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; from Falcón, Curimagua (type locality; ZFMK Ar 2190405).
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. 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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. Male chelicerae, frontal and lateral views.
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. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. Scale lines: 0.3 mm.
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Distinguished from most congeners [except
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(
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and
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFBA7A6BFB31FEB8FF2CFEEA" box="[1210,1399,310,336]" italics="true" pageId="106" pageNumber="107">M. tuberculosus</emphasis>
(
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] by armature of male chelicerae (
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,
<figureCitation id="137A2A3EFFBA7A6BFBC3FED7FE2CFEC8" box="[1096,1143,344,370]" captionStart="Figs 367372" captionStartId="110.[188,240,1821,1847]" captionTargetBox="[199,1389,632,1761]" captionTargetId="figure-185@110.[188,1397,620,1775]" captionTargetPageId="110" captionText="Figs 367372. Mecolaesthus Simon, 1893; male chelicerae, distal, frontal and lateral views; cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. 367. M. grandis (González-Sponga, 2009); from La Guaira, El Limón (type locality; ZFMK Ar 21899) (arrow: distinctive projection towards median). 368. M. multidenticulatus (González-Sponga, 2003); from Falcón, Curimagua (type locality; ZFMK Ar 21904). 369 372. M. tuberculosus (González-Sponga, 2003); from Yaracuy, Yurubi National Park (ZFMK Ar 21906 07) (arrow: distinctive lateral process). Scale lines: 0.3 mm (all chelicerae at same scale)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069750" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069750/files/figure.png" pageId="106" pageNumber="107">368</figureCitation>
; pair of large frontal processes curved downwards and set with 34 modified hairs each, and two small modified hairs more distally on weakly sclerotized area), by shape of main bulbal process (
<figureCitation id="137A2A3EFFBA7A6BFBDAFE13FEA2FE0D" box="[1105,1273,412,439]" captionStart="Figs 356364" captionStartId="105.[189,241,1896,1922]" captionTargetBox="[189,1395,265,1839]" captionTargetId="figure-66@105.[189,1398,265,1840]" captionTargetPageId="105" captionText="Figs 356364. Mecolaesthus multidenticulatus (González-Sponga, 2003); from Falcón, Curimagua (type locality; ZFMK Ar 2190405). 356358. Left palpal tarsus and procursus, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views. 359361. Left genital bulb, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views. 362363. Male chelicerae, frontal and lateral views. 364. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. Scale lines: 0.3 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069746" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069746/files/figure.png" pageId="106" pageNumber="107">Figs 359361</figureCitation>
; two large sclerites visible in prolateral view), by transparent process on procursus distally bent toward retrolateral (
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), and by shape of epigynum (
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; short but wide plate, pair of anterior internal sclerites extending towards lateral); from the very similar
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFBA7A6BFC9BFD8CF9CFFDA6" box="[784,916,514,540]" italics="true" pageId="106" pageNumber="107">M. grandis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFBA7A6BFC59FD8CFECAFDA6" box="[978,1169,514,540]" italics="true" pageId="106" pageNumber="107">M. tuberculosus</emphasis>
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by male cheliceral apophyses: without conspicuous projection towards median (
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; in contrast to
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFBA7A6BFB3DFDAAFF62FD84" box="[1206,1337,548,574]" italics="true" pageId="106" pageNumber="107">M. grandis</emphasis>
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) and without conspicuous lateral process (
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; in contrast to
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFBA7A6BFC1DFDC8FE0EFDDA" box="[918,1109,582,608]" italics="true" pageId="106" pageNumber="107">M. tuberculosus</emphasis>
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). From
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFBA7A6BFB33FDC8FF2CFDDA" box="[1208,1399,582,608]" italics="true" pageId="106" pageNumber="107">M. tuberculosus</emphasis>
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also by larger distance between pair of rounded sclerites in female internal genitalia (arrows in
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).
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a.s.l.,
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).
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The
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series of this species has been on loan to another researcher and could
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be examined. The newly collected material below originates from near Curimagua in the Sierra de
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, but it is
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clear how far the new collecting site is from the actual
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locality. The coordinates in the original publication are very precise and
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W of our new collecting site, but judging from other coordinates in González-Spongas papers they may
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be accurate. The spot identified by the coordinates lies at ~
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a.s.l.,
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at
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as indicated in the original publication.
