Systematics of the Madagascar Anelosimus spiders: remarkable local richness and endemism, and dual colonization from the Americas
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Agnarsson, Ingi
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Jencik, Brian B.
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Veve, Giselle M.
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Hanitriniaina, Sahondra
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Agostini, Diego
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Goh, Seok Ping
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Pruitt, Jonathan
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Kuntner, Matjaz
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ZooKeys
2015
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.509.8897
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.509.8897
1313-2970-509-13
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Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Theridiidae
Anelosimus moramora Agnarsson, Kuntner & Jencik
sp. n.
Fig. 16
Type
material.
Holotype female from Montagne
d'Ambre
National Park (
12.516972°S
,
49.178778°E
), 1005 m alt, Antsiranana district, Madagascar, 4.iv.2008, montane forest, col. Agnarsson and Kuntner, in NMNH.
Etymology.
The species epithet is a Madagascan aphorism or motto meaning 'no
rush'
or 'take it
easy'
.
Diagnosis.
Anelosimus moramora
females can be diagnosed from all other species except
Anelosimus ata
by the relatively small and pointy shape of the septum and from
Anelosimus ata
by its smaller size.
Anelosimus moramora
can be diagnosed from other Madagascan
Anelosimus
on the basis of the following unique mtDNA nucleotide substitutions at the following standard DNA barcode alignment positions (note that only a short fragment of the divergent
Anelosimus moramora
barcode is available starting at position 824): C (843), C (888), T (897), A (901), C (906), A (914), C (924), C (939), C (967), A (979). It can also be diagnosed from all
Anelosimus
except
Anelosimus torfi
based on A (943).
Figure 16.
Anelosimus moramora
:
A-C
female ventral, lateral and abdomen ventral D epigynum ventral view E epigynum cleared, dorsal.
Description.
Female: Total length 3.31. Cephalothorax 1.4 long, 1.06 wide, 0.87 high, brown. Sternum 0.78 long, 0.67 wide, extending half way between coxae IV, brown. Abdomen 2.02 long, 1.6 wide, 2.26 high. Red-brown with 2 white streaks. Eyes subequal in size about 0.09 in diameter. Clypeus height about 2.5 times one AME diameter. Chelicerae with one large tooth, three denticles prolaterally. Leg I femur 1.67, patella 0.5, tibia 1.41, metatarsus 1.1, tarsus 0.65. Leg formula 1243. Legs light brown-yellow with dark brown at junctions between tibia and metatarsus, and metatarsus and tarus. 4 small trichobothria dorsally on tibiae, 3 on all metatarsi. 3-4 dorsal trichobothria on female palpal tibia.
Variation: only known from holotype.
Distribution.
Only known from type locality.
Natural history.
Unknown, predicted to be subsocial.