A Taxonomic Review of the Trapdoor Spider Genus Myrmekiaphila (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae)
Author
BOND, JASON E.
Author
PLATNICK, NORMAN I.
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American Museum Novitates
2007
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Myrmekiaphila torreya
Gertsch and Wallace
Figures 9
,
19
,
29
,
63
,
71–77
Myrmekiaphila torreya
Gertsch and Wallace, 1936: 15
, figs. 15, 17–25 (male
holotype
and female
allotype
from
Torreya Ravine
,
Liberty Co.
,
Florida
, in AMNH, examined).
DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the presence of a relatively slender palpal prong and embolus, with the shorter auxiliary prong subequal in diameter to the embolus (figs. 9, 29). Females are difficult to definitively diagnose, but have spermathecae with an enlarged base that extends subequally from a central bulb that lacks an elongate stalk (fig. 77).
DESCRIPTIONS: Male and female described by
Gertsch and Wallace (1936)
.
MATERIAL EXAMINED: UNITED STATES:
FLORIDA
:
Gadsden Co.
: no specific locality [
30.5633
–84.6027
, MYR211],
Apr. 14, 1935
(H.
Wallace
,
AMNH
),
1♀
.
Jackson Co.
:
Merritts Mill Pond
,
3.5 mi
E Marianna
on U.S. 90 [
30.753
–85.1933
, MYR215],
Oct. 9, 1967
(F.
Moore
,
FSCA
),
1♀
;
7 mi
S Marianna on State Road
71, in woods, 100 yards from
Chipola River
[
30.6815
–85.2069
, MYR277],
Aug. 4, 1963
(B.
Mansell
, F.
Moore
,
AMNH
),
1♀
,
spiderlings.
Jefferson Co.
: no specific locality [
30.4169
–83.8957
, MYR241],
Apr. 7, 1969
(H.
Wallace
,
FSCA
), 23
;
Big Bend Horticulture Lab
[
30.516
–83.888
MYR106– 108],
Apr. 7–28, 1969
(
FSCA
),
33.
Leon Co.
: no specific locality [
30.4946
–84.2082
, MYR210, 263, 264],
Apr. 15–16, 1936
(
R
.
Bellamy, J
.
Rogers, H
.
Wallace
,
FSCA
),
8♀
,
4 juv.
;
Tallahassee
,
Tall Timbers Research Station
[
30.658769
–84.208445
, MYR109– 114, 227, 229–235, 238, 239, 246, 258–260],
Mar.–June 1970
(D.
Harris
, W.
Whitcomb
,
FSCA
), 363,
2♀
,
2 juv.
,
[MYR258],
Apr. 9, 1970
(
R
.
Woodruff
,
FSCA
),
1♀
,
[MYR259, 260],
Aug–Sept. 1968
(W.
Baker
,
FSCA
),
1♀
,
1 juv.
Liberty Co.
: no specific locality [
30.2508
–84.8755
, MYR205],
Nov. 4, 1938
(H.
Wallace
,
FSCA
),
1♀
,
[MYR213],
Apr. 8, 1941
(H.
Wallace
,
FSCA
),
1♀
,
[MYR206, 207],
Apr. 14, 1951
(H.
Wallace
,
FSCA
),
2♀
,
2 juv.
,
[MYR242],
June 4, 1953
(H.
Wallace
,
FSCA
),
1♀
,
[MYR216],
Aug. 18, 1960
(
JMCC
,
MCZ
),
8♀
;
just E
Apalachicola
on FL-20,
30.43181
–84.33987
[MY2567–2572],
Feb. 27, 2004
(
B. Hendrixson
, D.
Beamer
,
ECU-AMNH
),
6♀
;
near
Sweet Water
in deep ravine,
30.51075
–84.95982
, elev.
73 m
[MY2575, 2576],
Feb. 28, 2004
(B.
Hendrixson
, D.
Beamer
,
ECU-AMNH
),
2♀
;
Torreya Ravine
,
Torreya State Park
,
10 mi
NE Bristol
, 30.56678 –84.95, [MYR208],
Apr. 10, 1935
, (H.
