Six new species and new records of the spider genus Chrosiothes from Brazil with the description of the female of Chrosiothes venturosus Marques & Buckup, 1997 (Araneae, Theridiidae, Spintharinae)
Author
Rodrigues, Everton Nei Lopes
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-10-05
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219
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journal article
31895
10.11646/zootaxa.4329.3.2
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Chrosiothes
una
new species
Fig. 15
,
27
,
30
Type
material
.
Holotype
.
Brazil
:
Bahia
,
Una
,
Reserva Biológica de Una
,
15°10’S
;
39°03’W
,
13.IV.1998
,
A.D. Brescovit
et al.
leg., 1F (
IBSP 18247
).
Etymology
. The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
Diagnosis
. Females are similar to those of
C. jenningsi
Piel, 1995
(see
Piel 1995
, fig. 10), by the presence of oval depression (
Fig. 15
), but differ from this and the all other species of the genus by the presence of the reduced medium atrium (
Fig. 15
). Males remain unknown.
Description
.
Female
holotype
(from Reserva Biológica de Una, IBSP 18247). Total length 2.73. Carapace length 1.04, width 0.93. Clypeus height 0.14. Sternum length 0.60, width 0.52. Abdomen length 2.18, width 2.10. Leg formula IV/I/II/III; segment length (I/II/III/IV): femora 1.38/1.00/0.77/1.40; patellae+tibiae 1.53/0.98/0.75/ 1.44; metatarsi+tarsi 2.01/1.40/1.09/2.24; total 4.93/3.40/2.62/5.10. Carapace semicircular, dark-brown, with a narrow black border, eye region black and a black band as wide as eye region covering length of carapace (
Fig. 27
). Chelicerae dark brown. Sternum brown, with darkened edges. ALE and PLE smaller than the other eyes; PME bigger than the other eyes. Legs brown. Abdomen subcircular, olive-brown with yellow transverse bands posteriorly (
Fig. 27
). Spinnerets orange-brown. Epigynum with a slightly sclerotized plate, wider than long (
Fig. 15
); ventrally with depression (
Fig. 15
) with presence of the reduced medium atrium (
Fig. 15
).
Male. Unknown.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality.