On the taxonomy of the jumping spider genus Matinta Ruiz & Maddison, 2019, with a taxonomic revision of the vicana species-group (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycini)
Author
Matos, Tainá D. S.
0009-0003-3766-0133
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Pará / Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil tainamatos 2222 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0003 - 3766 - 0133
tainamatos2222@gmail.com
Author
Ruiz, Gustavo R. S.
0000-0002-7326-7000
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01, CEP 66075 - 110, Belém, PA, Brazil gustavoruiz 86 @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7326 - 7000
gustavoruiz86@hotmail.com
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-09-07
5343
2
126
150
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5343.2.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5343.2.2
1175-5326
8324346
63876BA9-D973-40E1-BB4B-03F60CD088A7
Matinta aragog
sp. nov.
Figs 29–30
,
42–43
,
49
,
55
,
78–79
,
91
Type material.
Holotype
:
♁ from
French Guiana
,
Réserve Naturelle National de la Trinité
(4.583⁰
N 53.3
⁰W),
25.X.2008
,
C. Courtial
leg. (
MNHN
).
Etymology.
The epithet is given in apposition honoring the giant spider present in Harry Potter’s series.
Diagnosis.
The male of
M. aragog
is similar to those of the species within the
vicana
species-group, especially those of
M. maddisoni
for having mastidia, separate prolateral cheliceral teeth, a bump on the cheliceral fang and a more symmetrical palpal bulb. It can be distinguished from
M. maddisoni
for having the bifid embolus tip (
Figs 42
,
49
) and a triangular RTA in retrolateral view (
Figs 43
,
55
; squared in
M. maddisoni
).
Description. Male
(
Figs 29–30
). Total length: 6.02. Carapace dark reddish-brown, 3.11 long, 2.27 wide and 1.63 high. Ocular area 1.27 long, with white scales between posterior lateral and median eyes. Anterior eye row 1.92 and posterior 1.74 wide. Chelicera dark brown, with a mastidion and a bump on the fang (
Figs 78–79
); PMT: 2, RMT: 5, PIMT: 4, RIMT: 1 (
Fig. 91
). Palp (
Figs 42–43
,
49
,
55
) light brown. Sternum yellow. Legs 1324; I: dark brown; II–III: femur proximally yellow, distally dark brown, other articles dark brown; IV: brown. Leg length: I 6.72 (femur: 2.06; patella: 0.88; tibia: 1.90; metatarsus: 1.10; tarsus: 0.78); II 5.56 (1.72; 1.02; 1.38; 0.82; 0.62); III 6.33 (2.23; 1.00; 1.33; 1.17; 0.60); IV 5.47 (1.70; 0.70; 1.27; 1.19; 0.61). Leg spination: femur I d1-1-1, p0-1-2, r0-0-2; II d1-1-1, p0-0-2, r0-0-2; III d1-1-1, p0-1-2, r0-0-1; IV d1-1-1, p0-0-1, r0-0-1; patella I–II p0-1-0; III–IV p0-1-0, r0-1-0; tibia I v2-1r-2, p1-0-1, r0; II v1r-2-2, p1-0-1, r0; III v2-0-2, p1-0-0, r1-1-1; IV v1p-0-2; p1-0-0, r1-1-1; metatarsus I–II v2-2; III v2-0-2, p2-0-2, r2-0-2; IV v0-2, p2-0-2, r1-1-2. The dorsal region of the abdomen cream-colored with sparse dark brown markings (
Fig. 29
); ventrally with wide longitudinal dark brown stripe (
Fig. 30
). Spinnerets brown.
FIGURES 66–68.
M. tatianae
sp. nov.
66–67 male holotype (66 dorsal view; 67 ventral view). 68 male paratype from Paragominas, laterofrontal view.
Female.
Unknown.
Note.
Matinta fasciata
(Mello-Leit„o, 1940) was described from
Guyana
, near the border with
Venezuela
. Given the distance between the
two type
localities, separated by
700–800 km
, and the more conspicuous abdominal pattern in
M. fasciata
(see Mello-Leit„o 1940: fig. 25), we are describing the male of
M. aragog
as a new taxon.
Distribution.
Known only from
type
locality (French Guiana).