The Neotropical genera Guadana Rheims, 2010 and Sparianthina Banks, 1929 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)
Author
Rheims, Cristina A.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-11-05
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journal article
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Guadana amendoim
sp. n.
Figs 15−16
,
20−21
,
24−25
Type material:
Holotype
:
♀
from
BRAZIL
:
Acre
:
Senador Guiomard
,
Reserva Extrativista de Catuaba
[
-10.0667
,
-67.6167
], 2002,
E. Morato
et al.
leg. (
IBSP 98083
)
.
Paratype
:
1♀
, same data as holotype (
IBSP 135243
)
.
Etymology.
The specific name means peanut in Portuguese and refers to a traditional festival (Festival do Amendoim) from Senador Guiomard,
type
locality of the species; noun in apposition.
Diagnosis.
Females of
G. amendoim
sp. n.
resemble those of
G. alpahuayo
sp. n.
and
G. manauara
by the epigyne with MS bearing pair of epigynal pockets (
Figs 4
,
15
,
77
). They are distinguished in having the pockets separated and opening posteriorly (
Figs 15
,
24
) (medially connected and opening anteriorly in the latter species). Males are unknown.
Description. Female (
holotype
):
Prosoma pale brownish orange with sub-marginal pale brown stripes and two small irregular pale brown marks at the base of cephalic region; fovea and thoracic striae pale brown; eye borders black. Chelicerae, legs and palps pale orange with small brown spots. Labium brown. Endites pale yellowish-cream, darker at base; sternum pale yellowish-orange with brown margins. Opisthosoma pale gray; dorsally with lighter lateral margins with few whitish guanine spots and two pairs of rounded brown muscle impressions; ventrally with scattered whitish guanine spots and pair of curved lines of muscle impressions; spinnerets pale yellowish orange (
Figs 20−21
). Total length 7.5. Prosoma: 3.1 long, 3.2 wide. Opisthosoma: 4.2 long, 3.5 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.17, 0.20, 0.15, 0.22; interdistances: 0.13, 0.06, 0.31, 0.26, 0.27, 0.24. Legs (2143): I: 13.9 (4.0, 1.4, 4.0, 3.3, 1.2); II: 15.6 (4.6, 1.5, 4.5, 3.7, 1.3); III: 11.9 (3.7, 1.2, 3.1, 2.9, 1.0); IV: 12.6 (3.7, 1.0, 3.3, 3.4, 1.2). Epigyne: epigynal field slightly wider than long with lateral muscle attachment bands; MS squared, slightly longer than wide; paired epigynal pockets two times wider than long (
Figs 15
,
24
). Vulva: internal ducts running anteriad from CO then posteriad to SP; SP oval; FD antero-laterad (mating plugs blocking CO)(
Figs 16
,
25
).
Male.
Unknown.
Variation.
Females (n = 2): total length 7.5−8.2; prosoma length 3.0−3.1.
Distribution.
Only known from the
type
locality in northwestern
Brazil
(
Fig. 81
).