On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae)
Author
Huber, Bernhard A.
33607F65-19BF-4DC9-94FD-4BB88CED455F
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany.
b.huber@leibniz-zfmk.de
Author
Villarreal, Osvaldo
679C385E-B068-4351-9D2F-97753E534C26
Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela. & Museu Nacional / UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
osvaldovillarreal@gmail.com
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-10-01
718
1
317
journal article
10.5852/ejt.2020.718.1101
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Priscula chejapi
González-Sponga, 1999
Figs 967–971
, 1062
Priscula chejapi
González-Sponga, 1999: 132
, figs 10–19 (♂
♀
).
Misidentification
Priscula chejapi
–
Huber 2000: 139
, figs 533–535 (♂).
Notes
We reexamined the type material: ♂
holotype
,
1 ♀
paratype
, MIZA 105653 (MAGS 1362), “Central Hidroelectrica General José Antonio Paez” [approximately
8.883° N
,
70.635° W
],
10 Jul. 1992
(A.R. Delgado de G., M. García, M.A. González S.). The palp of the
holotype
is shown in
Figs 967–968
; the procursus differs clearly from the figures in
Huber (2000
: figs 533–534), which are thus based on a misidentified specimen (of a formally undescribed species). The palp of the
holotype
appears identical to that of
P. venezuelana
Simon, 1893
. The two species are
not
synonymized here because the epigynum of the
paratype
of
P. chejapi
(
Figs 970–971
) appears slightly rounder (less triangular) in ventral view and is
not
flanked by a pair of dark anterior sclerites like that of
P. venezuelana
.
Distribution
Known from
type
locality only, in
Venezuela
,
Mérida
(Fig. 1062).