A revision of the Neotropical nursery-web spider genus Architis (Araneae: Pisauridae)
Author
Santos, Adalberto J.
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Architis comaina
sp. nov.
Figures 7A–D
,
11
Type material.
Holotype
: male,
Cordillera Del Condor
, alto
Río Comaina
,
Puesto
de Vigilancia
22 (Falso Paquisha), department of
Amazonas
,
Peru
,
4
o
27’S
,
78
o
13’W
,
21 October–3 November 1987
,
D. Silva
(
MUSM
)
.
Paratypes
: male and
two females
, same locality (
MUSM
)
;
2 males
and
2 females
, same locality (
IBSP 71965
)
.
Etymology.
The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
Diagnosis.
Architis comaina
sp. nov.
resembles
A. tenuis
and
A. cymatilis
by eye size and arrangement (
Carico 1981
; fig. 11), the presence of ventral cuspule-like spines on male coxae I (
Fig. 4E
), the prolaterally notched VTA (
Figs 2A
,
3A
,
7A
) and the basally fused vRTA and dRTA (
Figs 2B
,
3B
,
7B
). It can be distinguished by larger, ventrally projected vRTA (
Fig. 7B
) and the longer and narrower apex of the cymbium (
Fig. 7A
) of the male pedipalpus. Females are similar to
A. ikuruwa
by the CD which are encapsulated in epigynal folds (
Fig. 8B
), but can be differentiated by the sinuous border of the LL of the epigynum (
Fig. 7C
) and the sinuous and apically expanded internal epigynal folds (
Fig. 7D
).
Description
Male
(
based on
holotype
from
Cordillera Del Condor
,
Peru
)
Carapace reddish-brown, dark brown medially and marginally. Anterior eye row procurved, lateral eyes strongly projected ventrally and almost twice as large as medians. Posterior eyes of similar size. Clypeus cream-coloured, chelicerae reddish-brown. Sternum cream-coloured, with marginal brown spots at the base of coxae. Labium and endites reddish-brown. Pedipalpi and legs reddish-brown, with dark lateral spots. Opisthosoma dark gray dorsally, with gray spots. Venter and sides cream-coloured, with dark spots. Spinnerets reddish-brown. Total length 5.3; carapace 1.8 long, 1.6 wide. Tibia I length 4.2, II 4.2, III 2.8, IV 3.4. Opisthosoma 2.5 long, 1.3 wide. VTA slightly sclerotised apically; conductor wide, directed anteriorly (
Fig. 7A
).
Female
(
based on
paratype
(
MUSM
) from
Cordillera Del Condor
,
Peru
)
Colouration as male. Total length 4.8; carapace 1.9 long, 1.7 wide. Tibia I length 3.5, II 3.4, III 2.6, IV 3.0. Opisthosoma 2.9 long, 1.7 wide. Epigynum with LL ventrally projected over MF; copulatory openings positioned anteriorly, inside wide lateral atria (
Fig. 7C
).
Variation.
Males, total length 4.2–5.3, carapace width 1.6. Females, total length 4.5–5.0, carapace width 1.6–1.7.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality in northern
Peru
(
Fig. 11
).