Butheolus thalassinus Simon, 1882

Butheolus thalassinus Simon, 1882 View in CoL

( Figs. 151–156 View Figures 151–162 , 163–178 View Figures 163–164 View Figures 165–166 View Figures 167–178 , 338 View Figure 338 , Tab. 6 View Table 6 )

Butheolus thalassinus Simon, 1882: 248–249 View in CoL , pl. VIII, fig. 20;

Butheolus thalassinus: Simon, 1889 View in CoL : Simon, 1890: 122; Kraepelin, 1891: 75; Kraepelin, 1895: 5; Pocock, 1895: 295, 316; Laurie, 1896: 122; Kraepelin, 1899: 37; Kraepelin, 1903: 565; Birula, 1910: 171; Borelli, 1915: 461–462; Birula, 1917a: 215, 230; Birula, 1937: 101; Kästner, 1941: 231; Vachon, 1966: 210; Stahnke, 1972: 129; Sissom, 1994: 7–8, figs. 9–13; Kovařík, 1998b: 105; Fet & Lowe, 2000: 89; Kovařík, 2004: 4 View Cited Treatment , 25; Fet, Soleglad & Lowe, 2005: 2; Lourenço, 2005: 27, fig. 33; Hendrixson, 2006: 56, 61; Acosta et al., 2008: 493; El-Hennawy, 2009: 121; El-Hennawy, 2014: 45; Kovařík & Lowe, 2012: 1–2, 4, 18–23, figs. 7–8, 75, 78, 81, 84, 87, 90, 99, 104; Lowe et al., 2014: 117.

Butheolus ( Butheolus) thalassinus: Vachon, 1980: 255 View in CoL ; El-Hennawy, 1992: 101, 114.

TYPE MATERIAL. Syntypes, Yemen, Aden, MCSN (not examined) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Yemen: 2 ♀, Shaik Ottiman , 9.II.1895 ( BMNH) ; 1 ♂ Ta'izz, 3800 ft a.s.l., 1 0. I.1951, leg. H. Hoogstraal, under rock on Euphorbia Aloe Hill ( WDS).

DIAGNOSIS. A member of the genus Butheolus differentiated as follows: base color deep chocolate brown, with all metasomal segments and telson dark; pedipalps and legs yellow or brownish-yellow; carapace and tergites coarsely granulated; pedipalp patella with dorsomedian carina complete; pedipalp chela with strong dorsal secondary and external secondary carinae, moderate to strong dorsal marginal, digital, external, ventroexternal and ventrointernal carinae; ventral surface between ventromedian carinae of metasoma I with dense coarse and fine granulation; ventral and lateral intercarinal surfaces of metasoma II–V with moderately coarse granulation; metasoma and telson with sparse, short macrosetae; telson with large, broad subaculear tubercle, acute angle between posterior vesicle surface and aculeus base; pedipalp and metasoma stout; pedipalp femur L/W ♂ 2.42; pedipalp patella L/W ♂ 2.25; pedipalp chela L/W ♂ 4.08; metasoma I L/W ♂ 0.75; metasoma IV L/D ♂ 1.24, metasoma V L/D ♂ 1.68, telson L/D ♂ 2.01; pectine teeth ♂ 17–18, ♀ 14–16.