenomerite ( S) complex with accessory branches; main process broad with a distolateral lamella, basally lodging the fovea ( F) and apically protruding into a main branch lodging the opening of the seminal groove ( g), and 2 other processes ( a1, a2) of varied shapes and arrangements, parasolenomerite (main accessory branch: Ps) of the same length or much longer than the mesomerite ( Ms), slender, distally curved and connected to the main process by a basal jagged median lamella with a variable degree of serration bearing a third process ( a3) ( Fig. 11) close to the base of the parasolenomerite ( Ps); paracoxite ( Px) slender and strongly curved, pointing mesad, emerging from a large, broad coxite ( Co), abruptly narrowed at midlength ( Figs 13, 27–33).

Distribution. Granada, ( Attems 1903), Cádiz, Algeciras ( Verhoeff 1910 as Schizophyllum hoplites ); Málaga, Ronda ( Attems 1952); Algeciras, Tarifa ( Brolemann 1928); Sevilla ( Bailey and De Mendonça 1990). Additionally recorded specimens come from Granada and Jaén provinces.

Habitat. Common in grasslands ( Bailey and De Mendonça 1990). Also found in oak litter and under small rocks on clay-loam soil.