Filling the gaps: descriptions of unnamed species included in the latest molecular phylogeny of Pholcidae (Araneae)
Author
Huber, Bernhard A.
Author
Carvalho, Leonardo S.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-01-22
4546
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4546.1.1
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Pemona sapo
Huber
sp. n.
Figs 114–122
Gen.n. Ven01:
Eberle
et al.
2018
(molecular data); Huber
et al.
2018: fig. 2.
Type material
.
VENEZUELA
:
♂
holotype
, ZFMK (
Ar
20620),
Bolívar
, forest near
Salto El Sapo
at
Canaima
(
6°14.5’N
,
62°51’W
), ~
400 m
a.s.l.
,
9.xii.2002
(
B.A. Huber
)
.
Other material examined
.
VENEZUELA
:
3♂
3♀
, ZFMK (Ar 20621), and
4♀
in pure ethanol, ZFMK (Ven02/100-1), same data as holotype
.
Etymology
. The species name is derived from the
type
locality; noun in apposition.
Diagnosis
. Distinguished from other New World
Ninetinae
by the combination of (1) procursus distally widened and provided with sclerotized scales (
Fig. 118
); (2) genital bulb with small apophysis (
Fig. 117
); (3) male chelicerae with stridulatory ridges and pair of simple frontal apophyses (
Figs 119–120
); (4) presence of shallow thoracic furrow (
Fig. 119
), and (5) male sternum with pair of anterior humps (
Fig. 119
). Distinguished from sister genus
Kambiwa
by length of procursus (procursus in
Kambiwa
consistently short, i.e. shorter than genital bulb) and very short retrolatero-dorsal bulbal apophysis (in
Kambiwa
consistently long and curved).
Description. Male
(
holotype
). MEASUREMENTS. Total length 1.12, carapace width 0.52. Distance PME-PME 45 µm; diameter PME 55 µm; distance PME-ALE 20 µm; distance AME-AME 10 µm, diameter AME 30 µm. Leg 1: 2.68 (0.74 + 0.18 + 0.68 + 0.72 + 0.36), tibia 2: 0.58, tibia 3: 0.52, tibia 4: 0.76; tibia 1 L/d: 10.
COLOR (in ethanol). Prosoma and legs ochre-yellow, only thoracic furrow slightly darker. Abdomen ochregray, with indistinct darker spots.
BODY. Habitus as in
Figs 115–116
. Ocular area barely elevated, only posteriorly separated from carapace, thoracic furrow present (
Fig. 119
); clypeus unmodified. Sternum slightly wider than long (0.36/0.32), with distinct pair of anterior humps (
Fig. 119
).
CHELICERAE. With pair of simple frontal apophyses and stridulatory ridges (
Figs 119–120
).
PALPS. As in
Figs 117–118
; coxa unmodified, trochanter with ventral rounded projection, femur proximally with stridulatory pick (modified hair), tibia widened, procursus distally widened and provided with sclerotized scales, bulb with short hooked apophysis and membranous embolar division (
Fig. 117
).
Legs. Without spines and curved hairs, few vertical hairs; retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia 1 at 58%; tibia 1 without prolateral trichobothrium (present on other tibiae); tarsus 1 with 4–5 pseudosegments.
Male
(variation). Tibia
1 in
3 other males: 0.67, 0.68, 0.72.
Female
. In general similar to male but without humps on sternum. Tibia
1 in
7 females
: 0.66–0.70 (mean 0.68). Epigynum simple externally (
Figs 114
,
121
), apparently with pair of small pore plates (
Fig. 122
). ALS with one widened, one pointed, and several cylindrically shaped spigots.
Distribution
. Known from
type
locality only (
Fig. 345
).
Natural history
. This species was found in the leaf litter, on the undersides of dead leaves.