Short-legged daddy-long-leg spiders in North America: the genera Pholcophora and Tolteca (Araneae, Pholcidae)
Author
Huber, Bernhard A.
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Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, LIB, Bonn, Germany. Laboratory of Arachnology (LATLAX), Institute of Biology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Tlaxcala, San Miguel Contla, Santa Cruz Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, México. Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Floriano, Piauí, Brazil.
b.huber@leibniz-lib.de
Author
Meng, Guanliang
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Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, LIB, Bonn, Germany. Laboratory of Arachnology (LATLAX), Institute of Biology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Tlaxcala, San Miguel Contla, Santa Cruz Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, México. Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Campus Amílcar Ferreira Sobral, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Floriano, Piauí, Brazil.
G.Meng@leibniz-lib.de
Author
Valdez-Mondragón, Alejandro
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lat_mactans@yahoo.com.mx
Author
Král, Jiří
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spider@natur.cuni.cz
Author
Ávila Herrera, Ivalú M.
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ivalu.a@gmail.com
Author
Carvalho, Leonardo S.
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carvalho@ufpi.edu.br
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2023
2023-07-17
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journal article
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10.5852/ejt.2023.880.2173
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Pholcophora
? “Cu12-325”
Figs
32
,
33N
S323 Gen.
Cu12-325
Cu12-325 –
Eberle
et al.
2018
(molecular data). —
Huber
et al.
2018: 55
.
Remarks
The
two adult
females available of this species resemble other large representatives of the genus (
Fig. 32A–B
); body length 2.4; tibia 1 length 1.28, 1.36. Epigynum (
Fig. 32C–D
) consisting of trapezoidal anterior plate and short but wide posterior plate; internal genitalia (
Fig. 32E–F
) with distinctive median tube, curled up and ~600 µm long (reminding of the putatively distantly related
Gertschiola neuquena
Huber, 2000
; see
Huber 2000
: fig. 354).
Our molecular data suggest that the present species is more closely related with other Caribbean taxa (
Pholcophora bahama
, the undescribed
Pholcophora
? “
Car
544”, and the genus
Papiamenta
) than with true
Pholcophora
.
Material examined
CUBA
–
Santiago de Cuba
•
2 ♀♀
, in pure ethanol;
Siboney
,
Cueva
de los Majases
;
19.9623° N
,
75.7171° W
; ~
90 m
a.s.l.
;
Apr. 2012
;
F. Cala Riquelme
leg.;
ZFMK
Cu
12-325
.