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by camera lucida attached to stereo- and light microscope. The description format (and abbreviations of body parts) follows the one used by Zabka (1991) (see Figs 2-4). All measurements are given in millimetres. Abbreviations: AEW - anterior eyes width, ag - accessory gland, AL - abdomen length, c cymbium, CH - céphalothorax height, CL - céphalothorax length, co - copulatory opening, CW céphalothorax width, e - embolus, EFL - eye field length, f - femur, fd - fertilisation duct, id - insemination duct, m - metatarsus, pt - patella, PEW - posterior eyes width, s - spermatheca, sr - seminal reservoir, t - tibia, ta - tarsus, tg - tegulum, tf - tegular furrow, tr - trochanter. TAXONOMY Corambis Simon, 1901 Hyctia [part] Simon 1880: 162. Corambis Simon, 1901: 595, 596, 602, 609; Zabka 1988: 422, 443. Type species - Hyctia insignipes Simon, 1880; by original designation (monotypy). Diagnosis - The flat and elongated hairy body is characteristic (Fig. 1 ), males could be recognised by the elongated cymbium, and the large but simple tibial apophysis. As Simon has already pointed out, males have long and strong first legs, first femur, tibia and patella with ventral brush-like setae. Metatarsus I sinuous (more or less). Females with a characteristic epigyne; entrance ducts directed outwards. Insemination ducts short. See generalised copulatory organs at Figs 3-4. Relationships - In general habitus (hairy, elongated, flat body) the genus resembles to the following Holarctic taxa, to which it might be related: Hyctia Simon, 1876; Mendoza Peckham et Peckham, 1894; Marpissa C. L. Koch, 1846. The relationships (and the status) of the above-mentioned taxa are unclear and need further examination and discussion of specialists (see Logunov 1999 and Prószynski'

s Internet Catalogue for details). However, Corambis differs from those by the orientation of the copulatory openings, which are directed outward (Fig. 16). The sperm ducts are shorter than those of the rest of the species of these taxa, and the relatively, simple male palp (Figs 13-15; 19-21) with short embolus is different as well. Unfortunately no synapomorphy has been found to support this relationship. According to the chaetotaxy of the first tibia (its relevance has not been proven yet) - all of those genera have four pairs of spines on the first tibia - it might be possible, that those genera belong the same clade as Corambis. The representatives of the genus also resemble few other Australian- Oceanian genera such as Holoplathys Simon, 1885; Ocrisiona Simon, 1901; Paraplatoides Zabka, 1992 and others. However, Corambis differs from them by having four