Curicaberis, a new genus of Sparassidae from North and Central America (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparassinae)
Author
Rheims, Cristina A.
text
Zootaxa
2015
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3
401
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.1
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Curicaberis tepic
sp. nov.
Figs 91−92
, Map 5
Type
material:
Holotype
:
♀, between
Tepic
and Pochotitlán [
21°28’N
,
104°54’W
], Nayarit,
Mexico
,
22 August 1905
, P. Goldsmith leg. (
MCZ
99595).
Etymology.
The specific name is a noun in apposition and refers to the
type
locality.
Diagnosis.
Females of
C. tepic
sp. nov.
are distinguished from those of the other species of the genus by the epigyne with median septum with wide posterior border, reaching more than half the septum length, forming a roughly oval atrium, less than two times wider than long (
Fig. 91
). Males are unknown.
Description. Female:
Badly preserved specimen. Prosoma brown, darker at cephalic region and along thoracic striae. Fovea dark brown. Eye borders black. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs and pedipalps brown. Sternum orange with brown margins. Endites orange, distally pale orange. Labium brown, distally pale orange. Opisthosoma yellowish cream colored, ventrally with thick, brown, longitudinal stripe. Total length 16.0. Prosoma: 5.2 long, 6.0 wide. Opisthosoma: 10.7 long, 8.0 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.41, 0.39, 0.29, 0.38; interdistances: 0.37, 0.26, 0.70, 0.68, 0.42, 0.33. Legs (probably 2143): I: 23.6 (6.3, 3.2, 6.0, 6.0, 2.1); II: (7.2, 3.1, 6.6, 6.4, tarsus absent); III: 17.9 (5.6, 2.2, 4.4, 4.2, 1.5); IV: 20.7 (6.4, 2.4, 5.0, 5.2, 1.7). Epigyne: epigynal field rounded, slightly longer than wide. Posterior margin of median septum not surpassing epigastric furrow (
Fig. 91
). Vulva: copulatory ducts short, slightly longer than half spermathecae length. Spermathecae, large, rounded. Basal part of fertilization ducts narrow, less than one-fourth copulatory duct width, distal part antero-laterad (
Fig. 92
).
FIGURES 91−94.
91−92
Curicaberis tepic
sp. nov.
, female (91 epigyne, ventral view, 92 vulva, retrolateral view); 93−94
Curicaberis tortugero
sp. nov.
, female (93 epigyne, ventral view, 94 vulva, dorsal view). CD = copulatory duct; FD = fertilization duct; GP = glandular projection; LL = lateral lobes; lp = lateral protrusion; MS = median septum; SP = spermathecae. Scale lines: 1 mm.
Male:
Unknown.
Distribution.
Only known from the
type
locality in the state of Nayarit,
Mexico
(Map 5).