Quamtana kitahurira Huber 2003

Quamtana kitahurira Huber, 2003

Figs 106-113

Quamtana kitahurira Huber, 2003c: 513, figs 24, 204-208 (♂, Uganda).

Quamtana kitahurira – Huber & Warui 2012: 12 (♂, Rwanda).

GUINEA: 8 ♂♂ 4 ♀♀ 1 juv. in pure ethanol, in MRAC (236930), Mt. Nimba, Forêt de Zié, near Gouan camp or “Station de Pompage Zié” [7°40’N, 8°26’W], 1250 m a.s.l., canopy fogging of trees and understory shrub layer, 3 Oct. 2011 (D. Van den Spiegel, A. Henrard); 1 ♂ in pure ethanol, in MRAC (236929), same data but beating trees and shrubs with hanging litter at 1.5-3 m above ground. ANGOLA: 1 ♂ in SMF (Ang 59.1), near Dundo [~ 7°23’S, 20°51’E], gallery forest of Chilanda river, in bushes, 4 Oct. 1946 (A. de Barros Machado).

In general similar to male, habitus as in Figs 106-108; entire animal pale ochre-gray, abdomen light yellow-greenish; tibia 1: 3.4, 3.5, 3.8. Epigynum very simple externally, strongly protruding but weakly sclerotized, with pair of pockets not visible in dissecting microscope (Fig. 110; arrows in Fig. 112); internal genitalia as in Figs 111, 113.

Apparently widely distributed in tropical Africa, but so far only recorded from Uganda, Rwanda, Guinea, and Angola.

The male from Angola has a slightly more slender procursus but it otherwise identical to specimens from Guinea and East Africa; tibia 1: 4.0.