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dorsoprolateral macrosetae, two or three long proximodorsal 
macrosetae, and two or three distoretrolateral macrosetae (Fig. 28). 
Abdomen without tubercles or abrupt peak (Figs. 20-23). Female 
abdomen 0.98 as wide and 1.38 as high as long, male abdomen 0.70 
as wide and 0.93 as high as long. Distance between cribellum and 
epigastric furrow 0.44 abdomen length. Abdomen and cephalo- 
thorax were separated when the epigynum was removed. Examina- 
tion of the severed petiole revealed no large tracheal trunks, 
indicating that, as in Philoponella and Daramuliana (Opell, 1979 
fig. 1), no tracheae extend into the cephalothorax or, as in Zosis, 
Purumitra, and Octonoba (Opell, 1979; fig. 2), only fine tracheoles 
extend into the cephalothorax. 
Male Palpus. Femur without ventral tubercles. Like Zosis, Puru- 
mitra and Octonoba (Opell, 1979; plates 6-c,d, 7-c,d, fig. 157), 
Conifaber male palpi have a tegular spur which acts as an embolus 
guide (Figs. 14-15). This tegular spur is proportionately larger than 
those of other genera and rests in a tegular groove unique to 
Conifaber. Members of Zosis also have a large, grooved tegular 
spur, but the median apophysis bulb of Conifaber is a plate rather 
than a hemisphere, and its median apophysis spur a grooved plate 
rather than a hook. The tegular spur’s tip may rest in the median 
apopysis spur’s distal groove. 
Epigynum. Two posterior lateral epigynal lobes extend anteriorly 
a short distance, concealing a pair of weakly sclerotized, anteriorly 
directed oval areas (Figs. 24-25). In posterior view the epigynum’s 
posterior plate is 0.6 as high as broad and has slightly curved and 
rounded ventral rim about one third the height of the posterior 
plate (Fig. 26). A highly coiled duct leads from each weakly 
sclerotized oval to a spherical spermatheca whose short fertilization 
duct appears to connect to the vagina’s ventrolateral margin (Fig. 
27). 
Distribution. This genus is known only from the type localities 
in eastern central Colombia. 
Conifaber parvus new species 
Figures 14-15, 20-29 
Types. Male holotype, male paratype, and female paratype 
from Finca Mozambique, 15 km S.W. of Puerto Lopez in the 
