Systematics of the Neotropical spider genera Jalapyphantes and Selenyphantes and the circumscription of the Pocobletus clade (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
Author
Moreira, Thiago Da Silva
Author
Hormiga, Gustavo
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2021
192
journal volume
0024-4082
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SELENYPHANTES COSTARICENSIS
,
SP. NOV.
(
FIGS 28
,
29
,
33A
,
35A
,
36D
,
37D
)
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.
Type material:
Holotype
one male
COSTA RICA
,
San José
:
Pérez Zeledón
,
San Gerardo de Dota Km
92 on
Interamericana
highway [above the house of Federico Valverde
– 9.566383
,
–83.800893
] (
J Miller
leg;
25 March 1999
;
USNM
). Four female
paratypes
from the same locality and date.
Additional material examined:
COSTA RICA
,
San José
:
Cuericí Biological Station
, [
9.533333
,
–83.716389
]; (
A Picado, B Gamboa
leg;
05 January 1996
; INBIO 45720)
;
Cartago
:
one female
,
Cerro de la Muerte
,
Paramo
[9.566666667, –83.75], (
J Miller
leg;
USNM
)
;
one female
,
Villa Mills
km 70 on
Interamericana
, [9.65, –83.85]; (
J Miller
leg;
22–26 March 1999
;
USNM
)
;
Puntarenas
:
Monteverde
,
Escuela
de los
Amigos
[
10.301433
,
–84.808577
] (
CL Craig, P Klass
leg;
July 1974
:
USNM
)
Etymology:
The epithet refers to
Costa Rica
, the country where the
type
locality of this species was collected.
Diagnosis:
Selenyphantes costaricensis
is the only species of the genus where the males have a radical complex tertiary apophysis (RCt;
Figs 33A
,
35A
). Females of
S. costaricensis
have an epigynum similar to
S. longispinosus
and
S. orizabae
but with the lateral edges converging to the posterior edge of the epigynum slightly convex (
Figs 29E
,
34D
).
Description:
Male (
holotype
TSM 790). Total length 2.57. Prosoma 1.16 long, 1.00 wide. Prosoma height 0.95, fovea height 0.75. Opisthosoma 1.41 long, 0.84 wide, 1.08 high. Clypeus height 0.2. AME 0.04, ALE 0.05, PME 0.06, PLE 0.06. Femur I 2.24 (1.94× prosoma length). Prosoma light yellow, without marks. Opisthosoma light grey with white guanine spots sparkled on the laterals. Legs same colour as the prosoma, without any marks (
Fig. 26A–D
). RCm and RCs both dorsoventrally flattened and divergent, forming a ‘V’-shape structure (
Fig. 28F–H
). RCm slightly curved upwards with distal part with papillae (
Figs 28G
,
33E
). RCs short, pointing downwards. RCs canoed-shape (
Figs 28H
,
32E
).
Female (
paratype
). Total length 2.18. Prosoma 0.95 long, 0.85 wide. Prosoma height 0.76, fovea height 0.66. Opisthosoma 1.23 long, 1.09 wide, 1.52 high. Clypeus height 0.14. AME 0.04, ALE 0.06, PME 0.06, PLE 0.05. Femur I 1.78 (1.88× prosoma length), Metatarsus I 2.09, TmI 0.18. Prosoma light yellow, without marks. Opisthosoma light grey with white guanine spots sparkled laterally. Legs same colour as the prosoma, without any marks (
Fig. 27A–D
). Copulatory opening small, confined to the anterior third of the septum (
Fig. 34D
). Spermathecae positioned medially (whereas their concavity is outward;
Fig. 29E
).
Distribution:
COSTA RICA
:
Cartago
,
Puntarenas
,
San José
.