Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae
Author
Huber, Bernhard A.
Author
Colmenares, Pío A.
Author
Ramirez, Martin J.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3847
3
413
422
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5
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Mesabolivar
González-Sponga, 1998
Mesabolivari
González-Sponga, 1998
: 27.
Mesabolivar
:
Huber 2000
: 189
.
Kaliana
Huber, 2000
: 271
. Synonymized by
Astrin, Misof & Huber (2007)
.
Autana
González-Sponga, 2011b
: 40
;
type
species:
Autana autanensis
González-Sponga, 2011b
;
new synonymy.
Caruaya
González-Sponga, 2011b
: 40
–41;
type
species:
Caruaya
anseriformis
González-Sponga, 2011b
;
new synonymy.
Rioparaguanus
González-Sponga, 2005
: 104
;
type
species:
Rioparaguanus
spinosus
González-Sponga, 2005
;
new synonymy.
Justifications of synonymies.
Mesabolivar anseriformis
(
González-Sponga, 2011b
);
new combination.
The procursus of this species is strongly curved, similar to the
type
species
M. pseudoblechroscelis
González-Sponga, 1998
and to the closely related
M. huambisa
Huber, 2000
. However, the chelicerae of
M. anseriformis
(
2♂
types
from Bolívar State,
Venezuela
, re-examined by PAC) have a distinctive pair of small apophyses close to the fangs (González-Sponga’s drawing of the chelicerae are confusing and wrong). Several males and females of this species were collected in 2002 at km 109 on the road El Dorado to
Santa Elena
de Uairén, Estado Bolívar,
Venezuela
(BAH), about
140 km
from the
type
locality. The material is deposited in ZFMK.
Mesabolivar spinosus
(
González-Sponga, 2005
)
;
new combination.
We have not re-examined the
type
specimens (
2♂
2♀ from Bolívar State,
Venezuela
), but González-Sponga’s drawings clearly show the distinctive characters of
Mesabolivar
(male cheliceral apophyses close to median line; median epigynal pocket) and the shape of the palp reminds strongly of the widespread
M. aurantiacus
(
Mello-Leitão, 1930
)
.
For
Autana
, see
Mesabolivar aurantiacus
below.