A revision of the Neotropical spider genus Nops MacLeay (Araneae: Caponiidae) with the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the Nopinae genera
Author
Sánchez-Ruiz, Alexander
Author
Brescovit, Antonio D.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-06-01
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4427.1.1
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Nops finisfurvus
Sánchez
–Ruiz,
Brescovit & Alayón, 2015
Figures 15A‒G
; 16 A‒F
Nops finisfurvus
: Sánchez
–Ruiz,
Brescovit & Alayón, 2015
: 52, figs 7–12, 44–56, 79, 83. Male
holotype
from Fallen Jerusalem Island (
18°24′58.0″N
,
64°27′8.0″W
),
British Virgin Islands
,
24.v.1966
, Project Island Staff, University of
Puerto Rico
(AMNH); female
paratype
from Peter Island (
18°21′6″N
,
64°34′9″W
),
British Virgin Islands
,
6.vii.1965
, Project Island Staff, University of
Puerto Rico
(AMNH); all
types
examined.
FIGURE 15
.
Nops finisfurvus
Sánchez
–Ruiz, Brescovit & Alayón;
A–D
male (holotype);
E–G
female (paratype).
A
habitus, dorsal view.
B
habitus, ventral view.
C
left palp, prolateral view.
D
left palp, retrolateral view.
E
habitus, dorsal view.
F
external genital area, ventral view.
G
internal genitalia, dorsal view. Abbreviations: ap—anterior plate, ess—external sclerotization around spiracles, lep—lateral extensions of posterior plate, pp—posterior plate, re—posterior receptaculum, ue—uterus externus. Scale bars: 2 mm (
A
,
B
,
E
), 0.5 mm (
C–D
,
E–F
).
Additional material examined
.
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
:
Little Jost Van Dyke
(
18°27′13″N
,
64°43′19″W
),
27.vii.1965
,
Project Island
Staff, University of Puerto Rico,
1♀
(
AMNH
)
.
East Seal Dog
(
18°30′24″N
,
64°25′56″W
),
7.vi.1966
,
Project Island
Staff, University of
Puerto Rico
,
1♀
immature (
AMNH
)
.
Peter Island
(
18°21′6″N
,
64°34′9″W
),
6.vii.1965
,
Project Island
Staff, University of
Puerto Rico
,
1♀
immature (
AMNH
)
.
Virgin Gorda
Mountains
(
18°28′52.9″N
,
64°24′21.7″W
)
,
Virgin Gorda Island
,
26.vi.1966
,
Project Island
Staff, University of
Puerto Rico
,
1♂
(
AMNH
)
.
PUERTO RICO
:
Culebra
Island, near
Dewey
(
18°18′9″N
,
65°18′12″W
),
10.viii.1965
,
Project Island
Staff, University of Puerto Rico,
1♀
immature (
AMNH
)
.
Diagnosis
. Both sexes can easily be separated from members of all the other species by having the posterior distal area of abdomen distinctly darker than anterior and median parts. Males have embolus distinctly shorter than tibia (
Fig. 15C‒D
), tip with two extensions, one greater than the other (
Fig. 16B‒C
). Females with a very wide invagination on receptaculum, small lobes and uterus externus with narrow base (
Fig. 16D‒F
).
Description
. Male and female described by Sánchez‒Ruiz
et al.
(2015).
Distribution
.
British Virgin Islands
and
Culebra
Island (
Fig. 8E
).