First description of the male of Sphecotypus niger (Perty, 1833), with notes on behavioral and morphological mimicry (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae)
Author
Leister, Matthew
Author
Miller, Kelly
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Zootaxa
2014
3814
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3814.1.10
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Sphecotypus
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895
Sphecotypus
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895
:
Type
species,
Sphecotypus formicarius
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895
=
S. niger
(
Perty, 1833
)
.
Diagnosis.
Sphecotypus
resembles
Myrmecium
Latreille, 1824
, in having deep constrictions on a narrowed carapace, but can be distinguished from this genus and other
Castianeirinae
by having: (1) only one deep constriction of the carapace, which is behind the cephalic region clearly separating the cephalic and thoracic regions; and (2) the prolongation of the sternum in front of the first coxae, producing a “neck” (
Fig. 1
A–C) (
Reiskind 1969
;
Deeleman-Reinhold 2001
). In addition
Sphecotypus
differs from
Myrmecium
by having all coxae evenly spaced, and all emerging from beneath the thoracic region of the carapace (
Fig. 1
A–C), whereas the first two coxae in
Myrmecium
are spaced close to each other and emerge from beneath the cephalic region of the carapace (
O. Pickard-Cambridge 1895
).