Descriptions of twelve new species of ochyroceratids (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from mainland Ecuador
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
text
Zootaxa
2015
3956
4
451
475
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.1
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1175-5326
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Ochyrocera otonga
new species
Figs 42–44
, map 1.
Type
material.
Male
holotype
from
Ecuador
, Cotopaxi Province,
Otonga
Biological Reserve (
00.42261°S
79.5107°W
),
1888m
, pitfall,
03–16 August 2014
, N. Dupérré, E. Tapia (
QCAZ
).
Other material examined.
None.
Etymology.
The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality,
Otonga
Biological Reserve.
Diagnosis.
Males are distinguished from all
Ochyrocera
by their medially twisted embolus (
Fig. 43
).
Description
(damaged from exposition to pitfall preservation chemical):
Male
:
Total length: 1.7; carapace length: 0.7; carapace width: 0.6. PROSOMA: Carapace pyriform, narrowing abruptly anteriorly; shiny, light yellow with purple median band and laterals bands; pars cephalica slightly elevated; fovea not visible. Sternum whitish; as long as wide; with extremely long setae. Endites whitish; labium whitish; notch. Clypeus sloping with purple band medially; high (
4x
PME). Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with three widely spaced teeth, followed by a series of five teeth attached to the lamina; retromargin without denticles (
Fig. 44
). EYES: Six eyes of about equal size; PME rounded, contiguous; PME-ALE slightly separated; ALE rounded contiguous with PLE; PLE rounded. OPISTHOSOMA: Oval (damaged). LEGS: All legs missing. GENITALIA: Palpal femur long, purple apically (
Fig. 43
); palpal patella purple; palpal tibia not narrow basally; with two dorsal, one retrolateral trichobothria (
Figs 42, 43
). Cymbium conical with squared extension prolaterally (
Fig. 43
); retrolateral apophysis elongated bearing cuspule at its apical end (
Fig. 42
). Bulb oval (
Fig. 42
). Embolus elongated, projecting forward, widest basally, twisted medially, black and pointed apically (
Fig. 42
); sperm duct narrowing 1/2 from beginning to the tip of embolus without loop (
Figs 42, 43
).
Distribution.
Ecuador
: Cotopaxi Province.
Natural history.
Collected by pitfall at an altitude of
1888m
.