Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world
Author
Prószyński, Jerzy
text
Ecologica Montenegrina
2016
2016-05-26
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https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2016.7.1
journal article
10.37828/em.2016.7.1
2336-9744
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Gen.
Myrmapana
Prószyński, 2016
gen. n.
Figures 2I
,
3C
,
4E
Type
species
.
Myrmarachne panamensis
Galiano, 1969
.
Documentation studied
. The comparative diagnostic drawings of 5 species in
Prószyński 2016a
and original literature.
Etymology
. Name combines words
Myrmarachne
and
panamensis
, grammar gender assumed female.
Diagnosis
. Female.
"
Pipes-like"
sclerotized spermathecae are relatively short, with broad anterior dilatation (
Fig. 2I
), resembling Asiatic genera
Emertonius
Peckham & Peckham, 1892
and
Toxeus
Koch C.L., 1846
. Copulatory ducts are not demonstrated in drawings of internal structures of epigyne, by analogy to other genera could have shape of membranous coils. Males have almost circular bulbus, encircled with coils of embolus inside semitranslucent sheath. Spermophor broad with distinct additional loop. Tibial apophysis (RTA) short, straight, slightly inclined (
Fig. 3C
). Male chelicerae long, dorsally flattened and broad, ventrally with row of tiny individual teeth along internal posterior edge, fang is very long. Body is not constricted (
Fig. 4E
).
More diagnostic documentation
- see at: http://www.peckhamia.com/salticidae/q24-
Myrmapana
.html and, especially,
Galiano (1969: 136
, fig. 11-12, 21-23, 34-35, 42, 46-48, 62, 66).
Distribution
. South and Central America.
Composition
. The following species are transferred from genus
Myrmarachne
MacLeay, 1839
:
Myrmapana brasiliensis
(Mello-Leitao, 1922)
comb. n.
,
M. centralis
(Peckham & Peckham, 1892)
comb. n.
,
M. mocamboensis
(Galiano,1974)
comb. n.
,
M. panamensis
(
Galiano, 1969
)
comb. n.
,
M. parallela
(Fabricius, 1794)
comb. n.