<documentid="D5C07BBDAF44D239D069E2B112719212"ID-DOI="10.5852/ejt.2020.718.1101"ID-ISSN="2118-9773"ID-Zenodo-Dep="4069574"ID-ZooBank="F9E9A91E-488C-4DB1-9361-E788E9AC5BC1"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="valdenar"IM.metadata_approvedBy="valdenar"IM.tables_approvedBy="valdenar"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="valdenar"IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="valdenar"IM.treatments_approvedBy="valdenar"checkinTime="1602021550335"checkinUser="valdenar"docAuthor="Huber, Bernhard A. & Villarreal, Osvaldo"docDate="2020"docId="03E887ADFF777AAAFE49F8C9F818FB4C"docLanguage="en"docName="ejt-718_huber_villareal.pdf.imf"docOrigin="European Journal of Taxonomy 718"docStyle="DocumentStyle:EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911.14:EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleId="EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911"docStyleName="EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleVersion="14"docTitle="Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis Gonzalez-Sponga 1998"docType="treatment"docVersion="10"lastPageNumber="172"masterDocId="FFD1FFD5FFD07A01FF8BFF8FFA5BFFBA"masterDocTitle="On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae)"masterLastPageNumber="317"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="168"updateTime="1733768550113"updateUser="valdenar"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0"zenodo-license-figures="CC-BY-4.0"zenodo-license-treatments="UNSPECIFIED">
<mods:affiliationid="0DC4B295D5513A3EC37365022FB3166D">Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela. & Museu Nacional / UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</mods:affiliation>
<bibRefCitationid="EFD04B4AFF777AA6FCD3F8C9FE29F8DA"author="Gonzalez-Sponga M. A."box="[856,1138,1862,1888]"pageId="167"pageNumber="168"pagination="17 - 31"refId="ref127125"refString="Gonzalez-Sponga M. A. 1998. Aracnidos de Venezuela. Cuatro nuevos generos y cuatro nuevas especies de la familia Pholcidae Koch, 1850 (Araneae). Memorias de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 57: 17 - 31."type="journal article"year="1998">González-Sponga, 1998</bibRefCitation>
<figureCitationid="137A2A3EFF777AA6FD2EF8E6F913F83E"box="[677,840,1897,1924]"captionStart-0="Figs 599–608"captionStart-1="Figs 609–613"captionStartId-0="169.[189,241,1857,1883]"captionStartId-1="170.[189,241,1859,1885]"captionTargetBox-0="[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetBox-1="[200,1391,887,1813]"captionTargetId-0="figure-74@169.[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetId-1="figure-285@170.[189,1398,887,1819]"captionTargetPageId-0="169"captionTargetPageId-1="170"captionText-0="Figs 599–608. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998. 599–600. Right pedipalp of male holotype (MIZA 105737; MAGS 986), retrolateral and prolateral views. 601–604. Live male and female from Mérida, Caño Azul. 605–608. Epigynum, lateral and ventral views, and cleared female genitalia, ventral and dorsal views, female from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). Abbreviations: lp= lateral process; mp =median process."captionText-1="Figs 609–613. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998; from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). 609–610. Left male palpal tarsus and procursus, prolateral and retrolateral views. 611. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. 612–613. Process of left genital bulb, prolateral and retrolateral views. 1 =proximal dorsal process; 2=ventral part of distal sclerite; 3=subdistal dorsal process. Scale lines: 0.5 mm."figureDoi-0="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069818"figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069820"httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/4069818/files/figure.png"httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/4069820/files/figure.png"pageId="167"pageNumber="168">Figs 599–613</figureCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="EFD04B4AFF777AA6FDDEF825F9C5F87F"author="Gonzalez-Sponga M. A."box="[597,926,1962,1989]"pageId="167"pageNumber="168"pagination="17 - 31"refId="ref127125"refString="Gonzalez-Sponga M. A. 1998. Aracnidos de Venezuela. Cuatro nuevos generos y cuatro nuevas especies de la familia Pholcidae Koch, 1850 (Araneae). Memorias de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 57: 17 - 31."type="journal article"year="1998">González-Sponga, 1998: 27</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="EFD04B4AFF787AA9FC7EFE40FEDDFE53"author="Huber B. A."box="[1013,1158,463,489]"pageId="168"pageNumber="169"pagination="1 - 348"refId="ref127973"refString="Huber B. A. 2000. New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): a revision at generic level. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 254: 1 - 348. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 0003 - 0090 (2000) 254 % 3 C 0001: NWPSAP % 3 E 2.0. CO; 2"type="journal article"year="2000">Huber, 2000</bibRefCitation>
