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Figs 1–10. May bruno gen. n in May gen. n. (Araneae: Sparassidae): a unique lineage from southern Africa supported by morphological and molecular features

Figs 1–10. May bruno gen. n. sp. n. from Witsand, South Africa, holotype ♂: (1–4) left ♂ palp (1) ventral, (2) retrolateral, (3) distal tegulum, prolateral, (4) RTA, dorsal; (5–6) eye arrangement (5) frontal, (6) dorsal); (7) leg I, prolateral; (8) leg claw; (9) gnathocoxae and labium, ventral; (10) cheliceral dentition, ventral. Abbreviations: C – conductor; E – embolus; S – "shoulder" of basal cymbium.

Figs 111–119 in May gen. n. (Araneae: Sparassidae): a unique lineage from southern Africa supported by morphological and molecular features

Figs 111–119. (111–115) Thelcticopis sp. from Hong Kong and (116–119) Olios sp. from Laos: (111, 116) tarsus tip, dorsal; (112, 117) tarsus tip, lateral; (113, 118) tarsus tip, ventral; (114) sternum, ventral, showing slit sense organs; (115, 119) leg I, prolateral. Abbreviations: IP – plate of indented claw tuft setae; TS – transverse suture with slit sensilla.

Figs 14–18 in The life and times of Africa's First Lady of Arachnology, Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman

Figs 14–18. (14) Group photograph from the 15th International Congress of Arachnology, held at Badplaas in 2001, which was organised under the leadership of Ansie (arrow); (15) Ansie spending some time with fellow delegates at the Badplaas congress: from left to right, Jan Bosselaers, Seppo Koponen, Suresh Benjamin and Pekka Lehtinen; (16) The South African contingent at the 17th International Congress of Arachnology, held in Brazil in 2007: from left to right, Lorenzo Prendini, Ansie, Leon Lotz, Charles Haddad and Stefan Foord; (17) Ansie, Charles Griswold and Astri Leroy share a lighter moment at the congress dinner of the 10th Colloquium of the African Arachnological Society, Rhemardo, 2011; (18) Ansie bids farewell to colleagues at a party held in her honour at the Plant Protection Research Institute in Pretoria in 2013. Photographs courtesy of Leon Lotz (14), Robin Lyle (15, 18), Charles Haddad (16) and Astri Leroy (17).

Figs 5–13 in The life and times of Africa's First Lady of Arachnology, Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman

Figs 5–13. Some of the books that Ansie has published, co-authored or contributed chapters towards: (5) First Atlas of the Spiders of South Africa [2010]; (6) African Spiders: an Identification Manual [1997]; (7) Spider Families of the World [2006]; (8) How to Collect and Preserve Insects and Arachnids [1996]; (9) Spiders of the Kalahari [2010]; (10) Goggo Guide [2010]; (11) Spiders of the Savanna Biome [2013]; (12) Spiders of the Grassland Biome [2014]; (13) Field Guide to the Spiders of South Africa [2014].

Figs 50–54. May ansie gen. n in May gen. n. (Araneae: Sparassidae): a unique lineage from southern Africa supported by morphological and molecular features

Figs 50–54. May ansie gen. n. sp. n., holotype ♂ from Kokerboom Forest, Namibia: (50–52) left ♂ palp: (50) ventral, (51) retrolateral, (52) detail of embolus, ventral; (53) chelicerae, ventral; (54) eye arrangement, dorsal. Abbreviations: C – conductor; DE – dorsal extension of proximal embolus; RE – round extension of distal embolus; S – "shoulder" of basal cymbium.

Figs 1–4 in The life and times of Africa's First Lady of Arachnology, Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman

Figs 1–4. (1) Ansie enjoying tea with some colleagues from the Biosystematics division at the Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI). In the background are the many files with taxonomic literature on African spiders that would form the basis for the African Arachnid Database; (2) The storage room in the new Biosystematics building, with large numbers of spiders awaiting identification by Ansie; (3) Part of the Arachnology collection housed at the PPRI; (4) Ansie and Rudy Jocqué (right), together with Dr Jons Terblanche (former president of the Agricultural Research Council, centre), at the launch of their African Spiders book. Photographs courtesy of Robin Lyle.

Figs 70–77. May rudy gen. n in May gen. n. (Araneae: Sparassidae): a unique lineage from southern Africa supported by morphological and molecular features

Figs 70–77. May rudy gen. n. sp. n., holotype ♂ from Copper Valley, Namibia: (70–72) habitus of preserved spider: (70) dorsal, (71) ventral, (72) frontal; (73–75) ♂ palp: (73) ventral, (74) retrolateral, (75) RTA, dorsal); (76–77) tarsal tips, showing additional claw tufts with Lawrence setae (black arrows) and claw tuft penetrating dorsal setae (white arrow): (76) lateral, (77) ventral.

Figs 18–19. May bruno gen. n in May gen. n. (Araneae: Sparassidae): a unique lineage from southern Africa supported by morphological and molecular features

Figs 18–19. May bruno gen. n. sp. n., ♀ from Twee Riviere, South Africa (PJ 3536): (18) epigyne, ventral; (19) vulva, dorsal.

