Neumania ( Soarella ) comorosensis Pešić & Smit, 2015

Neumania ( Soarella) comorosensis Pešić & Smit n. sp.

( Figs. 1A–F View FIGURES 1 A – F )

Type material. Holotype female ( MNHN), Comoros, Mayotte, River Djalimou, upstream, 12°56'58,4"S, 45°07'23,7"E, alt. 165m asl., 30-viii-2014.

Diagnosis (Male unknown): Glandularia and excretory pore on small-sized, projected, conical tubercles; genital field with 13 pairs of acetabula; genital plates distinctly shorter than gonopore ( Fig. 1C View FIGURES 1 A – F )

Description. Female: Integument covered by densely-arranged spines. Dorsum with small-sized tubercles and three pairs of small platelets, the arrangement of which is illustrated in Fig. 1A View FIGURES 1 A – F . Excretory pore sclerite elevated and conical, lying at posterior idiosoma margin. Apodemes of first coxal group large, posterior extending to the centre of Cx-IV ( Fig. 1B View FIGURES 1 A – F ). Posterior margin of Cx-IV centrally with a prominent, finger-shaped projection; insertion of IV-L with a hookshaped projection. P-2 longer than P-4, P-4 with a short peg-like seta located distally to middle of ventral margin ( Figs. 1E–F View FIGURES 1 A – F ). Legs: swimming setae numbers: II-L-5, 2; III-L-4, 5; III-L-5, 3; IV-L-4, 3-4; IV-L-5, 3.

Measurements. Idiosoma L/W 715/630; coxal field: L 435, Cx-III W 450, W between lateral corners of Cx-IV 525; individual genital plates L/W 86/34, gonopore L 147. Palp: Total L 223, dL/H, dL/H ratio: P-1, 25/31, 0.8; P-2, 85/39, 2.2; P-3, 31/34, 0.91; P-4, 57/28, 2.1; P-5, 25/15, 1.6; L P-2/P-4 ratio 1.5. Gnathosoma (with apodemes) vL 138. Chelicera total L 143, basal segment L 88, claw L 58, L basal segment/claw ratio 1.5. Legs: dL of I-L-1-6: 52, 97, 99, 148, 152, 140; dL of IV-L-1-6: 85, 100, 89, 155, 188, 148.

Male: unknown.

Etymology. Named after the archipelago ( Comoros) where the new species was found.

Remarks. The new species resembles Neumania ( Soarella) tuberculata Cook, 1966 and N. thori K. Viets, 1913, both known from West Africa. The latter species, described by K. Viets (1913) from Cameroon is assigned to Soarella with a question mark (see K.O. Viets 1987) as it apparently lacks an excretory pore tubercle. Neumania tuberculata, known from a single female from Liberia (Cook 1966) can be distinguished from the new species by having a setal tubercle on the ventral margin of P-4, moderately-sized glandularia and excretory pore sclerites, a higher number of Ac (25–27 on each side) and a comparatively shorter gonopore.

Distribution. Comoros ( Mayotte), known only from the locus typicus.