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, and probably represent that species. In his later work,
<bibRefCitationid="EFD04B4AFF787AA9FF36FDF0FB25FD23"author="Machado E. O."box="[189,382,639,665]"pageId="168"pageNumber="169"refId="ref130210"refString="Machado E. O. 2011. Estratificacao de habitat, diversidade e evolucao do genero Mesabolivar Gonzalez- Sponga, 1998 (Araneae: Pholcidae). PhD thesis, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil."type="book"year="2011">Machado (2011)</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="EFD04B4AFF787AA9FD92FCA1F976FCF3"author="Gonzalez-Sponga M. A."box="[537,813,814,841]"pageId="168"pageNumber="169"pagination="17 - 31"refId="ref127125"refString="Gonzalez-Sponga M. A. 1998. Aracnidos de Venezuela. Cuatro nuevos generos y cuatro nuevas especies de la familia Pholcidae Koch, 1850 (Araneae). Memorias de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 57: 17 - 31."type="journal article"year="1998">González-Sponga 1998</bibRefCitation>
Distinguished from most known congeners by general shape of procursus (
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; distinctively widened and strongly curved distal element); from two most similar known congeners (
<figureCitationid="137A2A3EFF787AA9FC32FBBDFE3AFBF6"box="[953,1121,1074,1100]"captionStart="Figs 609–613"captionStartId="170.[189,241,1859,1885]"captionTargetBox="[200,1391,887,1813]"captionTargetId="figure-285@170.[189,1398,887,1819]"captionTargetPageId="170"captionText="Figs 609–613. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998; from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). 609–610. Left male palpal tarsus and procursus, prolateral and retrolateral views. 611. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. 612–613. Process of left genital bulb, prolateral and retrolateral views. 1 =proximal dorsal process; 2=ventral part of distal sclerite; 3=subdistal dorsal process. Scale lines: 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069820"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069820/files/figure.png"pageId="168"pageNumber="169">Figs 609–610</figureCitation>
; larger proximal dorsal process; ventral part of distal sclerite larger than in
<figureCitationid="137A2A3EFF787AA9FE67FB10F8CFFB03"box="[492,660,1183,1209]"captionStart="Figs 609–613"captionStartId="170.[189,241,1859,1885]"captionTargetBox="[200,1391,887,1813]"captionTargetId="figure-285@170.[189,1398,887,1819]"captionTargetPageId="170"captionText="Figs 609–613. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998; from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). 609–610. Left male palpal tarsus and procursus, prolateral and retrolateral views. 611. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. 612–613. Process of left genital bulb, prolateral and retrolateral views. 1 =proximal dorsal process; 2=ventral part of distal sclerite; 3=subdistal dorsal process. Scale lines: 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069820"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069820/files/figure.png"pageId="168"pageNumber="169">Figs 612–613</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="137A2A3EFF787AA9FF4EFB67FB2BFAB9"box="[197,368,1256,1283]"captionStart="Figs 599–608"captionStartId="169.[189,241,1857,1883]"captionTargetBox="[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetId="figure-74@169.[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetPageId="169"captionText="Figs 599–608. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998. 599–600. Right pedipalp of male holotype (MIZA 105737; MAGS 986), retrolateral and prolateral views. 601–604. Live male and female from Mérida, Caño Azul. 605–608. Epigynum, lateral and ventral views, and cleared female genitalia, ventral and dorsal views, female from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). Abbreviations: lp= lateral process; mp =median process."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069818"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069818/files/figure.png"pageId="168"pageNumber="169">Figs 605–606</figureCitation>
; lateral processes directed towards lateral rather than ventral, in lateral view shorter than posterior median process); from both species apparently also by larger size and longer legs (male carapace width>1.5; male tibia 1 length>11.0; female tibia 1 length>6.0), and by strongly widened male femur 3 (barely wider than other femora in
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(in ethanol). Carapace ochre-yellow to orange, with darker median mark, ocular area posteriorly also darkened; clypeus only at rim dark brown; sternum orange; legs ochre to light brown, with indistinct darker rings on femora (subdistally) and tibiae (proximally; subdistal rings barely visible), tips of femora and tibiae lighter; abdomen greenish-gray, densely covered with many black and few white internal marks dorsally and laterally, without ventral mark.
