Megadiverse Ecuador: a review of Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) of Ecuador, with the description of twenty-one new kleptoparasitic spider species
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
Author
Tapia, Elicio
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-04-07
4761
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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4761.1.1
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Mysmenopsis hunachi
new species
Figs 91–96
, map 1 (yellow star).
Material examined.
Male
holotype
from
Ecuador
,
Cotopaxi Province
,
Via Sigchos-Rio Hunachi
(
-0.657704
- 78.876737
)
2347m
,
15 Mar. 2019
, ex:
Linothele
sp. verdosa
,
E. Tapia
(
QCAZ
).
Additional material examined.
Ecuador
:
Cotopaxi Province
,
Via Sigchos -Rio Hunachi
(
-0.657704
-78.876737
)
2347m
,
15 Mar. 2019
,
3juv.
ex:
Linothele
sp. verdosa,
E. Tapia
(
QCAZ
,
ZMH-A0001913
)
.
Etymology.
The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality, the Rio Hunachi.
Diagnosis.
Males are distinguished from all species by the following combination of characters; retrolateral ledge of palpal tibia long with 13 cusps and embolus hook-shaped (
Figs 94, 96
).
Description.
Male (
holotype
)
: Total length: 2.08; carapace length: 1.00; carapace width: 0.91; abdomen length: 1.08. Carapace dark brown, pear-shaped; suffused black along pars cephalica and radiating lines (
Fig. 91
). Sternum black; covered with long setae. Clypeus dark brown; high (5x AME). Chelicerae brown suffused with black; promargin with three teeth; retromargin not observed. Eyes: eight, rounded, all approximately equal size; ocular region on protuberance; AME separated by their diameter, AME-LE touching; ALE-PLE contiguous, LE-PME separated by their diameter; PME separated by their diameter. Abdomen: rounded, light grey with mixed patterned of dark grey and whites patches (
Figs 91, 92
). Legs: femur I dark brown; femora II-IV light yellow with dark bands basally, medially and apically; tibia I brown with apical dark band; tibiae II-IV yellow with dark patches apically; metatarsi I-IV light orange-brown with dark band apically, tarsi light yellow; femur and tibia I enlarged, metatarsus I slightly curved. Legs spination: patellae I-IV with one macroseta; tibia I with two prolateral clasping spurs and one macroseta; metatarsus I row of six macrosetae prolatero-ventrally and two clasping spurs apically (
Fig. 93
); tibiae I-IV with one macroseta dorso-proximally; tibia I with three macrosetae retrolaterally; tibia II with three macrosetae ventrally. Total length leg I: 3.39 (1.03/0.34/0.93/0.57/0.52). Genitalia: palpal tibia globular; retrolateral ledge wide bearing 13 short cusps, ventral ledge absent; two retrolateral trichobothria (
Fig. 94
). Cymbium apically truncated, deeply excavated; paracymbium triangular not excavated prolatero-dorsally (
Fig. 95
). Tegulum oval (
Fig. 94
). Embolus short, hook-shaped, with small pointed basal apophysis (
Figs 94, 96
).
FIGURES 91–93.
Mysmenopsis hunachi
n. sp.
,
91, Male habitus, dorsal view. 92, Male abdomen, posterior view. 93, Leg I, prolatero-dorsal view. Scale bar: 91, 92: 0.5mm; 93: 0.1mm.
Female:
Unknown.
Distribution.
Only known from the
type
locality in
Cotopaxi Province
.
Natural history.
The male
holotype
and three juveniles were collected in an evergreen mountain shrubland of the western Andes (AsMn01) (
Josse & Aguirre, 2013
) at
2347m
in a
Linothele
sp. web.