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,
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Easily distinguished from known congeners (including the otherwise very similar
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF867A57FB13F8E9FF78F8C5" box="[1176,1315,1893,1919]" italics="true" pageId="86" pageNumber="87">M. parchita</emphasis>
Huber
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) by armature of male chelicerae (
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; pair of pointed apophyses proximally arising from round humps and pair of blunt processes more distally) and by epigynum (
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; only median area sclerotized, widening posteriorly,
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divided into two median sclerites as in
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Huber
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).
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From most congeners (except
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF877A56FD95FE85F8FDFE99" box="[542,678,265,291]" italics="true" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">M. parchita</emphasis>
Huber
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) also by two dark rings on leg femora (instead of only one or none).
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF877A56FF36FEE1FB1FFE32" bold="true" box="[189,324,366,392]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Etymology</emphasis>
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The species name refers to
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF877A56FD88FE13F80AFE0C" box="[515,593,412,438]" italics="true" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">chicha</emphasis>
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, a Latin American beverage. In
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it is made of boiled rice, milk, and sugar, has the consistency of eggnog, and contains no alcohol as it is
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fermented; noun in apposition.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF877A56FF36F809FB33F81A" bold="true" box="[189,360,1926,1952]" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">Figs 277282.</emphasis>
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Simon, 1893
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; live specimens.
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.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF877A56FC73F808FE34F81A" box="[1016,1135,1926,1952]" italics="true" pageId="87" pageNumber="88">M. chicha</emphasis>
Huber
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; male, female, and juvenile from Mérida, between Bailadores and Pregonero.
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.
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Huber
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; male, female, and juvenile from Mérida, between Tovar and Guaraque.
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MEASUREMENTS. Total body length 2.8, carapace width 1.2. Distance PMEPME
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COLOR (in ethanol). Carapace pale gray, lateral margins and ocular area darker brown, indistinct posterior internal triangular dark mark (in live specimens with large greenish central mark;
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); clypeus dark brown; sternum whitish; legs ochre-yellow, with distinct dark rings on femora (centrally and subdistally) and tibiae (subproximally and subdistally); abdomen pale greenish-gray, dorsally and laterally with dark bluish marks, ventrally with brown mark in gonopore area, light brown book lung covers, and large bluish median marks in front and behind gonopore; without dark mark above pedicel.
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BODY. Habitus as in
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. Ocular area distinctly raised. Carapace anteriorly with distinct but shallow thoracic groove;
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visibly inflated. Clypeus unmodified. Sternum wider than long (0.76/0.58). Abdomen oval, pointed at spinnerets.
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CHELICERAE. As in
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, with pair of pointed apophyses proximally arising from round humps and pair of blunt processes more distally.
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PALPS. In general similar to
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(cf.
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: figs
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) and
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); largely indistinguishable from
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; coxa with retrolateral apophysis, trochanter with small rounded ventral process, femur proximally with large retrolateral process, distally with short obtuse ventral process (arrow in
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), retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia in very distal position; procursus (
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) at basis with bifid dorsal process, with distinct retrolateral process, simple tip partly membranous; genital bulb complex (
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), distally mostly membranous/whitish but with distinctive distal sclerites (largely identical to
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Huber
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; similar
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF887A59FBF6F9A4FF43F9FE" box="[1149,1304,1578,1604]" italics="true" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">M. peckorum</emphasis>
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).
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<paragraph id="8BFE36BBFF887A59FF36F9E1FF38F916" blockId="88.[189,1398,1645,1708]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">LEGS. Without spines and curved hairs; few vertical hairs; retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia 1 at 5%; prolateral trichobothrium present on all leg tibiae; tarsus 1 with ~40 pseudosegments, mostly distinct.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF887A59FF61F95AFB71F955" bold="true" box="[234,298,1749,1775]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Male</emphasis>
(variation)
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Tibia
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six males (incl.
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): 6.16.3 (mean 6.2); posterior internal mark on carapace sometimes absent.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF887A59FF61F8EEFB1EF8C1" bold="true" box="[234,325,1889,1915]" pageId="88" pageNumber="89">Female</emphasis>
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In general similar to male (
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). Tibia
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seven females: 4.45.1 (mean 4.7). Epigynum (
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) slightly protruding, only median area sclerotized, laterally whitish, sclerotized area widening posteriorly; posterior plate short and wide. Internal genitalia (
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,
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) with Y-shaped sclerite connected
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF897A58FF36F8B0FB33F8E3" bold="true" box="[189,360,1855,1881]" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">Figs 283290.</emphasis>
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Huber
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; from Mérida, between Bailadores and Pregonero (type locality; ZFMK Ar 2189293).
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. Left palpal tarsus and procursus, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views (arrow: ventral femur apophysis).
<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF897A58FCA2F809F9CBF81A" bold="true" box="[809,912,1926,1952]" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">286288</emphasis>
. Left genital bulb, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views.
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. Male chelicerae, frontal view.
<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF897A58FCB2F826F93EF879" bold="true" box="[825,869,1961,1987]" pageId="89" pageNumber="90">290</emphasis>
. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. Scale lines: 0.3 mm.
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<paragraph id="8BFE36BBFF8A7A5BFF36FE86F937FEFD" blockId="90.[189,1398,265,327]" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">to median posterior sclerite, pore plates tilted into almost vertical position and converging dorsally and anteriorly; with complex system of anterior folds and arcs.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF8A7A5BFF36FEE1FB0DFE32" bold="true" box="[189,342,366,392]" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">Distribution</emphasis>
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Known from
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locality only, in
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,
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(Fig. 1042).
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FF8A7A5BFF36FE6FFB25FE40" bold="true" box="[189,382,480,506]" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">Natural history</emphasis>
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Most adult specimens were found close to the ground, by beating overhanging mosses growing on the rocks or overhanging masses of leaf litter near a small forest stream. They lived in small, relatively flat sheet webs with a diameter of ~
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. Juveniles were much lighter than adults (
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) and were mostly found higher in the vegetation, on trunks of tree ferns or even on the undersides of green leaves.
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