Two new species of the ghost spider genus Macrophyes O. Pickard-Cambridge 1893 from Colombia and description of the first male of Mesilla Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Anyphaenidae: Anyphaeninae)
Author
Martínez, Leonel
0000-0002-4166-0561
Grupo de Investigación Biodiversidad del Caribe Colombiano, Semillero de Investigación Sistemática de Artrópodos Neotropicales, Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia. & leonelmarbio @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4166 - 0561
leonelmarbio@gmail.com
Author
Brescovit, Antonio Domingos
0000-0002-1511-5324
Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, 05503 - 900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. & antonio. brescovit @ butantan. gov. br; https: // orcid. org / 000.002 - 1511 - 5324 & luiz. moura. lfm @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4054 - 4681
antonio.brescovit@butantan.gov.br
Author
Oliveira, Luiz Fernando M.
0000-0002-4054-4681
Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, 05503 - 900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. & antonio. brescovit @ butantan. gov. br; https: // orcid. org / 000.002 - 1511 - 5324 & luiz. moura. lfm @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4054 - 4681 & Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Rua do Matão, 14, 05508 - 090, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. & luiz. moura. lfm @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4054 - 4681
antonio.brescovit@butantan.gov.br
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-09-24
4853
4
581
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4853.4.7
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Macrophyes
O.
Pickard-Cambridge, 1893
Macrophyes
O.
Pickard-Cambridge, 1893:106
, 107,
type
species:
M. attenuata
O. Pickard Cambridge, 1893:107
;
Brescovit 1992: 102
;
Brescovit 1997: 62
.
Diagnosis.
Macrophyes
species resemble those of
Mesilla
by having elongated and thin body; long and thin legs; median apophysis on anterior side of the tegulum and a large retromarginal tooth on distal side of chelicerae, but can been distinguished by the laminar ventral tegular projection; a short embolus basally inserted on the tegulum (
Brescovit 1992: 105
, figs 1−3, 6−11; 1993: 116, figs 1, 2;
Figs 1
C−E). Females are characterized by their thin copulatory ducts, anteriorly curved and with small seminal receptacles on medial region; laminar and convergent lateral borders, forming a median, longer than wide atrium, and copulatory openings in anterior position (
Brescovit 1992: 105
, figs 4, 5; 1993: 116, figs 3−6;
Figs 1F, G
).