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 quori Dupérré & Tapia, 2015 Linothele quori Dupérré & Tapia, 2015: 361 , figs 41-47. TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype . Ecuador • ♂ ; Santo Domingo de Las Tsáchilas , Parroquia San José de Alluriquín , La Florida ; 0°15’0.9144”S , 79°1’49.547”W ; 884 m a.s.l. ; 20.XI.2014 ; E. Tapia , I. Tapia , A. Tapia and N. Dupérré leg.; hand collected from female’s web; QCAZ . Paratype . Ecuador • 1 ♀ ; same collecting data as for holotype . TYPE LOCALITY. — La Florida, Ecuador . DISTRIBUTION. — Only known from the type locality. DIAGNOSIS. — “Males and females are diagnosed by their unique gold and purple colour […]. Males are further distinguished by the straight embolus with slightly bent tip […]; females by their wide and short spermathecae […], elongated and tapering apically in all other species.” see Dupérré & Tapia (2015: 361) . DESCRIPTION (FOLLOWING Dupérré & Tapia 2015 ) Male CL = 5.0. CT = 9. MC = ~22. Colouration alive: overall yellowish; opisthosoma “yellow-brown with purplish mesh pattern (purplish pattern appears dark brown in alcohol) […], ventrally with purplish pattern”; maculae present. Sternum, labium and maxillae: see Dupérré & Tapia (2015 : fig. 45). Leg formula 4123. Preening-combs absent. Leg tarsi pseudo-segmented. Palpal organ: “bulb pyriform; embolus long and thin, half the length of the tibia”, see Dupérré & Tapia (2015 : fig. 44). Megaspine and MP: see Dupérré & Tapia (2015 : fig. 46). Female CL = 6.0. CT = 9. MC = ~25. Colouration alive: as for male, see Dupérré & Tapia (2015 : figs 41, 47). Leg formula: 4123. Scopula divided. Leg tarsi weakly pseudo-segmented. Spermathecae: “joined at base, wide and short, with small vesicles medially, with or without stalks”, see Dupérré & Tapia (2015 : figs 42, 43). REMARKS Unfortunately, we were unable to obtain images of the relevant structures, but the illustrations for male characters in the first description show a megaspine and MP at prolateral tibia and metatarsus I. The description mentions those to be situated retrolaterally. As a prolateral megaspine and MP have not been observed in any other Linothele , it is likely the terms “prolateral” and “retrolateral” have been swapped in the illustration legends. NATURAL HISTORY According to Dupérré & Tapia (2015) , specimens of L. quori “[…] were collected in foothill forest. This species builds webs approximately 30 × 20 cm […], with a central funnel that is almost always 1 m from the ground, attached to epiphyte bases or tree trunks. The specimens collected live in sympatry with L. tsachilas and L. zaia , but in a very distinctive micohabitat. Two juveniles females were collected in a low evergreen forest at 1426 m , where they build webs of 30 × 20 cm from 1 m to 3 m from the ground, attached to epiphytes bases or tree trunks […]”.