<figureCitationid="137A2A3EFF7A7AABFE3AFE5DF80DFE56"box="[433,598,466,492]"captionStart="Figs 599–608"captionStartId="169.[189,241,1857,1883]"captionTargetBox="[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetId="figure-74@169.[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetPageId="169"captionText="Figs 599–608. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998. 599–600. Right pedipalp of male holotype (MIZA 105737; MAGS 986), retrolateral and prolateral views. 601–604. Live male and female from Mérida, Caño Azul. 605–608. Epigynum, lateral and ventral views, and cleared female genitalia, ventral and dorsal views, female from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). Abbreviations: lp= lateral process; mp =median process."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069818"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069818/files/figure.png"pageId="170"pageNumber="171">Figs 601–602</figureCitation>
; ocular area distinctly raised (higher than usual in genus); carapace with distinct median furrow; clypeus slightly swollen, with sclerotized margin; sternum unmodified. Abdomen slightly longer than high, pointed at spinnerets.
<figureCitationid="137A2A3EFF7A7AABFED6FD52F858FD4D"box="[349,515,732,759]"captionStart="Figs 599–608"captionStartId="169.[189,241,1857,1883]"captionTargetBox="[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetId="figure-74@169.[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetPageId="169"captionText="Figs 599–608. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998. 599–600. Right pedipalp of male holotype (MIZA 105737; MAGS 986), retrolateral and prolateral views. 601–604. Live male and female from Mérida, Caño Azul. 605–608. Epigynum, lateral and ventral views, and cleared female genitalia, ventral and dorsal views, female from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). Abbreviations: lp= lateral process; mp =median process."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069818"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069818/files/figure.png"pageId="170"pageNumber="171">Figs 599–600</figureCitation>
); coxa with conical retrolateral apophysis; trochanter with retrolateral apophysis; femur very large, proximally with retrolateral apophysis and prolateral hump set with short hairs; tarsus with one small and one large dorsal processes, with some hairs bent towards dorsal; procursus (
<figureCitationid="137A2A3EFF7B7AAAFC47FEA4FE29FEFC"box="[972,1138,299,326]"captionStart="Figs 609–613"captionStartId="170.[189,241,1859,1885]"captionTargetBox="[200,1391,887,1813]"captionTargetId="figure-285@170.[189,1398,887,1819]"captionTargetPageId="170"captionText="Figs 609–613. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998; from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). 609–610. Left male palpal tarsus and procursus, prolateral and retrolateral views. 611. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. 612–613. Process of left genital bulb, prolateral and retrolateral views. 1 =proximal dorsal process; 2=ventral part of distal sclerite; 3=subdistal dorsal process. Scale lines: 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069820"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069820/files/figure.png"pageId="171"pageNumber="172">Figs 609–610</figureCitation>
) distally widened and strongly curved towards dorsal, with large ventro-distal sclerite separated from proximal part by whitish area; bulbal process with distinctive distal structures (
<figureCitationid="137A2A3EFF7B7AAAFCB8FEFFF981FE31"box="[819,986,368,395]"captionStart="Figs 609–613"captionStartId="170.[189,241,1859,1885]"captionTargetBox="[200,1391,887,1813]"captionTargetId="figure-285@170.[189,1398,887,1819]"captionTargetPageId="170"captionText="Figs 609–613. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998; from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). 609–610. Left male palpal tarsus and procursus, prolateral and retrolateral views. 611. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. 612–613. Process of left genital bulb, prolateral and retrolateral views. 1 =proximal dorsal process; 2=ventral part of distal sclerite; 3=subdistal dorsal process. Scale lines: 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069820"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069820/files/figure.png"pageId="171"pageNumber="172">Figs 612–613</figureCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="EFD04B4AFF7A7AABFC98F8CCFE6EF8E7"author="Gonzalez-Sponga M. A."box="[787,1077,1859,1885]"pageId="170"pageNumber="171"pagination="17 - 31"refId="ref127125"refString="Gonzalez-Sponga M. A. 1998. Aracnidos de Venezuela. Cuatro nuevos generos y cuatro nuevas especies de la familia Pholcidae Koch, 1850 (Araneae). Memorias de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 57: 17 - 31."type="journal article"year="1998">González-Sponga, 1998</bibRefCitation>
. Process of left genital bulb, prolateral and retrolateral views. 1 =proximal dorsal process; 2=ventral part of distal sclerite; 3=subdistal dorsal process. Scale lines: 0.5 mm.
. Without spines and curved hairs, few vertical hairs; retrolateral trichobothrium on tibia 1 at 2%; prolateral trichobothrium present on tibia 1; tarsus 1 with ~30 pseudosegments, mostly distinct.
