Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57
90 Y. M. Marusik & T. Blick 22) Pseudomogrus ranunculus (Thorell, 1875) comb. nov. (Algeria) 23) Pseudomogrus saliens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) comb. reval. (North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Yemen) 24) Pseudomogrus salsicola (Simon, 1937) comb. nov. (France to Israel) 25) Pseudomogrus shakhsenem (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) comb. nov. (Turkmenistan) 26) Pseudomogrus squamifer (Simon, 1881) comb. nov. (Portugal, Spain) 27) Pseudomogrus tamdybulak (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) comb. nov. (Uzbekistan) 28) Pseudomogrus tschoni (Caporiacco, 1936) comb. nov. (Libya, Egypt, Israel, United Arab Emirates) 29) Pseudomogrus univittatus (Simon, 1871) comb. reval. (France, Turkey, Turkmenistan?) 30) Pseudomogrus validus (Simon, 1889) comb. nov. (Cen- tral Asia to Mongolia) 31) Pseudomogrus vittatus (Thorell, 1875) comb. nov. (East ern Europe to Kazakhstan) 32) Pseudomogrus zaraensis (Logunov, 2009) comb. nov. (Turkey) 33) Pseudomogrus zhilgaensis (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) comb. nov. (Kazakhstan) Comment . Prószyński (1968) and Logunov & Marusik (2003) considered all species of Pseudomogrus to belong to the Yllenus albocinctus- group. Hermosa Peckham& Peckham, 1892, removed from syn. of Myrmarachne MacLeay, 1839 Hermosa Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 53 (type H. volatilis Peckham & Peckham, 1892). Myrmarachne MacLeay, 1839 (type M. melanocephala MacLeay, 1839): Simon 1901: 503 (synonymy of Hermosa ). Myrmavola Prószyński, 2016: 13 (type Damoetas galianoae Prószyński, 2001), syn. nov. New and revalidated combinations . Peckham & Peckham (1892) described Hermosa as a monotypic genus for a new spe- cies from Madagascar. Simon (1901) synonymized Hermosa with Myrmarachne based on a personal communication with L. C. Peckham. Prószyński (2016) placed seven species in his new genus Myrmavola , including H. volatilis .Therefore, Myr- mavola is considered a subjective junior synonym of Hermosa , re-established and removed from synonymy with Myrmarach- ne , and six new combinations and one revalidated combination are proposed (distribution information fromWSC 2019): 1) Hermosa andrewi (Wanless, 1978) comb. nov. (Congo, Angola) 2) Hermosa brevichelicera (Yamasaki & Ahmad, 2013) comb. nov. (Borneo) 3) Hermosa christae (Prószyński, 2001) comb. nov. (Borneo) 4) Hermosa galiano ae (Prószyński, 2001) comb. nov. (Borneo) 5) Hermosa volatilis Peckham & Peckham, 1892 comb. reval. (Madagascar, China, Vietnam) 6) Hermosa yamanei (Yamasaki, 2012) comb. nov. (Sulawesi) 7) Hermosa yamasakii (Prószyński, 2016) comb. nov. (Borneo) Comments . This genus has an unusual range and is known from two distinct regions: 1) Africa (central and southern, Madagascar) and 2) Southeast Asia (South China to Sula- wesi). Hermosa volatilis was described based on females from Madagascar, but the male was described based on specimens from China.Wanless (1978) revised the African Myrmarachne and placed H. volatilis in the volatilis species group together with five other species.Only one of these species, Hermosa an- drewi (Wanless, 1976) comb. nov. , was placed by Prószyński (2016) in the genus Myrmavola .The other species considered by Wanless (1978) in the volatilis -group were transferred by Prószyński (2016) either to Toxeus C. L. Koch, 1846 or re- mained in Myrmarachne (WSC 2019). From a biogeographic point of view it is a quite possible that the African and the Asian members of Hermosa are not congeneric. Comments on Myrmarachne MacLeay, 1839 While splitting Myrmarachne and other genera, Prószyński (2016) did not mention earlier established generic syno- nyms (cf. Edwards 2013 for Myrmarachne s. lat.). At least three of these might be available names for genera split from Myrmarachne by Prószyński (2016): 1) Ascalus Thorell, 1894 (type A. pygmaeus Thorell, 1894, ( from Singapore), synonymized with Myrmarachne by Si- mon (1901: 504).This monotypic genus is known from the original description only and lacks any figures. It could be a synonym of one of Prószyński’s genera, e.g., Myrmaplata Prószyński, 2016, which is also known from Singapore. 2) Herilus Thorell, 1894 (type H. radiatus Thorell, 1894, j from Java), synonymized with Myrmarachne by Bonnet (1957: 2998). This monotypic genus is known from the original figureless description. It could be a synonym of one of Prószyński’s genera described for species occurring in Southeast Asia. 3) Pergasus Thorell, 1894 (type Salticus formosus Thorell, 1890, ( from Sumatra and Sulawesi), synonymized with Myrmarachne by Simon (1901: 504).This monotypic genus was also never illustrated. It could be a synonym of one of Prószyński’s genera, e.g., Myrmatheca Prószyński, 2016, oc- curring in Sumatra. Confusion caused by new nomenclatorial acts Savaiia Marples, 1957 Savaiia Marples, 1957 (type S. punctata Marples, 1957, only ( known) was synonymized with Pseudicius Simon, 1885 by Prószyński (1990: 316). Currently the type species of Savaiia , S. punctata , was transferred by Prószyński (2017b) to Afrafla- cilla Berland & Millot, 1941, but he did not synonymize the genus, so even the transfer of the species was not accepted in the WSC (2019) and Savaiia is still treated as a junior synonym of Pseudicius , but not of Afraflacilla . We compared published figures of the type species of the three genera ( Af- raflacilla bamakoi Berland & Millot, 1941: Żabka 1993: fig. 3A-C ) and fig. 3D-E Afraflacilla sp. ( [ ( of A. bamakoi is unknown]; Pseudicius encarpatus (Walckenaer, 1802): Metzner 1999: pl. 57; Savaiia punctata : Berry et al. 1998: figs 60-61) and agree with Prószyński that S. punctata seems to be closer to Afrafacilla than to Pseudicius . Given that the type species of Afraflacilla is described from Africa, the type species of Pseu- dicius from Europe and Savaiia from Pacific islands, we leave it to a proper revision to clarify the current situation. Hasarina Schenkel, 1963 Hasarina Schenkel, 1963 (type H. contortospinosa Schenkel,
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