Figs 20–33. May bruno gen. n in May gen. n. (Araneae: Sparassidae): a unique lineage from southern Africa supported by morphological and molecular features

Figs 20–33. May bruno gen. n. sp. n. from South Africa (♀ paratypes from Witsand, ♀ from Twee Rivieren): (20–22) tarsus tip: (20) ventral, (21) lateral, (22) dorsal); (23) ♀ palpal claw, lateral; (24–25) Lawrence setae; (26–29) prosoma of ♀♀, showing positions of dorsal marks (white arrows in Fig. 26); (30) metatarsal stopper, dorsal; (31) eye arrangement, dorsal; (32) cheliceral dentition, ventral; (33) gnathocoxae, ventro-distal, showing reduced serrula (black arrow). Abbreviations: AP – plate of Lawrence setae; DP – dorsal plate of elongated setae; IP – plate of indented claw tuft setae; TS – transverse suture with slit sensilla.

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Fig. 1 in Two new species of madicolous water beetle from South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)

Fig. 1. Habitus of Coelometopon and Oomtelecopon species. (a) C. glenavoni sp. n., holotype; (b) O. disjunctum sp. n., holotype; (c) O. setosus. Scale bar = 1 mm.

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Fig. 3 in Two new species of madicolous water beetle from South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)

Fig. 3. Type locality of C. glenavoni sp. n., Glen Avon Falls, Boschberg, Somerset East. (a) general view of falls and surrounding habitat; (b) close up of rockfaces with seepages occupied by Coelometopon.

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Figs 6–11 in Four new narrow-range endemic species of Gulella from Eastern Cape, South Africa (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae)

Figs 6–11. Gulella dejae sp. n., holotype. 6, 7, apertural and lateral views of shell, length = 2.8 mm; 8, enlarged view of the aperture, bar = 0.3 mm; 9, umbilical region, bar = 0.3 mm; 10, detail of sculpture (start of last whorl), bar = 50 µm; 11, microsculpture on embryonic shell, bar = 40 µm.

Figs 7, 8 in A new stenopterous genus of the tribe Gaetuliini Fennah (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Tropiduchidae) from southern Africa - particular intercontinental convergence

Figs 7, 8. Kamieskroon, type locality of Afroelfus bothryogaster gen. et sp. n. (Photos by J. Deckert)

Figs 1–4 in A new stenopterous genus of the tribe Gaetuliini Fennah (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Tropiduchidae) from southern Africa - particular intercontinental convergence

Figs 1–4. Afroelfus bothryogaster gen. et sp. n., holotype: (1) dorsal view; (2) lateral view; (3) frontal view; (4) ovipositor, lateral view.

Fig. 7 in A new genus of lauxaniid fly from South Africa (Diptera: Acalyptratae: Lauxaniidae), associated with proteas (Proteaceae)

Fig. 7. Proteaphila pajori sp. n., ♂: (A) habitus image showing intricately patterned wings with reticulated brown markings, scale bar = 1 mm; (B) head, dorsal view, scale bar = 0.5 mm; (C) thorax, dorsal view, scale bar = 0.5 mm; (D) head, lateral view, scale bar = 0.5 mm.

Fig. 6 in A new genus of lauxaniid fly from South Africa (Diptera: Acalyptratae: Lauxaniidae), associated with proteas (Proteaceae)

Fig. 6. Proteaphila maculosa sp. n., ♂: (A) habitus image showing intricately patterned wings with longitudinal brown markings, scale bar = 1 mm; (B) head, dorsal view, scale bar = 0.5 mm; (C) thorax, dorsal view, scale bar = 1 mm; (D) head, lateral view, scale bar = 0.5 mm.

Figs 1, 2 in A new genus of lauxaniid fly from South Africa (Diptera: Acalyptratae: Lauxaniidae), associated with proteas (Proteaceae)

Figs 1, 2. (1) Proteaphila stuckenbergorum sp. n., dorsal aspect of head, showing deployment of alveoli and postfrontal vittae, scale bar = 0.5 mm; (2A) schematic illustration of thorax (lateral view); (2B) schematic illustration of thoracic vittae; (2C) dorsal view of thorax, scale bar = 1 mm.

Fig. 5 in Oribatid mites of the genus Eremulus Berlese, 1908 (Acari: Oribatida: Eremulidae) from South Africa

Fig. 5. Eremulus flagellifer: (A) dorsal view, legs not shown; (B) ano-aggenital region; (C) medio-distal part of sensillus; (D) notogastral seta la. Scale bars A, B = 50 μm; C, D = 10 μm.

Fig. 3 in Oribatid mites of the genus Eremulus Berlese, 1908 (Acari: Oribatida: Eremulidae) from South Africa

Fig. 3. Eremulus spindleformis sp. n.: (A) leg I, right, antiaxial view; (B) tarsus, tibia and genu of leg II, right, antiaxial view; (C) tibia and genu of leg III, left, paraxial view; (D) leg IV, right, antiaxial view. Scale bar = 20 μm.

Fig. 14 in A new genus of lauxaniid fly from South Africa (Diptera: Acalyptratae: Lauxaniidae), associated with proteas (Proteaceae)

Fig. 14. Proteaphila stuckenbergorum sp. n., ♀ terminalia: (A) dorsal view; (B) lateral view; (C–E) abdominal tip, dorsal (C), ventral (D), and lateral (E) views. Scale bars = 1 mm.