Myrmecotypus mazaxoides sp. nov. - a new ground-dwelling, carpenter ant-resembling sac spider species from the Bolivian orocline, with indirect evidence for species-specific mimicry (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae)
Author
Perger, Robert
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9930-9638
Coleccion Boliviana de Fauna, La Paz, Bolivia
robertperger@hotmail.com
Author
Duperre, Nadine
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-878X
Zoological Museum, Center of Natural History, Universitaet Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146, Hamburg, Germany
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Zoosystematics and Evolution
2021
2021-05-13
97
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273
280
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.64766
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.64766
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Genus
Myrmecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894
Type species.
Myrmecotypus fuliginosus
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 (by original designation)
Diagnosis.
Cephalic region wide (cephalic index range 64-89), carapace narrowed (carapace index ˂ 60), without thoracic groove but with slight depression instead; PER wider than AER and almost straight to moderately recurved, AME larger than ALE, PME-PME greater than PME-PLE, PLE situated close to lateral margin of cephalic area; abdomen only very slightly petiolated; tibia I ventral spines paired in 2-2, 3-2, 3-3 or 4-4 arrangement; trochanter IV notch usually absent, with only a tiny one, if present (
Perger and Rubio 2021b
).
Figure 1.
Ecoregion distribution of
Myrmecotypus mazaxoides
sp. nov., according to the regionalization by
Navarro and Ferreira (2011)
;
A.
Bolivia;
B.
Sub-Andean area at the Bolivian orocline
1.
Collection locality of
M. mazaxoides
sp. nov., Santa Cruz de la Colina, Santa Cruz department; map produced with QGIS (version 2.14.3, http://www.qgis.org/en/site).