A taxonomic review of the mygalomorph spider genus Linothele Karsch, 1879 (Araneae, Dipluridae) Author Drolshagen, Bastian Kolberger Strasse 12 F, 76139 Karlsruhe (Germany) bdrolshagen @ gmail. com bdrolshagen@gmail.com Author Bäckstam, Christian M. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Zoology, Box 50007, 104 05 Stockholm (Sweden) christian. backstam @ nrm. se backstam@nrm.se text Zoosystema 2021 2021-04-20 43 10 163 196 journal article 7176 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a10 120db7ca-e885-4d5e-bc3d-83af0671f8d1 1638-9387 4720674 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2763DA07-4D8F-4CA2-BB63-E5BC26470296 Linothele yanachanka Dupérré & Tapia, 2015 Linothele yanachanka Dupérré & Tapia, 2015: 353 , figs 23-29. FIG. 16. — Linothele uniformis n. sp. female (MCZ-75998): A , maxillae, labium and sternum, ventral view; B , eye tubercle, dorsal view; C , spinnerets,ventral view; D , spermatheca, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm. TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype . Ecuador • ♀ ; Cotopaxi Province , Parroquia San Francisco de Las Pampas , Casa CésarTapia ; 0°25’26.94”S , 78°57’25.883”W ; 1426 m a.s.l. ; 8.XII.2014 ; E. Tapia and C. Tapia leg.; hand collected from web; QCAZ . Paratypes . Ecuador • 1 ♂ , 1 ♀ , same collecting data as for holotype; 25.XII.2014 ; E.Tapia , I. Tapia and C. Tapia leg.; QCAZ . TYPE LOCALITY. — San Francisco de Las Pampas, Ecuador . DISTRIBUTION. — Only known from the type locality. DIAGNOSIS. — “Females are diagnosed by their colour pattern […]; from L. gaujoni by their golden brown abdomen, black in the latter, and from L. quori by their black legs with brown tarsi […], light brown with dark bands in the latter […]. Furthermore females are distinguished by their internal genitalia with numerous vesicles medially on short to elongated stalks […]. Males are distinguished by their overall black coloration, from L. gaujoni by their black carapace without yellow setae […]; from L. quori by their black and curved embolus […], straight and light brown in the latter species […].” see Dupérré & Tapia (2015: 354) . DESCRIPTION (FOLLOWING Dupérré & Tapia 2015 ) Male CL = 11.0. CT = 13. MC = 35-40. Colouration alive: overall dark brown to black; opisthosoma “dorsally dark brown with black median band […] covered by short black setae and long black erected setae”, “laterally and ventrally uniformely black”, see Dupérré & Tapia (2015 : fig. 24); maculae absent. Leg formula 4123. Preening-combs absent. Leg tarsi pseudosegmented. Palpal organ: “bulb pyriform; embolus black, curved”, see Dupérré & Tapia (2015 : fig. 28). Megaspine and MP: see Dupérré & Tapia (2015 : fig. 29). Female CL = 10.0. CT = 10. MC = 35-40. Colouration alive: as for male, but opisthosoma “dorsally orange-brown with blackpurplish median band and zigzag pattern laterally”, “ventrally uniformly orange-brown”, see Dupérré & Tapia (2015 : fig. 23); maculae absent. Sternum, labium and maxillae: see Dupérré &Tapia (2015 : fig. 25). Leg formula: 4123. Scopula divided. Leg tarsi pseudo-segmented.Spermathecae: “joined at base, elongated and tapering apically, with numerous vesicles medially on short to elongated stalks”, see Dupérré & Tapia (2015 : figs 26, 27). NATURAL HISTORY According to Dupérré & Tapia (2015) the “ holotype female was collected in a 40 × 30 cm web approximately 1.5m from the ground in a secondary subtropical forest. The web was attached to a palm tree ( Phytelephas macrocarpa ), the base was made of dead palm tree leaves. Other specimens where collected in palm tree from 1m up to 6m high (fig. 49), and one was collected at ground level.”