Curicaberis, a new genus of Sparassidae from North and Central America (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparassinae)
Author
Rheims, Cristina A.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4012
3
401
446
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.1
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1175-5326
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Curicaberis durango
sp. nov.
Figs 39−40, Map 2
Type
material:
Holotype
:
♂, near
Durango
[
24°33’N
,
104°39’W
],
Durango
,
Mexico
, 1906, H.V. Jackson leg. (
AMNH
).
Etymology.
The specific name is a noun in apposition and refers to the
type
locality.
Diagnosis.
Males of
C. durango
sp. nov.
are distinguished from those of the other species of the genus by the vRTA1 as large as vRTA2 triangular in ventral view and rounded in retrolateral view, vRTA2 bifid with two small, similar sized branches, one rounded and the other distally blunt (best seen in retrolateral view, Fig. 40). Females are unknown.
Description. Male:
Prosoma brown, darker along fovea and thoracic striae. Chelicerae, legs and pedipalps brown. Labium and endites brownish-orange, distally cream colored. Sternum orange with brown margins. Opisthosoma pale brown, dorsally with darker V-shaped stripe in anterior half and five median brown chevrons on posterior half, ventrally sparsely mottled with pale brown spots. Total length 10.0. Prosoma: 4.8 long, 4.9 wide. Opisthosoma: 4.9 long, 4.0 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.36, 0.32, 0.24, 0.28; interdistances: 0.22, 0.10, 0.46, 0.40, 0.30, 0.24. Legs (2143): I: 28.3 (7.8, 2.9, 7.5, 7.8, 2.3); II: 31.0 (8.6, 3.0, 8.4, 8.5, 2.5); III: 21.3 (6.6, 2.3, 5.4, 5.4, 1.6); IV: 25.1 (7.6, 2.3, 6.4, 6.9, 1.9). Palp: dRTA long. Subtegulum visible at 9 o’clock position. Embolus arising medially from tegulum. Conductor with roughly same width throughout its entire length. (Figs 39−40).
Female:
Unknown.
Distribution.
Only known from the
type
locality in the state of
Durango
,
Mexico
(Map 2).