On the Neotropical genus Adcatomus Karsch (Araneae: Sparassidae)
Author
Rheims, Cristina Anne
text
Zootaxa
2008
1809
61
66
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274339
6992b6fc-4f9f-4d16-8e7f-d28ce8fc90c5
1175-5326
274339
Adcatomus flavovittatus
(
Simon 1897
)
new combination
(
Figs. 11–16
)
Spatala flavovittata
Simon, 1897
: 47
;
Petrunkevitch, 1911
: 512
;
Roewer, 1954
: 711
;
Bonnet, 1958
: 4111
;
Platnick, 2008
.
Type
material:
Holotype
:
female, La Cumbre de Valencia, Parque Nacional Henri Pittier [
10°24' N
,
67°37' W
, Carabobo,
Venezuela
] (
MNHN
11440), examined.
Diagnosis
. The females of
A. flavovittatus
are distinguished from those of
A. ciudadus
by the presence of small intermarginal denticles in the cheliceral furrow (
Fig. 11
) and by the epigynum with medium septum with larger base and smaller anterior atrium (
Fig. 15
).
Description
.
Female (
holotype
):
Prosoma brown, darker along fovea and thoracic striae. Chelicerae dark brown, covered by long, orange setae. Pedipalps brown, except distal end of femora and patellae slightly lighter. Labium dark brown, distally orange. Endites dark brown, distally cream colored. Legs brown. Opisthosoma brownish gray with conspicuous, cream colored cardiac impression. Total length 20.4. Prosoma: 7.9 long, 7.0 wide. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.42, ALE 0.46, PME 0.28, PLE 0.38, AME– AME 0.32, AME–ALE 0.22, PME–PME 0.60, PME–PLE 0.60, AME–PME 0.42, ALE–PLE 0.34. Intermarginal denticles present. Leg measurements: I: femur 9.1; patella 3.2; tibia 8.5; metatarsus 7.9; tarsus 2.1; total 30.8; II: 9.6; 3.6; 8.9; 7.8; 2.1; 32.0; III: 7.8; 3.0; 6.5; 5.4; 1.8; 24.5; IV: 8.7; 2.8; 6.4; 6.4; 2.0; 26.3. Spination follows the generic pattern. Opisthosoma: 12.2 long, 9.2 wide.
Male:
unknown.
Distribution.
Only known from the
type
locality.