<documentid="8B3D7CCEF6E978D81BB97C3BEA2A3FDF"ID-DOI="10.5852/ejt.2024.963.2687"ID-ISSN="2118-9773"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13963130"ID-ZooBank="BA331360-A678-4233-A7CC-7308EF8B6D7E"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.metadata_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="GgImagineBatch"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.treatments_approvedBy="guilherme"checkinTime="1729527971783"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Huber, Bernhard A., Meng, Guanliang, Král, Jiří, Ávila Herrera, Ivalú M. & Carvalho, Leonardo S."docDate="2024"docId="552AE709E87FFFB8F7F0FA55641B878E"docLanguage="en"docName="EJT.2024.963.1-169.pdf"docOrigin="European Journal of Taxonomy 963"docSource="https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2687/12427"docStyle="DocumentStyle:EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911.14:EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleId="EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911"docStyleName="EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleVersion="14"docTitle="Ibotyporanga ramosae Huber & Brescovit 2003"docType="treatment"docVersion="5"lastPageNumber="96"masterDocId="A9139F71E823FFE7F609FFBB6751811D"masterDocTitle="Diamonds in the rough: Ibotyporanga (Araneae, Pholcidae) spiders in semi-arid Neotropical environments"masterLastPageNumber="169"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="93"updateTime="1730292083863"updateUser="guilherme"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0"zenodo-license-figures="CC-BY-4.0"zenodo-license-treatments="UNSPECIFIED">
<mods:titleid="61707CE0ABE8F6981C6E92C832D45EB0">Diamonds in the rough: Ibotyporanga (Araneae, Pholcidae) spiders in semi-arid Neotropical environments</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="39441A81F7463CE8E1E9A05A2CD0507B">Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.</mods:affiliation>
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) also by shorter dorsal branch of procursus without bend. Females are externally possibly indistinguishable from putatively close relatives (species with a split procursus but without median sclerite in female internal genitalia:
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may be morphologically indistinguishable from those of
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are wrong. The exact coordinates are those given above. The specimens newly examined here are from a neighboring cave and its surrounding in the same outcrop, less than
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(amendments, see
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Measurements of male in CHNUFPI 3730: carapace width 0.72; chelicerae width: 0.30; distance PME– PME 60 µm; diameter PME 70 µm; distance PME–ALE 25 µm; distance AME–AME 15 µm; diameter AME 45 µm; sternum width/ length: 0.47/0.42. Clypeus modified as usual in genus. Sternum with very low humps near coxae 1, not different from those in females. Tibia
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, male from Brazil, Bahia, São Desiderio, near Gruta da Passagem, CHNUFPI 3730. Left palp, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views. Scale line: 0.3 mm.
<figureCitationid="45B84A9AE87DFFB9F535FEB264C0803E"box="[828,913,265,291]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="93.[189,232,1925,1951]"captionTargetBox="[189,1398,1222,1887]"captionTargetId="figure-339@93.[189,1398,1222,1887]"captionTargetPageId="93"captionText="Fig. 80. Ibotyporanga ramosae Huber & Brescovit, 2003, male from Brazil, Bahia, São Desiderio, near Gruta da Passagem, CHNUFPI 3730. Left palp, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views. Scale line: 0.3 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13963310"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13963310/files/figure.png"pageId="94"pageNumber="95">Fig. 80</figureCitation>
; palpal femur retrolateral process distinct, not directed towards distal; femur-patella joints not shifted to one side; patella dorsally barely longer than medially wide; tibia-tarsus joints slightly shifted toward retrolateral side; procursus (
<figureCitationid="45B84A9AE87DFFB9F2EBFEF462218074"box="[1250,1392,335,361]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="94.[189,232,1891,1917]"captionTargetBox="[209,1377,564,1847]"captionTargetId="figure-153@94.[189,1398,564,1852]"captionTargetPageId="94"captionText="Fig. 81. Ibotyporanga ramosae Huber & Brescovit, 2003, male from Brazil, Bahia, São Desiderio, near Gruta da Passagem, CHNUFPI 3730. A–C. Left tarsus and procursus, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views. D–F. Left genital bulb, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views. Abbreviation: db =dorsal branch of procursus. Scale lines: 0.2 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13963314"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13963314/files/figure.png"pageId="94"pageNumber="95">Fig. 81A–C</figureCitation>
) main branch subdistally a wide band, one side sclerotized, other side membranous; dorsal branch of procursus much shorter than main branch, slender and weakly curved; genital bulb (
<figureCitationid="45B84A9AE87DFFB9F2AFFE2D626080AD"box="[1190,1329,406,432]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="94.[189,232,1891,1917]"captionTargetBox="[209,1377,564,1847]"captionTargetId="figure-153@94.[189,1398,564,1852]"captionTargetPageId="94"captionText="Fig. 81. Ibotyporanga ramosae Huber & Brescovit, 2003, male from Brazil, Bahia, São Desiderio, near Gruta da Passagem, CHNUFPI 3730. A–C. Left tarsus and procursus, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views. D–F. Left genital bulb, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views. Abbreviation: db =dorsal branch of procursus. Scale lines: 0.2 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13963314"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13963314/files/figure.png"pageId="94"pageNumber="95">Fig. 81D–F</figureCitation>
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, male from Brazil, Bahia, São Desiderio, near Gruta da Passagem, CHNUFPI 3730.
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. Male chelicerae, frontal and lateral views, male holotype from Brazil, Bahia, São Desiderio, Gruta das Pedras Brilhantes (adapted from
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. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view (asterisk: expandable membranous sac not drawn, cf. Fig. 83D), female from Bahia, São Desiderio, near Gruta da Passagem, CHNUFPI 3683. Scale lines: 0.2 mm.
In general, similar to male but slightly darker, carapace also laterally sometimes with darker bands; clypeus unmodified; tibia 1 with few short vertical hairs; tibia 1 length in
) with pair of narrow pore plates laterally on curved membranous arc and very transparent and variably large anterior expandable membranous sac, possibly with lateral compartments or pouches.
<figureCitationid="45B84A9AE87CFFB8F5F4FA78630784C0"box="[1021,1110,1475,1501]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="86.[189,232,1925,1951]"captionTargetBox="[189,1398,935,1875]"captionTargetId="figure-185@86.[189,1398,935,1875]"captionTargetPageId="86"captionText="Fig. 74. Known geographic distribution of Brazilian species with long procursus and with dorsal branch on procursus, but without median sclerite in female internal genitalia. Abbreviations: BA=Bahia; CE =Ceará; GO =Goiás; MG = Minas Gerais; PE =Pernambuco; PI =Piauí."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13963296"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13963296/files/figure.png"pageId="95"pageNumber="96">Fig. 74</figureCitation>
The spiders were found under rocks of a secondary arboreous caatinga, inside and outside arenitic caves. The region is altered by cattle and grazing, decreasing habitat quality.
