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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Metagonia juliae
González-Sponga, 2010
Figs 677–680
, 1054
Metagonia juliae
González-Sponga, 2010: 20
, pl. 5, figs 1–9.
Diagnosis
Easily distinguished from known congeners by modification of male clypeus (arrow in
Fig. 679
, slender process with bifid tip), by modification of male chelicerae (
Fig. 679
; pair of lateral processes and distal patches of ~10–12 globular hairs on each side), and by long and distally widened ventral hinged process on procursus (arrow in
Fig. 678
).
Figs 677–680.
Metagonia juliae
González-Sponga, 2010
; male holotype and female paratype (MIZA 105770; MAGS 279).
677–678
. Left male pedipalp, prolateral and retrolateral views (arrow: ventral hinged process).
679
. Male prosoma, oblique frontal view (arrow: clypeus process).
680
. Female genitalia, ventral view. Scale lines: 0.3 mm.
Type
material
VENEZUELA
–
Miranda
•
♂
holotype
and
1 ♀
paratype
,
MIZA 105770
(
MAGS 279
),
El Ávila National Park
,
Estación de Guardaparques
‘
La Julia’
[
10.5054° N
,
66.8116° W
,
1140 m
a.s.l.
],
17 Jul. 1981
(
J.A. González
D.); examined
.
Distribution
Known from
type
locality only, in
Venezuela
,
Miranda
(Fig. 1054).
Natural history
According to
González-Sponga (2010)
, the two specimens were
not
collected from leaves but from crevices in road cuts.