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There seems to be no reasonable doubt that the new material below is correctly identified. However, contrary to
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statement, the male palp of this species has two trichobothria, as usual in
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one (the single known pholcid species with only one palpal trichobothrium is
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<paragraph id="8BFE36BBFFBA7A6BFF36FA44FBF0F990" blockId="106.[189,1399,1483,1578]" pageId="106" pageNumber="107">Several measurements in the original publication are obviously wrong (e.g., male femur 3 longer than femur 4; female femur 1 shorter than femur 2; female tibia 1 shorter than tibia 2; female metatarsus 2 shorter than tibia 2).</paragraph>
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(ZFMK Ar 21904)
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MEASUREMENTS. Total body length 3.6, carapace width 1.3. Distance PMEPME
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. Leg 1: 38.0 (9.0 +0.5 +9.1+16.9 + 2.5), tibia 2: 5.8, tibia 3: 4.5, tibia 4: 5.0; tibia 14 diameters:
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; tibia 1 L/d: 83.
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COLOR (in ethanol). Carapace pale ochre-gray with wide median and lateral marginal dark bands, ocular area mostly
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darkened, clypeus with wide dark brown mark; sternum pale ochre-grey; legs ochre to light brown, with indistinct darker rings on femora subdistally and on tibiae proximally and subdistally, femora and tibiae with light tips; abdomen pale bluish-gray, dorsally and laterally densely covered with dark bluish marks, ventrally with brown mark in gonopore area, brown book lung covers, pair of lateral
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<paragraph id="8BFE36BBFFBB7A6AFF36FE86F98DFEFC" blockId="107.[189,1398,265,326]" pageId="107" pageNumber="108">anterior brown plates opposing fourth coxae, and large bluish marks in front and behind gonopore; with barely visible dark mark above pedicel opposing carapace inflation.</paragraph>
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BODY. Habitus as in
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. Ocular area distinctly raised. Carapace anteriorly with distinct thoracic groove, posteriorly slightly inflated. Clypeus unmodified. Sternum wider than long (0.95/0.60).Abdomen slightly elongated, pointed at spinnerets.
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CHELICERAE. As in
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,
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, with pair of large frontal apophyses set with 34 slightly hooked short hairs and ~2 straight strong hairs in addition to regular setae, with two additional short hairs on whitish area below main apophyses, and small unsclerotized ridge.
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PALPS. In general as in
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(cf.
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); coxa with retrolateral apophysis, trochanter with small ventral process, femur proximally with large retrolateral process, distally with prominent rounded ventral process, retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia in very distal position; procursus (
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) at basis with bifid dorsal process with branches of equal length, with small retrolateral apophysis, distally with pair of membranous processes: retrolateral process bent towards retrolateral, with slightly sclerotized ring-shaped element, prolateral process with pointed tip; genital bulb complex (
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), distally mostly membranous/whitish but with distinctive distal sclerites (very similar
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).
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<paragraph id="8BFE36BBFFBB7A6AFF36FC03FF38FC72" blockId="107.[189,1398,907,969]" pageId="107" pageNumber="108">LEGS. Without spines and curved hairs; few vertical hairs; retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia 1 at 3%; prolateral trichobothrium present on all leg tibiae; tarsus 1 with ~35 pseudosegments, mostly distinct.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFBB7A6AFF61FC60FB71FBB3" bold="true" box="[234,298,1007,1033]" pageId="107" pageNumber="108">Male</emphasis>
(variation)
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Tibia
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ten males: 7.59.5 (mean 8.9); most males with light to dark brown book lung covers, but anterior brown plates opposing fourth coxae absent in some males, unrelated to body size. Brown plate above pedicel also absent in some males. Sternum in some males with light brown lateral marginal bands. Rings on legs in some males barely visible.
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In general similar to male (
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), also with variably dark book lung covers but never with brown plates opposing fourth coxae and never with brown plate above pedicel. Tibia
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nine females: 5.76.8 (mean 6.2). Epigynum (
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) small, light brown, wider than long, internal sclerites partly visible in uncleared specimens (very similar
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and
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFBB7A6AFCC1FAC8FE51FADA" box="[842,1034,1350,1376]" italics="true" pageId="107" pageNumber="108">M. tuberculosus</emphasis>
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). Internal genitalia (
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,
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) with pair of anterior sclerites extending towards lateral, median receptacle, pair of pore plates tilted into almost vertical position, and pair of round ventral sclerites.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFBB7A6AFF36FA43FB0DFA5C" bold="true" box="[189,342,1484,1510]" pageId="107" pageNumber="108">Distribution</emphasis>
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Known from Sierra de San Luis only, in
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,
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(Fig. 1043).
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFBB7A6AFF36F9B3FB25F9EF" bold="true" box="[189,382,1595,1622]" pageId="107" pageNumber="108">Natural history</emphasis>
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This species was abundant at the bases of trees (often in close proximity to
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFBB7A6AFBEEF9E5FF2DF93E" box="[1125,1398,1642,1668]" italics="true" pageId="107" pageNumber="108">Mesabolivar eberhardi</emphasis>
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), and in protected spaces close to the ground. The domed sheet webs were mostly very strongly curved. According to
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, the
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specimens were collected in crevices of rotting tree trunks.
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