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
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Zootaxa
2009
2009-02-04
2002
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journal article
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Cicurina (Cicurella) vespera
Gertsch 1992
(
Figs 118–119
,
134
)
Cicurina vespera
Gertsch 1992: 111
, figs 93–94 (description of female).
—
Jackman 1997: 162
, 171;
Cokendolpher 2004a: 19–20
, 24, 27, 34, 41, 47–48, 53, 57 figs 65–66;
Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3239
, 3241, 3243–3249, 3254;
Reddell & Cokendolpher 2004: 81
.
HOLOTYPE
female:
“
Texas
;
Bexar County
,
Government Canyon Bat Cave
,
5 miles
SW of Helotes
,
August 11 1965
,
J. Reddell
,
J. Fish
”. Examined (
AMNH
).
Description.
Female
holotype
Total length: 2.48; carapace length: 0.81; carapace width: 0.59; opisthosoma length: 1.68. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 4 denticles (2 large, 2 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 2.58; femur: 0.78; patella: 0.28; tibia: 0.60; metatarsus: 0.50; tarsus: 0.43; leg IV: total length: 2.82; femur: 0.78; patella: 0.29; tibia: 0.62; metatarsus: 0.65; tarsus: 0.48. Tarsal claw IV: 0.06. Epigynum: 0.175 (half size). Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit; bursa enlarged; copulatory ducts, reaching slightly over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located medially; 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 ear- shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, externally positioned from the dictynoid pore.
Distribution.
Only reported from the
type
locality: Government Canyon Bat Cave (Bexar County,
Texas
,
Fig. 134
).
Remarks.
Male unknown. The
holotype
identification label was “
Cicurina verpsera
”. This misspelling was corrected in
Gertsch (1992)
. The description of the epigynum is incomplete because the epigynum is heavily damaged. This species is included on the
U.S.
Federal list of endangered species (
Longacre 2000
).