<figureCitationid="137A2A3EFF7B7AAAFE70FD29F8C4FD7A"box="[507,671,677,704]"captionStart="Figs 599–608"captionStartId="169.[189,241,1857,1883]"captionTargetBox="[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetId="figure-74@169.[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetPageId="169"captionText="Figs 599–608. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998. 599–600. Right pedipalp of male holotype (MIZA 105737; MAGS 986), retrolateral and prolateral views. 601–604. Live male and female from Mérida, Caño Azul. 605–608. Epigynum, lateral and ventral views, and cleared female genitalia, ventral and dorsal views, female from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). Abbreviations: lp= lateral process; mp =median process."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069818"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069818/files/figure.png"pageId="171"pageNumber="172">Figs 603–604</figureCitation>
) but carapace ochre-brown rather than yellow to orange, with larger brown median mark; ocular area slightly lower than in males; dark rings and whitish tips of femora and tibiae slightly more distinct; clypeus
<figureCitationid="137A2A3EFF7B7AAAFD3BFC82F90CFC92"box="[688,855,781,808]"captionStart="Figs 599–608"captionStartId="169.[189,241,1857,1883]"captionTargetBox="[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetId="figure-74@169.[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetPageId="169"captionText="Figs 599–608. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998. 599–600. Right pedipalp of male holotype (MIZA 105737; MAGS 986), retrolateral and prolateral views. 601–604. Live male and female from Mérida, Caño Azul. 605–608. Epigynum, lateral and ventral views, and cleared female genitalia, ventral and dorsal views, female from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). Abbreviations: lp= lateral process; mp =median process."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069818"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069818/files/figure.png"pageId="171"pageNumber="172">Figs 605–606</figureCitation>
) anterior plate with large median depression ending posteriorly in large pocket; pair of conical lateral processes directed towards lateral and posterior; posterior plate large, simple. Internal genitalia (
<figureCitationid="137A2A3EFF7B7AAAFD60FCDDF9CAFCD6"box="[747,913,850,876]"captionStart="Figs 599–608"captionStartId="169.[189,241,1857,1883]"captionTargetBox="[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetId="figure-74@169.[208,1372,265,1833]"captionTargetPageId="169"captionText="Figs 599–608. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998. 599–600. Right pedipalp of male holotype (MIZA 105737; MAGS 986), retrolateral and prolateral views. 601–604. Live male and female from Mérida, Caño Azul. 605–608. Epigynum, lateral and ventral views, and cleared female genitalia, ventral and dorsal views, female from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). Abbreviations: lp= lateral process; mp =median process."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069818"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069818/files/figure.png"pageId="171"pageNumber="172">Figs 607–608</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitationid="137A2A3EFF7B7AAAFC16FCDDF992FCD7"box="[925,969,850,877]"captionStart="Figs 609–613"captionStartId="170.[189,241,1859,1885]"captionTargetBox="[200,1391,887,1813]"captionTargetId="figure-285@170.[189,1398,887,1819]"captionTargetPageId="170"captionText="Figs 609–613. Mesabolivar pseudoblechroscelis González-Sponga, 1998; from Mérida, Caño Azul (ZFMK Ar 21994). 609–610. Left male palpal tarsus and procursus, prolateral and retrolateral views. 611. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. 612–613. Process of left genital bulb, prolateral and retrolateral views. 1 =proximal dorsal process; 2=ventral part of distal sclerite; 3=subdistal dorsal process. Scale lines: 0.5 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069820"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069820/files/figure.png"pageId="171"pageNumber="172">611</figureCitation>
) with small elongated pore-plates in transversal position, distinctive median dark anterior structure.
At Caño Azul, the spiders were collected in a forest remnant along a small stream. This species shared the microhabitat (low vegetation and sheltered spaces near the ground) with the similar but larger (and more abundant)
<bibRefCitationid="EFD04B4AFF7B7AAAFE7CFB36F97AFB6E"author="Gonzalez-Sponga M. A."box="[503,801,1209,1236]"pageId="171"pageNumber="172"pagination="17 - 31"refId="ref127125"refString="Gonzalez-Sponga M. A. 1998. Aracnidos de Venezuela. Cuatro nuevos generos y cuatro nuevas especies de la familia Pholcidae Koch, 1850 (Araneae). Memorias de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 57: 17 - 31."type="journal article"year="1998">González-Sponga (1998)</bibRefCitation>
