A new species of Drymusa Simon, 1891 (Araneae, Drymusidae) from Brazil
Author
Brescovit, Antonio D.
Author
Bonaldo, Alexandre B.
Author
Rheims, Crsitina A.
text
Zootaxa
2004
697
1
5
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.158080
4879ffd7-1d41-49a3-8bbe-58e829102f67
11755326
158080
CD90219F-5B58-4582-A8C7-BFF98C891E6A
Drymusa canhemabae
n. sp.
(
Figs. 1–5
)
Types
. Male
holotype
from Igarapé (Creek) Mutum (
02° 36’ 10.6” S
;
56° 12’ 25.8” W
), Jurutí River plateau, Jurutí, Pará,
Brazil
, Sept. 14.2002, A. B. Bonaldo col. deposited in MPEG 0 408. Female
paratype
from CapirangaMutum Road (
02° 33’ 07.2” S
;
56° 13’ 06.2” W
), Jurutí River plateau, Jurutí, Pará,
Brazil
,
Sept. 11
–16.2002., deposited in MPEG 0 410.
FIGURES 1–5.
Drymusa canhemabae
n. sp.
1–3. Male (1. body, dorsal view; 2. left palp, prolateral view; 3. left palp, retrolateral view); 4–5. Female genitalia (4. epigynum, ventral view; 5. vulva, dorsal view). Scale bars: 0.5 mm.
Etymology. The specific name is a term taken from the Brazilian “Tupiguarani” Indian language, which means “one who can disappear”.
Diagnosis. The males of
Drymusa canhemabae
n. sp.
resemble those of
D. serrana
Goloboff & Ramírez
by the small and rounded tegulum and laminar embolus of the male palp (
Goloboff & Ramírez 1991: 694, figs. 6–7
). They differ by the shorter and distally twisted embolus (
Figs. 2–3
). The females are distinguished by the presence of a sclerotized plate below the epigastric furrow and by the triangular epigynal pouch (
Fig. 4
).
Description. Male (
holotype
). Carapace orange with brown lateral margins and median Vshaped brown pattern on posterior half. Chelicerae orange. Labium brownish yellow. Endites slightly lighter than labium. Sternum brownish. Legs and pedipalps pale yellow with very faint brown pigmentation, irregularly distributed along entire leg. Abdomen gray, with six transversal irregular bands. The anterior two slightly Wshaped and thicker (
Fig. 1
). Total length 2.16. Carapace flattened, 1.00 long, 0.82 wide. Eye diameters: PME 0.08, ALE 0.09, PLE 0.09. Lateral eyes on a tubercle. Chelicerae with two small retromarginal teeth, promarginal carina and subapical hyaline keel. Labium 0.20 long, 0.16 wide. Sternum 0.56 long, 0.56 wide. Leg measurements: I: femur 2.00/ patella 0.30/ tibia 2.14/ metatarsus 2.14/ tarsus 0.62/ total 7.20; II: 1.90/ 0.30/ 1.96/ 2.00/ 0.62/ 6.78; III: 1.54/ 0.28/ 1.40/ 1.54/ 0.54/ 5.30; IV: 1.90/ 0.32/ 1.94/ 2.06/ 0.66/ 6.88. Claws pectinate. Male palp with small, truncated cymbium (
Figs. 2–3
). Bulb 0.34 long. Abdomen 1.16 long, 0.60 wide, covered with slender hairs.
Female (
paratype
). Coloration pattern as in male, but slightly darker. Total length 2.66. Carapace flattened, 1.14 long, 0.94 wide. Eye diameters: PME 0.07, ALE 0.08, PLE 0.09. Lateral eyes on a tubercle. Chelicerae as in male. Labium 0.18 long, 0.28 wide. Sternum 0.60 long, 0.60 wide. Leg measurements: I: femur 2.08/ patella 0.32/ tibia 2.28/ metatarsus 2.24/ tarsus 0.72/ total 7.64; II: 1.96/ 0.32/ 2.02/ 2.08/ 0.68/ 7.06; III: 1.58/ 0.30/ 1.46/ 1.60/ 0.60/ 5.54; IV: 1.94/ 0.32/ 1.98/ 2.00/ 0.66/ 6.90. Sclerotized plate below the epigastric furrow folded laterally inwards forming large pearshaped rim (
Figs. 4–5
). Vulva with small, oval spermathecae and long, coiled ducts (
Fig. 5
). Abdomen 1.52 long, 0.90 wide, as in male.
Natural History. Both specimens were collected in dryland forest (“Terra Firme”). The dryland Forest at Jurutí plateau is classified as “submontane ombrophilous plateau forest”. The
holotype
was collected with a beating tray, in low vegetation, in a one hectare plot of primary forest with low disturbance degree. The
paratype
was collected in another plot, 20 kilometres from the first, using pitfall traps. This plot was composed of disturbed secondary forest, in which dry leaves of embaúba trees (
Cecropia
sp.,
Moraceae
) were the main litter component. This might indicate that the species is capable of occupying at least two microhabitats, the litter layer and the low foliage.
Distribution. Only known from the
type
locality.
Material examined. Only the
types
.