On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae) Author Huber, Bernhard A. 33607F65-19BF-4DC9-94FD-4BB88CED455F Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany. b.huber@leibniz-zfmk.de Author Villarreal, Osvaldo 679C385E-B068-4351-9D2F-97753E534C26 Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, Venezuela. & Museu Nacional / UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. osvaldovillarreal@gmail.com text European Journal of Taxonomy 2020 2020-10-01 718 1 317 journal article 10.5852/ejt.2020.718.1101 4069574 F9E9A91E-488C-4DB1-9361-E788E9AC5BC1 Coryssocnemis tarsocurvipes ( González-Sponga, 2003 ) Figs 141–148 , 1037 Carupania tarsocurvipes González-Sponga, 2003: 92 , figs 1a–j. Coryssocnemis tarsocurvipes – Huber 2009: 68 . Coryssocnemis simla (misidentification) – Astrin et al. 2006: 444 (see Notes below). Notes This species is morphologically almost indistinguishable from C. simla Huber, 2000 from Trinidad . In a previous molecular study ( Astrin et al. 2006 ) the Venezuelan specimens from Cascada del Chorro listed below were tentatively considered conspecific with C. simla even though P-distances were unusually high for within species comparisons. Morphological reanalysis confirms the high similarity but here we follow the conservative approach in Huber (2009) in maintaining C. tarsocurvipes as a valid species until a more detailed species limit analysis is available. The specimens in the paratype vials below include C. tarsocurvipes and C. monagas Huber, 2000 and originate from two neighboring localities: Playa Pui Pui and Playa Medina. It is unclear if both species were found at both localities, or if each species was found at only one of the two places. The juvenile paratypes were separated from the adult specimens because they might belong to any of the two species. Diagnosis Almost identical to C. simla (see Diagnosis in Huber 2000: 248 ); distinguished from C. simla by apparently consistently narrower ventral process on tip of procursus (arrow in Fig. 142 ; compare with Huber 2000 : figs 984, 988); male chelicerae ( Fig. 143 ) and genital bulb ( Fig. 141 ) appear identical. Ventral tube-like pockets of uterus externus (arrows in Fig. 147 ) possibly closer together than in C. simla , but this character is variable within C. simla (just as other characters of the female genitalia in both ‘species’, Figs 145–154 ), requiring study of larger samples. Type material VENEZUELA – Sucre • ♂ holotype , MIZA 105634 ( MAGS 1009 ), near Carupano (“alrededores de Carúpano, rio Chaure, Macarapana”) [ 10.658° N , 63.246° W ], Dec. 1986 ( X.E. Moya ); examined • 8 ♂♂ , 15 ♀♀ paratypes , MIZA 105677 ( MAGS 1436 ), and 19 juv. paratypes , MIZA 105818 (separated from MAGS 1436 ), Playa Pui Pui [ 10.698° N , 62.968° W ] and Playa Medina [ 10.715° N , 63.010° W ] (“ Playa Puipui y Playa Medina ”), at sea level, 7 Jan. 1999 ( A.R. Delgado, M . García, M.A . González S. , M.A. González D. ); examined . Other material examined VENEZUELA – Sucre • 3 ♂♂ , 1 ♀ , ZFMK (Ar 21851), and 2 ♂♂ , 4 ♀♀ , 1 juv. in pure ethanol, ZFMK (Ven02/100-50], Cascada el Chorro ( 10.392° N , 63.633° W ), ~ 160 m a.s.l. , near ground at river , 30 Nov. 2002 ( B.A. Huber ). Distribution Known from several localities in the Venezuelan state Sucre (Fig. 1037).