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(misidentification)
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, figs 7475 (
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The female of
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has
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been known previously, but numerous males and females newly collected together at various localities (listed below) unambiguously show that the female
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of
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is a misidentified
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF987A49FCC5FC36F987FC68" box="[846,988,953,978]" italics="true" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">M. cornutus</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF987A49FF36FC76FB6DFBA9" bold="true" box="[189,310,1017,1043]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Diagnosis</emphasis>
(amendments; see
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)
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Females are easily distinguished from most known congeners by strongly protruding epigynum longer than wide and posteriorly narrowing (
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); similar only in
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, but epigynum in
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rather triangular and smaller (width: ~
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF987A49FF36F90BFB95F924" bold="true" box="[189,462,1668,1694]" pageId="72" pageNumber="73">Redescription of male</emphasis>
(amendments; see
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Eye measurements (male from El
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): distance PMEPME
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. Carapace mostly pale gray, only ocular area and anterior margins brown to black (
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); clypeus also brown; sternum mostly pale gray, with small brown median mark anteriorly including labium; abdomen pale bluish gray, with dark bluish marks dorsally and laterally, lung plates brown, large dark gray mark at gonopore area and dark bluish median mark behind gonopore. Thoracic furrow shallow but distinct; carapace in some males
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inflated posteriorly, in other males weakly inflated. Long cheliceral apophyses slightly closer together than shown in the original publication (
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: fig. 1044; the apophyses were probably slightly moved by the pressure of the cover slide); distance between tips in three newly studied males:
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. Pedipalps, procursus, and genital bulb as in
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. Prolateral trichobothrium present on tibia 1. Tibia
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(including the three males measured in
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): 5.06.5 (mean 5.7).
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF997A48FF36F8EAFB33F8C5" bold="true" box="[189,360,1893,1919]" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">Figs 212219.</emphasis>
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Simon, 1893
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.
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; male from Mérida, Mucuy, female with egg sac from Mérida, Escaguey.
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.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF997A48FBBDF806FEB2F818" box="[1078,1257,1928,1954]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">M. cordiformis</emphasis>
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(González- Sponga, 2009); male from Mérida, forest near La Carbonera.
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.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF997A48FC7CF823FE32F87F" box="[1015,1129,1964,1989]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">M. mucuy</emphasis>
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; male and female from Mérida, Mucuy.
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.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF997A48FD06F85FF8AEF853" box="[653,757,1999,2025]" italics="true" pageId="73" pageNumber="74">M. tabay</emphasis>
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; male and female from Mérida, El Valle.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF9A7A4BFF36FE1FFB93FE10" bold="true" box="[189,456,400,426]" pageId="74" pageNumber="75">Description of female</emphasis>
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Females in general similar to males (
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) but dark mark on sternum larger, covering anterior half of sternum. Dark and light rings on legs more distinct. Epigynum (
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) strongly protruding, longer than wide and posteriorly narrowing. Internal genitalia (
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,
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) with strong anterior arc, pair of large pore plates and V-shaped sclerite on ventral wall of uterus externus. Tibia
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Known from several neighboring localities in the Venezuelan state
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(Fig. 1042). All localities are at about
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF9A7A4BFF36F825FB3DF87E" bold="true" box="[189,358,1962,1988]" pageId="74" pageNumber="75">Figs 220221.</emphasis>
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; from Mérida, El Valle (ZFMK Ar 21872); left male pedipalp, prolateral and retrolateral views. Scale line: 0.5 mm.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF9B7A4AFF36F8ECFB32F8C7" bold="true" box="[189,361,1891,1917]" pageId="75" pageNumber="76">Figs 222228.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF9B7A4AFEFFF8EBF8DDF8C7" box="[372,646,1892,1918]" italics="true" pageId="75" pageNumber="76">Mecolaesthus cornutus</emphasis>
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; from Mérida, El Valle (ZFMK Ar 21872).
<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF9B7A4AFAB7F8ECFAB2F81B" bold="true" pageId="75" pageNumber="76">222 224</emphasis>
. Left palpal tarsus and procursus, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views.
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. Left genital bulb, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views.
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. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. Scale lines: 0.5 mm.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF9C7A4DFF36FE86FB25FE98" bold="true" box="[189,382,264,291]" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">Natural history</emphasis>
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At Escaguey, the spiders were found in small webs in hollow logs on the ground. In Mucuy, this species shared the habitat with several other species of
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, but at different altitudes and in slightly different microhabitats:
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was found at lower altitude (~
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a.s.l.) in small cavities in the ground;
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was found at the same altitude but in hollow logs;
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was found at higher altitude (~
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a.sl.) and mostly in bromeliads ~
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above the ground;
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF9C7A4DFB12FE47FF7FFE5B" box="[1177,1316,455,481]" italics="true" pageId="76" pageNumber="77">M. longipes</emphasis>
Huber
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occupied large sheltered spaces at ~
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a.s.l.; and
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was found at all altitudes (~
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a.s.l.) but in a very different microhabitat (undersides of live leaves). Two egg sacs contained approximately 20
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.
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