Neostasina gen. nov., a new genus of huntsman spiders from the Neotropical region (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparianthinae)
Author
Rheims, Cristina Anne
Author
Alayón, Giraldo
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Zootaxa
2016
2016-02-12
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4079.3.1
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Neostasina jamaicana
sp. nov.
Figs 79−81
, Map 5
Type
material:
Holotype
:
♀
,
Jamaica
,
Saint
James Parish
,
Hermitage Reservoir
[
18°51’N
,
76°46’W
],
24 July 1960
,
P. & C. Vaurie
leg. (
AMNH
).
Paratypes
:
JAMAICA
:
2♀
,
5 juveniles
, same locality as holotype,
30 October 1957
,
A.M. Chickering
leg. (
MCZ
69718)
;
1♀
,
5 juveniles
,
Hanover Parish
, trail to
Dolphin Head
[
18°22’N
,
78°10’W
],
24 June 1954
,
A.M. Chickering
leg. (
MCZ
69717)
; 1♀, trail to upper cave (first stop) [18°20’N, 77°38’W],
11 October 2013
, Team CarBio leg. (MNHN).
Etymology.
The specific name is an adjective derived from the
type
locality,
Jamaica
.
FIGURES 79−81.
Neostasina jamaicana
sp. nov.
, female (79 epigyne, 80 vulva; 81 schematic course of internal duct system). ag = anterior groove of epigyne; ar = anterior rim; CD = copulatory duct; FD = fertilization duct; GP = glandular projection; mpt = median posterior protrusion. Scale line: 1 mm.
Diagnosis.
Females of
N. jamaicana
sp. nov.
resemble those of
N. lucea
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 96
) in the median septum with posterior median protrusion (
Fig. 79
). They are distinguished from this species by the anterior rim straight and by the posterior median protrusion rounded (
Fig. 79
). Males are unknown.
Description. Female (AMNH,
holotype
):
Prosoma orange brown with thin brown lines extending posteriorly from PME, along lateral margins of the cephalic region and, concentrically, from fovea on thoracic region. Chelicerae orange brown. Legs and pedipalps orange. Leg femora and tibiae ventrally mottled with brown spots. Sternum orange with brown margins. Endites orange, distally cream colored. Labium brown, distally cream colored. Opisthosoma cream colored, densely covered with gray marks. Total length 9.9. Prosoma: 4.1 long, 3.6 wide. Opisthosoma: 5.7 long, 3.7 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.27, 0.25, 0.15, 0.20; interdistances: 0.22, 0.15, 0.42, 0.38, 0.18, 0.09. Legs (2143): I: 12.9 (3.8, 2.0, 3.4, 2.9, 0.8); II: 13.2 (4.0, 2.1, 3.3, 3.0, 0.8); III: 10.4 (3.3, 1.8, 2.2, 2.4, 0.7); IV: 12.3 (3.7, 1.5, 2.9, 3.3, 0.9). Epigyne: epigynal field roughly rectangular, slightly longer than wide with strongly recurved anterior groove; anterior rim entire; median septum two times wider than long (
Fig. 79
). Vulva: glandular projections short, round with large base; spermathecae packed within large sclerotized structure with one large oblong part opening from copulatory ducts and one cylindrical part opening to fertilization ducts; internal ducts indistinguishable (
Figs 80−81
).
Male:
unknown.
Variation.
Females (n = 4): total length 8.3−10.5; prosoma length 4.1−4.7; femur I length 3.7−4.3.
Distribution.
Known from northwestern
Jamaica
, parishes of
Saint James
and
Hanover
(Map 5).
Remarks.
See remarks for
N. guanaboa
sp. nov.