Review of Harpactea ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae) of Portugal
Author
Řezáč, Milan
Crop Research Institute, Drnovská 507, CZ- 16106 Prague 6, Czechia
Author
Cardoso, Pedro
0000-0001-8119-9960
Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research (LIBRe), Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus, University of Helsinki, P. O. Box 17, FI- 00014 Helsinki, Finland. pedro. cardoso @ helsinki. fi; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8119 - 9960
pedro.cardoso@helsinki.fi
Author
Řezáčová, Veronika
0000-0002-1749-0355
Crop Research Institute, Drnovská 507, CZ- 16106 Prague 6, Czechia & strver @ seznam. cz; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1749 - 0355
strver@seznam.cz
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Zootaxa
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2023-04-06
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5263.3.2
journal article
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Harpactea crespoi
Řezáč
sp. nov.
(
Figs 1N
,
2N
,
3N
,
5F
,
8C
,
9
)
Type material.
Holotype
.
♁,
Moura
,
Serra
da Adiça
,
37.978
,
-7.294
,
Quercus coccifera
wood,
27 December 2005
, leg.
L. Crespo
, coll.
National Natural History Museum
,
Prague
, code P6A 7385.
Paratypes
.
Moura
,
Serra da Adiça
,
37.978
,
-7.294
,
Quercus coccifera
wood, 1
♁,
1 ♀
,
7 November 2005
, leg.
M. Řezáč
, coll.
Crop Research Institute
,
Prague
;
1 ♀
,
27 December 2005
, leg.
L. Crespo
, coll.
Crop Research Institute
,
Prague
; 6 ♁♁,
13 ♀♀
,
27 March 2013
, leg.
M. Řezáč
, coll.
Crop Research Institute
,
Prague
.
Etymology.
Named after the Portuguese arachnologist Luis Crespo, our friend, who helped to discover this species.
Diagnosis.
The species is characteristic by the cymbium bent around tegulum (
Fig. 3N
), tegulum wider than long and extremely long embolus (
Fig. 5F
). The embolus is very long also in
H. dolanskyi
sp. nov.
and
H. tavirensis
, but these species possess conductor, in
H. crespoi
sp. nov.
it is absent. The vulva is similar to that of
H. algarvensis
, but it lacks two pockets of whitish tissue in front of the anterior arc, and is less sclerotised, the only obviously sclerotised part of the anterior arc is the median rod (
Fig. 8C
).
Description.
Male (
holotype
).
Carapace pale brown, matting (
Fig. 1N
). Sternum brown-yellow, matting. Chelicerae pale brown. Legs are pale yellow, pedipalps darker. For measurements and leg spination see the
Table 1
. Relative leg length: IV>I>II>III. Cymbium slightly bent around the bulbus, with elongated distal part (
Fig. 3N
), and slightly concave basal half of the prolateral side. Tegulum wider than long (
Fig. 5F
). Conductor absent. Embolus dark, extremely long, slightly undulated, directing to the side, the base is bent in 180° angle. Opisthosoma cylindrical, whitish.
Female (
paratypes
).
All somatic characters as described for the male. The vulva is of the type
algarvensis
(see Materials and Methods) (
Fig. 8C
).The vulva is relatively small and only slightly sclerotised. The median rod is very weak. The posterior diverticle is a rudimentary spherical sclerotised spot.
Size range
. Male carapace length
1.6–2.3 mm
(1.9±0.18, N=8), female carapace length
1.53–1.86 mm
(1.72±0.17, N=3).
Ecology.
Adults were found in early spring in leaf litter of
Quercus coccifera
forests on northeastern slopes.
Distribution.
So far known only from Serra da Adiça, a small mountain range in southern
Portugal
.