Elephant-trunk Artoria Artoria proboscidea Prado, Baptista & Framenau, 2026

Males of Artoria proboscidea resemble those of A. howquaensis, A. palustris and A. parvula by their male pedipalp bearing a tegular apophysis with similar general shape, being broader apically with a rounded prolateral margin and rounded retrolateral margin which bears an acute ventral projection. However, males of A. proboscidea can be distinguished from the latter three species by their tegular apophysis with its apical prolateral portion much more projected prolaterally forming a much more concave angle on the prolateral margin of the tegular apophysis between its narrow basal portion and wide apical portion. In addition, their tegular apophyses differ by their apical retrolateral ventral acute projection not very pronounced, convex apical margin and embolus wider not curved retrolaterally and terminal apophysis with a conspicuous projection directed basally and curved ventrally, absent in the other aforementioned species. Females of A. proboscidea are easily distinguishable from the remaining species of Artoria by their epigyne with median septum bearing a large and protuberant scape-like process resembling an elephant’s proboscis with a wider elliptical anterior portion and a much narrower rounded median portion projecting posteriorly.

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