Review of the American genus Bolostromus Ausserer, 1875 with the description of fourteen new species (Araneae, Cyrtaucheniidae)
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
0000-0003-2195-878X
n.duperre@leibniz-lib.de
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-07-17
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5317.1.1
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Bolostromus urku
new species
Figs 50–52
,
map 2
Type material.
Holotype
male from
Ecuador
,
Pichincha Province
,
La Union del Toachi
,
Otongachi Natural Reserve
(
-00.330510
-78.934420
)
1087m
,
25 Feb. 2020
,
pitfall
,
N. Dupérré
,
I.G. Tapia
,
E.E. Tapia
(
QCAZ
)
.
Paratypes
:
Ecuador
:
Pichincha Province
: 2J,
La Union del Toachi
,
Otongachi Natural Reserve
(
-00.330510
-78.934420
)
1087m
,
18 Feb. 2020
,
N. Dupérré
,
I.G. Tapia
,
E.E. Tapia
(
ZMH-A0015734
, A0015735)
.
Etymology.
The specific name is a non-Latin noun (invariable), taken from the Quechua language meaning small mountain, refering to the habitat.
Diagnosis.
Males most resemble
B. pristirana
n. sp.
but are distinguished by are straight fovea (
Fig. 51A
), procurved in the latter (
Fig. 48A
), tibia I without megaspine (
Fig. 51D
) present in
B. pristirana
n. sp.
(
Fig. 48D
).
FIGURE 52.
Bolostromus urku
n. sp.
Male holotype.
A.
Palp, prolateral view.
B.
Palp, retrolateral view.
C.
Bulb, prolateral view.
D.
Bulb, ventral view.
E.
Bulb, retrolateral view. Scale bars: 0.1mm.
Description.
Male
(
holotype
):
Total length: 2.90; carapace length: 1.56; carapace width: 1.36; carapace height: 0.78; abdomen length: 1.34. CEPHALOTHORAX: Carapace elongated hexagonal; margin sinuous; pars cephalica dark brown, reticulate; pars thoracica, lighter brown, reticulate; cephalic groove shallow, with pit medially; fovea broad, straight (
Fig. 51A
); caput not strongly elevate (
Fig. 51C
). Clypeus: 0.09. Sternum 1.04/0.86, orange-brown, strongly reticulate; sigillae oval (
Fig. 51B
). Labium orange-brown; without cuspule. Endites quadrangle; orange-brown with seven cuspules; serrula not observed. Chelicerae dark reddish-brown; promargin five teeth and 14 denticles; rastrellum with 6–7 spines. EYES: AME: 0.08; ALE: 0.12; PLE: 0.08; PME: 0.04; interdistances: AME: 0.03; ALE-ALE: touching; PME: 0.14; PME-PLE: 0.02; LE: 0.02; ocular quadrangle: 0.41/0.42/0.19. ABDOMEN: Oval; dorsally beige with dark pattern consisting of two broken chevrons posterior half; ventrally uniformly beige (
Fig. 50A, B
). Spinnerets: median spinnerets: 0.14; lateral spinnerets: 0.24/0.17/0.25. LEGS: Uniformly light brown. Coxae I–II without inner short stiff setae. Metatarsi I broader apically, with thin apical half scopulae; tarsi I–II with thin full scopulae (
Fig. 51D
); Metatarsi II with thin apical half scopulae; leg III, IV without scopulae. Tarsal claw teeth (3/5) (3/7) (2/3) (3/4). LEGS MEASUREMENTS: I 4.98 (1.42/0.67/1.22/0.91/0.67); II 4.04 (1.2 1/0.51/0.94/0.76/0.62); III 3.14 (0.97/0.41/0.59/0.63/0.54); IV 4.58 (1.31/0.48/1.16/0.97/0.66); leg formula: 1423. LEGS SPINATION: femur I, II, III (0); IV 1-1-4d; patellae I, II, IV (0); III with 6pd; tibia I 1-2v; II 1v; 1vap; III 1p; 1d, 1v, 3vap; IV 1-2v, 2vap; metatarsus I (0); II 1-1; 1vap; III 1p, 1-2d, 3d; 2vap; 1r; IV 1-2v, 2vap; tarsus I–IV (0). GENITALIA: Palp measurements: 0.80/0.36/0.610.37; bulb: 0.34/0.15. Palpal tibia wider basally; cymbium with four spines apically (
Fig. 52A, B
); bulb elongated with small constriction; embolus short and sinuous (
Fig. 52C–E
).
Female
: Unknown.
Distribution.
Only found at the
type
locality in
Pichincha Province
,
Ecuador
.
Natural history.
Specimens were collected by pitfalls trap in a low evergreen forest.