Descriptions of twelve new species of ochyroceratids (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from mainland Ecuador
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
text
Zootaxa
2015
3956
4
451
475
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.1
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1175-5326
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Ochyrocera cashcatotoras
new species
Figs 45–47
, map 1.
Type
material.
Male
holotype
from
Ecuador
, Bolívar Province, Cashca Totoras (
01º 42' 24''S
,
78º 58'58''W
), 02– 0
6 October 2000
, L. Coloma, F. Maza (
QCAZ
). EXAMINED.
Other material examined.
Ecuador
: Bolívar Province: Cashca Totoras (
01º 42' 24''S
,
78º 58'58''W
),
3000m
,
02–06 October 2000
,
3♂
, L. Coloma, F. Maza (
QCAZ
).
FIGURES 45–47.
Ochyrocera cashcatotoras
sp. n.
Male 45–47.
45.
Habitus, dorsal view.
46.
Palp, retrolateral view.
47.
Palp, prolateral view.
Etymology.
The specific epithet is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality Cashca Totoras,
Ecuador
.
Diagnosis.
Males are distinguished from all
Ochyrocera
by their unique spine-liked projection of the carapace situated between the PME (
Fig. 45
).
Description.
Male
:
Total length: 1.5; carapace length: 0.7; carapace width: 0.6.
PROSOMA: Carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; shiny, greenish with blackish lateral bands and trident mark medially; pars cephalica slightly elevated; fovea not visible (
Fig. 45
). Sternum blackish; as long as wide. Endites light yellow apically strongly suffused with dark gray; labium strongly suffused with dark gray; notch. Clypeus sloping with dark gray band medially; high (
4x
AME). Chelicerae yellow-green; medially suffused with gray; promargin with a series of seven teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin without teeth. EYES: Six eyes surrounded by black pigmentation about equal size; PME rounded, separated by tubercle bearing large spine-liked projection; PME-ALE contiguous; ALE rounded contiguous with PLE; PLE rounded (
Fig. 45
). OPISTHOSOMA: Oval; uniformly dark blueish with a purple tinge (
Fig. 45
); tracheal spiracle half way between epigastric furrow and spinnerets. LEGS: Greenish; tip and base of femur suffused with dark gray; patella, tibia, metatarsus and tarsus greenish-blue; metatarsus and tarsus with white rings pigmentation appearing as pseudosegmentation: leg formula 4123; legs total length: I: 4.1; II: 4.0; III 3.2; IV: 4.2. GENITALIA: Palpal femur long; palpal patella normal; palpal tibia slightly enlarged basally; with three dorsal and two retrolateral trichobothria (
Figs 46, 47
). Cymbium conical with rectangular extension prolaterally (
Fig. 47
); retrolateral apophysis digitiform without cuspule (
Fig. 46
). Bulb oval (
Fig. 47
). Embolus very long, flexed at base and projecting forward; flagellum-shaped (
Fig. 47
); sperm duct 1/ 2 narrowing from beginning to the tip of embolus without loop (
Figs 46, 47
).
Female
:
Unknown.
Distribution.
Ecuador
: Bolívar Province.
Natural history.
Collected in a montane broadleaf evergreen forest at an altitud of
3000m
.