Survey of the Ethiopian linyphiid spider fauna. I. Subfamily Erigoninae (Arachnida, Araneae, Linyphiidae)

Abstract

Eight identifiable species of the linyphiid spider subfamily Erigoninae have been reviled from the Oromia Region, Ethiopia, seven of which being described as new: Callitrichia asela n. sp. (♂, ♀), Callitrichia protegularis n. sp. (♂, ♀), Microcyba magna n. sp. (♂, ♀), Microcyba oromia n. sp. (♂, ♀), Pelecopsis arsi n. sp. (♂, ♀), Savignia ericola n. sp. (♂), and Walckenaeria (Tigellinus) trivialis n. sp. (♂, ♀). The cosmopolitan Ostearius melanopygius (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880) is reported from Ethiopia for the first time.