Taxonomic revision of the spider genera Agyneta and Tennesseellum (Araneae, Linyphiidae) of North America north of Mexico with a study of the embolic division within Micronetinae sensu Saaristo & Tanasevitch 1996
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
text
Zootaxa
2013
3674
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3674.1.1
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Agyneta tuberculata
new species
Figs 368–375
, map 21
Type
material:
Male
holotype
from Arizona, Cochise county, Portal,
Sept. 10, 1981
, in house, W.J. Gertsch collector (
AMNH
).
EXAMINED
.
Etymology:
The specific name is an adjective in apposition taken from the Latin in reference to the heavily tuberculate cymbium.
Diagnosis:
Males are diagnosed from all
Agyneta
species by their tricorn dorsal cymbial tubercle and their large ventral tubercle with protuberance (
Fig. 370
, arrow). Females are diagnosed from all
Agyneta
by their narrow, triangular epigynal slits (
Fig. 373
). For differentiation from
A. crista
see diagnosis of the latter.
Description:
Male
:
Total length 2.02; carapace length 0.87, width 0.72.
CEPHALOTHORAX: Carapace orange, shiny, finely reticulate; lightly suffused with gray along margin, radiating lines; trident mark sometimes present. Sternum suffused with dark gray. Clypeus height 2. Chelicerae orange, apical part lighter, excavated; ~15 seta-tipped tubercles; promargin three denticles, retromargin two tiny denticles. Cheliceral stridulatory organ visible ~58 striae well spaced, getting closer basally. ABDOMEN: Uniformly light to dark gray. LEGS: Orange, distal half of femur slightly darker; leg I total length: 4.11; leg III total length: 2.74; Tm I: 0.15, Tm IV: absent. GENITALIA: Palpal retrolateral tibial apophysis long, tip slightly rugose; dorsal tibial apophysis wide, smooth; two retrolateral trichobothria and one dorsal (
Fig. 368
). Cymbium triangular; glabrous depression present (
Fig. 368
); dorsal cymbial tubercle with two rounded tip, carinated and smooth; ventral tubercle long, smooth and rounded, with extra process basally (
Figs 369, 370
); prolateral notch medium (
Fig. 369
). Paracymbium apical pocket medium, anterior pocket long making a large cover, posterior pocket absent (
Fig. 368
). Embolus tip wide and pointed, with wide and dentate, prong; ventrally rugose; Fickert’s gland absent; ventral lamella transparent, spiny; thumb reaching over embolus proper (
Fig. 371
). Embolus proper set apically, dorsal part slightly larger (
Fig. 371
). Anterior terminal apophysis narrow with short protrusions; posterior terminal apophysis narrow, with one small point midway and one small spur basally (
Fig. 372
arrow); lamella characteristica wide, well sclerotized with numerous short spines, one large prong medially and rounded tip (
Fig. 372
).
Female
:
Total length 1.97; carapace length 0.92, width 0.60.
CEPHALOTHORAX: Coloration as male. Chelicerae orange; promargin five teeth, retromargin three denticles. Cheliceral stridulatory organ visible ~50 striae, narrowly spaced throughout. ABDOMEN: Same as male. LEGS: Same as male; palpal segment slightly suffused with gray, tarsal claw absent; leg I total length: 3.13; leg III total length: 2.20; Tm I: 0.20, Tm IV absent. GENITALIA: Epigynum with wide proximal part of scape, almost rectangular; epigynal slits narrow and triangular; pit hook depression deep (
Fig. 373
); lateral lobes elongated; stretcher and pit medium (
Fig. 374
). Median part of scape long and narrower apically; genital pores situated at base of lateral lobes pockets (
Fig. 375
). Internal genitalia with large and sinuous receptacula (
Figs 374, 375
).
Other material examined:
USA
:
Arizona
:
Catalina
Mountains, Molino Basin,
27.xi.1976
, 13, V. Roth, Schroepfer (
AMNH
); Portal,
10.x.1981
, in house, 13, W. Gertsch (
AMNH
).
Nebraska
: Hasley, 12–19.
viii.1957, 13
, H. Hemzlik (
AMNH
).
New
Mexico
: T65 R10E S36,
01
.vii.1972, 13, Riechert (
AMNH
); West of Silver City,
08.ix.1941
, 1Ƥ, W. Ivie (
AMNH
).
Texas
: Edinburg,
10.i.1939
, 13, S. Mulaik (
AMNH
); Mission, 1Ƥ, S. Mulaik (
AMNH
); New Deal,
21.vii.1972
, 13, J. Rowland (
AMNH
); Raven Ranch,
vi.1941, 1
Ƥ, S. Mulaik (
AMNH
); Rio Grande City,
29.iv.1939
, 13, S. Mulaik (
AMNH
); no specific locality,
i–iii.1936, 2
Ƥ, L. Davis (
AMNH
).
Utah
: Bluff,
10.v.1933
, 132Ƥ (
AMNH
); Little Castle Valley,
30.x.1931
, 43, W. Ivie (
AMNH
).
Distribution:
Southwest
USA
, north to Nebraska.