of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution
Author
Paquin, Pierre
Cave and Endangered Invertebrate Research Laboratory, SWCA Environmental Consultants, 4407 Monterey Oaks Boulevard, Building 1, Suite 110, Austin, Texas, 78749, USA. E-mail: ppaquin @ swca. com & This is publication no. 15 of the Karst Biosciences and Environmental Geophysics Research Laboratories, SWCA Environmental Consultants
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Central Park West at 79 Street, New York, New York, 10024 USA. E-mail: nduperre @ amnh. org
text
Zootaxa
2009
2009-02-04
2002
1
67
journal article
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Cicurina (Cicurella) platypus
Cokendolpher 2004
(
Figs 76–77
,
134
)
Cicurina platypus
Cokendolpher 2004a: 18–20
, 22, 24, 26–27, 34, 41,
51–
52, 54 (description of female).
—
Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3243–3245
, 3247, 3253–3254;
Reddell & Cokendolpher 2004: 80–81
.
HOLOTYPE
female:
“
Texas
:
Bexar County
: Platypus Pit.
20 March 1995
.
J. Reddell
,
M. Reyes
”. Examined (
AMNH
).
Additional material examined.
UNITED STATES
:
Bexar County
: MARS
Pit
(Camp Bullis),
29.x.2001
(molted on the
20.v.2002
,
25.xi.2002
,
15.viii.2003
,
04.i.2004
, matured on
03.iv.2005
),
1♀
,
J. Krejca
,
P. Sprouse
(
TMM
)
.
Description.
Female
holotype
Total length: 5.67; carapace length: 2.70; carapace width: 1.80; opisthosoma length: 2.97. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (1 large, 2 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 7 denticles (4 large, 3 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 9.45; femur: 2.40; patella: 0.85; tibia: 2.45; metatarsus: 2.30; tarsus: 1.45; leg IV: total length: 10.65; femur: 2.65; patella: 0.85; tibia: 2.65; metatarsus: 3.05; tarsus: 1.70. Tarsal claw IV: 0.20. Epigynum: 0.462. Epigynal ventral plate with long transverse slit, bearing medial, deep, inverted V-shaped indentation; atrium rectangular, almost intruded by rounded dorsal plate, atrial aperture small; bursa enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts scarcely separated at midpoint, reaching top of primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located apically; primary pores not visible; stalk short, straight, obliquely directed, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe hat-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, externally positioned from dictynoid pore; fertilization duct internally attached to the primary lobe base.
Distribution
. Known only from two caves in Bexar County (
Texas
): MARS Pit and Platypus Pit (
type
locality) (
Fig. 134
).
Remarks.
Male unknown. According to
Cokendolpher (2004a: 52)
,
C. bullis
and
C. platypus
are found in sympatry in Platypus Pit.