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 jurubatiba
sp. n.
(
Figs 5–6
,
9
)
Type
material.
Holotype
male, Parque Nacional da Restinga de
Jurubatiba
,
22°17’08”S
,
41°41’56”W
, Macaé, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
,
25–30 March 2010
, Atlantic Rainforest, restinga, pitfall trap, elevation
30 m
, R. Baptista, V. Brandão, D. Castro, M. da Costa, G. Cardoso, A. Pinto, A. Pérez, G. Marquez (
MNRJ
06819).
Paratype
:
1 female
, Parque Nacional da Restinga de
Jurubatiba
,
22°17’08”S
,
41°41’56”W
, Macaé, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
,
17 March 2011
, Atlantic Rainforest, restinga, litter, elevation
30 m
, R. Baptista (
MNRJ
06816).
Other material examined.
BRAZIL
:
Rio de Janeiro
:
Macaé
:
1 male
,
TECAB
,
22°17’08”S
,
41°43’54”W
,
21 February 2014
, Atlantic Rainforest, litter, elevation
30 m
, O. Villareal (
MNRJ
06815);
10 males
,
3 females
and
6 juveniles
, same data (
MNRJ
06817);
1 male
, Parque Nacional da Restinga de
Jurubatiba
, restinga, litter,
19 March 2011
, R. Baptista (
UFRJ
MAC 0679);
1 male
and
2 females
, same data except pitfall,
25–30 March 2010
(
UFRJ
MAC 0614);
1 male
and
1 female
,
TECAB
,
22°17’08”S
,
41°43’54”W
,
27 September 2012
, Atlantic Rainforest, litter, elevation
30 m
, D. Pedroso, G. Miranda (
UFRJ
MAC 1729);
1 male
,
1 female
and
1 juvenile
, same data except
27 February 2013
, D. Pedroso (
UFRJ
MAC 3381).
Etymology
. The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
Diagnosis
. The male pedipalp resembles the general conformation of
F. p el t a
Platnick, 1975
,
F. pulchra
and
F. maldonado
Platnick, Grismado & Ramírez, 1999
by the laminar expansion of the embolus; however, in these species the expansion is prolateral, and the embolus has a basal ledge (see
Platnick 1975
, figs 86, 87;
Platnick
et al
. 1999
, figs 19–21;
Piacentini
et al
. 2013
, figs 6c–e;).
F. jurubatiba
sp. n.
is distinguished by having the laminar extension on the retrolateral side of the embolus, and by lacking the basal ledge (
Figs 5
h–j, 6b–c). The female internal genitalia have large, rounded spermathecae as in
F. p e l t a
, but can be distinguished by having more inflated spermathecae which touch each other medially (
Fig. 6
a).
Description
.
Male
(
holotype
). Total length 1.87. Carapace 0.93 long, 0.69 wide. Femur I 0.79 long, 0.19 high. Posterior median eyes separated by slightly more than their diameter (
Fig. 5
e). Paturon with inconspicuous lateral ridge. Sclerotized portions of body orange brown (
Fig. 5
e–g); abdominal scutum covering two-thirds of dorsum. Unsclerotized portion of abdomen with a dorsal, purplish brown pattern on a yellow background, forming a yellow ring close to the pedicel (
Fig. 5
e–g). Pedipalpal femur not thickened, tibia globose and almost the same size as the palpal bulb; bulb relatively small, half the length of the cymbium; embolus base rounded, without any ledge, distal half flattened with a retrolateral translucent extension with an irregularly shaped, slightly more sclerotized area (
Figs 5
h–j, 6b–c).
FIGURE 7.
Fernandezina tijuca
Ramírez & Grismado, 1996
, habitus and details of preserved specimens:
a–d
, female (MNRJ 06818);
e–j
, male (MNRJ 06818);
a
,
e
, dorsal views;
b
,
f
, lateral views;
c
,
g
, ventral views;
d
, abdominal ventral scutum;
h–j
, male left pedipalp;
h
, prolateral view;
i
, ventral view;
j
, retrolateral view.
Female
(
paratype
). Total length 2.51. Carapace 1.12 long, 0.80 wide. Femur I 0.89 long, 0.22 high. Leg I with sparse prolateral scopula on tibia, metatarsus and tarsus (
Fig. 9
a, b). Eyes and chelicerae as in male. Sclerotized portions of body orange brown (
Fig. 5
a–c); abdominal scutum orange brown with lateroventral notches where two oblique, elongated ventral plates (postepigastric scutes) fit, converging posteriorly toward middle of venter, but not touching (
Fig. 5
d). Unsclerotized portion of abdomen as in male (
Fig. 5
a–c). Tarsus I without tenent setae (
Fig. 9
a– c), tarsi II–IV with weak claw tufts, those of leg IV composed of only two pseudotenent setae on each side (
Fig. 9
d–g). Internal genitalia with two large, rounded spermathecae, touching each other medially, bearing conspicuous paired poreplates close to each other (
Fig. 6
a).
Distribution
. Known only from the
type
locality.