A Revision of the Spider Genus Zorocrates Simon (Araneae, Zorocratidae)
Author
PLATNICK, NORMAN I.
Author
UBICK, DARRELL
text
American Museum Novitates
2007
2007-06-28
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Zorocrates huatusco
,
new species
figures 39, 40
; map 3
TYPE: Female
holotype
taken in cloud forest litter at an elevation of
1040 m
at a site
7 km
east of
Huatusco
,
Veracruz
,
Mexico
(
June 22, 1983
;
R. Anderson
,
S. Peck
), deposited in AMNH
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males are unknown, but females of this distinctive species can easily be recognized by the reduced cribellum, the wide anterior epigynal margin that is unconnected to any median epigynal septum (
fig. 39
), and the widely separated lateral epigynal ducts (
fig. 40
).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE: Total length 11. Coloration as in
Z. blas
. Leg spination: femora: I d0-1-0, p0-0- 2, r0-0-0; II d1-1-0, p0-0-1, r0-0-1; III, IV p0- 0-1, r0-0-1; patellae IV r0-1-0; tibiae: I, II d0- 0-0, p0-0-1, r0-0-0; III r1-0-1; IV d1-1-1; metatarsi: I, II p0-0-0, v2-2-2, r0-0-0; III r1- 2-2. Cribellum reduced, with spinning field restricted to pair of tiny triangles smaller than spinning fields of anterior lateral spinnerets. Anterior epigynal margin wide, recurved; lateral epigynal ducts longitudinal, widely separated (
figs. 39, 40
).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from
Veracruz
,
Mexico
(map 3).