Description of the females of Anapis castilla and Anapisona bordeaux (Araneae, Anapidae).
Author
Ott, R.
Author
A. D. Brescovit
text
J. Arachnol.
2003
31
340
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Anapis castilla Platnick & Shadab
Figs. 1 - 6
Anapis castilla
Platnick & Shadab 1978:22
, fig. 20
(male
holotype
from
Berlese sample of forest litter
collected at the
edge of the Amazon River at
Ramon
Castilla (
5 km
NW. of Leticia, Colombia), Loreto
,
Peru
,
23 February 1972,
S. & J. Peck,
deposited in
Field Museum of Natural History,
Chicago, not examined).
Material examined.-
BRAZIL
:
Amazonas
: 27 males, 31 females,
Manaus
,
Rio
Solimoes
,
Canal Janauari
(
03° 20' S
,
60° 17' W,
"
agua
mista"),
1988
,
J. Adis
et al. (
MCN 23687;
IBSP 34436-34440;
SMNK
;
INPA
)
;
7 ♂, 2 ♀, with same locality data,
1 March 1988
(
MCN 23686).
Diagnosis.
- Females
of
A. castilla
are distinguished from other
Anapis
females by strong sclerotizations around the opening of the copulatory ducts (Figs. 5 - 6).
Description. -
Male
: Described by
Platnick & Shadab (1978)
. Body and palp are here presented in Figs. 1 - 3. Female: Carapace, sternum and abdominal scutum brownish orange. Legs orange. Tibia I with one very short distal prolateral cusp. Anterior portion of carapace not projecting, as in male (Fig 4). Anterior lateral eyes separated by about one third of their diameter. Scutum of abdomen smooth, covering the dorsum entirely, with very small and abundant lateral punctuations (Fig 4). Surface of ventral scutum covered with irregularly dispersed and very slightly sclerotized depressions. Measurements. Total length 1.27. Carapace 0.62 long, 0.50 wide, 0.40 high. Abdomen 1.18 long, 1.04 wide. Legs: I, femur 0.48, patella 0.20, tibia 0.30, metatarsus 0.14, tarsus 0.38, total 1.50; II, 0.42, 0.18, 0.28, 0.12, 0.34, 1.34; III, 0.30, 0.14, 0.22, 0.12, 0.30, 1.08; IV, 0.40, 0.14, 0.28, 0.14, 0.32, 1.28. Epigynal plate with very dark portions surrounding the genital openings and sinuous posterior margin. Spermathecae small, ducts "S" shaped. (Figs. 5 - 6).