New species and records of Otiothopinae from the Southern Atlantic Rainforest, with notes on the claw tufts in Fernandezina Birabén (Araneae: Palpimanidae)
Author
Castro, Diogo
Author
Baptista, Renner
Author
Grismado, Cristian
Author
Ramírez, Martín
text
Zootaxa
2015
4012
3
465
478
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.3
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1175-5326
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Fernandezina tijuca
Ramírez & Grismado, 1996
(
Figs 7–8
)
Fernandezina tijuca
Ramírez & Grismado, 1996
: 118
, figs 1–2 (male
holotype
from Parque Nacional da
Tijuca
, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
, deposited in Museo de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, not examined).
Other material examined
.
BRAZIL
:
Rio de Janeiro
:
Casimiro de Abreu
:
1 male
, BR-101,
22°29’22”S
,
42°13’17”W
,
5–14 October 2010
, Atlantic Rainforest fragment, pitfall trap, D. Castro, P. Castanheira (
UFRJ
BRD
0490);
1 male
, same data except
4–13 October 2010
(
UFRJ
BRD
0515).
Macaé
:
1 male
, Parque Nacional Municipal Fazenda
Atalaia
,
22°18’32”S
,
42°00’07”W
,
27 September–4 October 2009
, Atlantic Rainforest, pitfall trap, V. Brandão, M. da Costa, G. Cardoso, A. Pérez, G. Marquez (
UFRJ
MAC 2076);
1 male
,
1 female
and
1 juvenile
,
TECAB
,
22°17’20”S
,
41°44’04”W
,
25–30 March 2010
, Atlantic Rainforest fragment, pitfall trap, elevation
30 m
, R. Baptista (
MNRJ
06818);
2 males
and
1 female
, same data exept
20 November 2014
, O. Villareal (
UFRJ
MAC 8672).
Rio de Janeiro
:
1 male
, Parque Estadual da Pedra Branca,
22°56’12.8”S
,
43°26’29.1”W
, Atlantic Rainforest, litter,
22 November 2013
, elevation
133 m
, P. Castanheira (
UFRJ
PBR 2139);
1 female
and
2 juveniles
, same data except
14–22 September 2013
, pitfall trap, R. Baptista, P. Castanheira (
UFRJ
PBR 2816);
1 female
, same data except Camorim,
22°56’12.8”S
,
43°26’29.1”W
, litter,
31 March 2014
, elevation
160 m
, R. Baptista (
UFRJ
PBR 5767).
Diagnosis
. The female is similar to
F
.
jurubatiba
by the habitus, size and by the shape of the spermathecae, which are globose and contiguous, but can be distinguished by the more expanded anterior portion of the spermathecae (
Fig. 8
a).
FIGURE 8.
Fernandezina tijuca
Ramírez & Grismado, 1996
, copulatory organs:
a
, female (MNRJ 06818), KOH digested internal genitalia, dorsal view (MR = median receptacula, PP = poreplates);
b–c
, male (MNRJ 06818);
b
, left pedipalp, retrolateral view;
c
, same, ventral view.
FIGURE 9.
Fernandezina jurubatiba
sp. n.
, scanning electron micrographs of female (MNRJ 06819) left legs I (
a–c
) and IV (
d–f
):
a
, prolateral view;
b
, tibia, metatarsus and tarsus, prolateral view;
c
, claw I, prolateral view;
d
, claws on tarsus IV, prolateral view;
e
, claws on tarsus IV, apical view;
f
, tenent setae on tarsus IV, apical view;
g
, same, retrolateral view.
Description
.
Male.
See
Ramírez and Grismado (1996)
. Aditional notes: the male pedipalp of the Macaé specimens differs from the
type
material by the position of the embolus in a more retrolateral position, forming a wider angle with the cymbium, and by the shape of the tibia, which is slightly larger relative to the bulb (
Figs 7
h–j, 8b–c). While the copulatory bulb may be rotated due to a partial expansion of the basal hematodocha, we interpret the size of the tibia as intraspecific variability.
Female
(Macaé, MNRJ 06818). Total length 3.00. Carapace 1.37 long, 0.99 wide. Femur I 1.37 long, 0.33 high. Eyes and chelicerae as in male. Sclerotized portions of body as in male (
Fig. 7
a–c); abdominal scutum orange, with lateroventral notches where two oblique, elongated ventral plates (postepigastric scutes) fit, converging posteriorly toward middle of venter, but not touching (
Fig. 7
d). Unsclerotized portion of abdomen as in male (
Fig. 7
a–c). Internal genitalia composed of two large oval spermathecae, touching each other medially, with the anterior portion expanded, bearing conspicuous paired poreplates close to each other (
Fig. 8
a).
Distribution
.
Brazil
, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, and known from Rio de Janeiro, Casimiro de Abreu and Macaé.