A new species of the spider genus Wirada (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Mexico, with taxonomic notes on the genus and a key to the species
Author
Campuzano, Emmanuel F.
Author
Ibarra-Núñez, Guillermo
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-08-09
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4457.3.13
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Wirada
Keyserling, 1886
Type species:
Wirada punctata
Keyserling, 1886
Diagnosis.
Wirada
is close to
Phoroncidia
Westwood, 1835
by sharing a heavily sclerotized opisthosoma, sclerotized plates around spinnerets, a colulus replaced by two setae and an embolus shifted ectally, but it differs by having chitinous setiferous bridges on the carapace and sternum, and by the theridioid tegular apophysis embedded in the tegulum.
Crustulina
Menge, 1868
also has chitinous setiferous bridges on carapace and sternum, and embolus shifted ectally, but differs from
Wirada
by having an opisthosoma only partially sclerotized, a developed colulus, an apophysis in the cymbal distal promargin and a palpal conductor.