Wallace
,
FSCA
),
2♀
,
[MYR237, 270, 273],
Apr. 10, 1935
(H.
Wallace
,
AMNH
),
4♀
,
one with spiderlings, [MYR217, 218, 240, 262, 272, 276],
Apr. 17– 18, 1936
(
R
.
Bellamy, H
.
Wallace
,
AMNH
,
MCZ
), 503,
16♀
,
6 juv.
,
[MYR275],
Apr. 16, 1938
, (W.
Gertsch
,
AMNH
),
6♀
,
[MYR148],
Apr. 8, 1941
(H.
Wallace
,
FSCA
),
1♀
,
[MYR102],
June 4, 1953
(H.
Wallace
,
FSCA
),
1♀
,
[MYR261],
Mar. 10, 1963
(
AMNH
),
1 juv.
,
[MYR274],
Apr. 2, 1963
(W.
Shear
,
AMNH
),
2♀
,
[MYR104],
Apr. 20, 1963
(A.
Derbonne
,
FSCA
),
1♀
,
[MYR236],
Mar. 15, 1964
(F.
Moore
,
FSCA
), 13, [MYR115],
Mar. 29, 1964
(
AMNH
), 13,
Mar. 31, 1964
(A.
Weaver
, F.
Coyle
,
VMNH
),
1♀
,
[MYR197],
Mar. 31, 1965
(J.
Beatty
,
JAB
),
2♀
,
[MYR265– 269, 271],
May 1965
,
Apr.
,
Sept. 1967
(F.
Moore
,
FSCA
),
11♀
,
2 juv.
,
Aug. 16, 1966
(W.
Shear
,
VMNH
),
2♀
,
[MYR105],
May 18, 1973
(G.
Edwards
,
FSCA
),
1♀
,
[MYR103],
Mar. 10, 1978
(D.
Richman
,
FSCA
),
2♀
;
[MYR226],
Mar. 31, 1979
(P.
Choate
,
FSCA
), 23, [MYR286],
Feb. 15, 1986
(D.
Folkerts
,
AMNH
),
1♀
.
GEORGIA
:
Cob Co.
:
Kennesaw
,
Chastain Lakes
[
34.0234
–84.6155
, MYR083],
Nov. 15, 1997
(H.
McNatt
,
AMNH
), 13.
Early Co
.
:
8.5 mi
NNW Blakely
[
31.4645
–84.99667
, MYR001–003],
Mar. 24, 1992
(G.
Folkerts
,
AMNH
),
3♀
.
Floyd Co.
:
Rome
[
34.257
–85.1647
, MYR248], (
R
.
Battey
,
MCZ
), 13.
Fulton Co.
:
Atlanta
[33.75 –84.41667, MYR203, 250],
Apr. 14–16, 1946
(
P. Fattig
,
AMNH
), 13,
1♀
.
Monroe Co.
:
Forsyth
[
33.03438
–83.9382
, MYR209],
Nov. 1, 1963
(N.
Mason
,
AMNH
),
1♀
.
Thomas Co.
: SE edge
Thomasville
,
Millpond Plantation
[
30.807
–83.9627
, MYR212],
Mar. 31, 1968
(W.
Sedgwick
,
AMNH
),
1♀
,
spiderlings, [MYR214],
June 16, 1973
(F.
Coyle
, W.
Shear
,
AMNH
),
1♀
, spiderlings.
Figs. 71–77.
Myrmekiaphila torreyi
Gertsch and Wallace
from Liberty Co., Florida.
71–73.
Male left leg I: retrolateral, prolateral, and ventral (metarsus) views.
74–76.
Male left pedipalp: retrolateral, ventral, and prolateral views.
77.
Spermathecae.
Figs. 78–84.
Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi
,
new species
, from Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama.
78–80.
Male left leg I: retrolateral, prolateral, and ventral (metarsus) views.
81–83.
Male left pedipalp: retrolateral, ventral, and prolateral views.
84.
Spermathecae.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from
Georgia
and adjacent Florida (fig. 63).