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 9c420610-57be-4c96-9b52-bdef7eb38b97 1175-5326 238391 078D1D20-0232-4CA0-B003-2D830F6B39BB 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 .