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<document ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6209497" ID-GBIF-Dataset="abe42390-e5b3-472a-80d9-88f7be67d863" ID-GBIF-Taxon="114923750" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6209497" checkinTime="1430747876485" checkinUser="jeremy" docAuthor="David B. Richman" docDate="2010" docId="038D87C1FFF6EF6AFB84385DFE0DBF90" docLanguage="en" docName="11533_Richman_2010_Jou_38_73-78.pdf" docOrigin="The Journal of Arachnology 38" docTitle="Hentzia alamosa Richman, 2010, new species" docType="treatment" docVersion="5" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="75" masterDocId="FFB4FFB9FFF6EF69FF943C44FFA2BB77" masterDocTitle="A new species and new records of Hentzia (Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantinae) from the United States" masterLastPageNumber="78" masterPageNumber="73" pageId="0" pageNumber="73" updateTime="1645470422916" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<taxonomicName box="[1040,1218,1049,1071]" class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Hentzia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alamosa" status="new species">Hentzia alamosa</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation box="[1120,1272,1079,1101]" captionStart-0="Figure 1" captionStart-1="Figure 2" captionStart-2="Figure 3" captionStart-3="Figures 4 8" captionStart-4="Figures 9 17" captionStartId-0="1.[124,187,970,990]" captionStartId-1="1.[124,187,1919,1938]" captionStartId-2="2.[166,230,1008,1028]" captionStartId-3="3.[124,196,1112,1132]" captionStartId-4="4.[166,238,1252,1272]" captionTargetBox-0="[292,1296,349,947]" captionTargetBox-1="[292,1296,1095,1895]" captionTargetBox-2="[335,1339,194,986]" captionTargetBox-3="[316,1292,196,1090]" captionTargetBox-4="[146,1527,194,1230]" captionTargetId-0="figure@1.[292,1297,194,948]" captionTargetId-1="figure@1.[292,1297,1095,1896]" captionTargetId-2="figure@2.[335,1339,194,986]" captionTargetId-3="figure@3.[292,1297,194,1090]" captionTargetId-4="figure@4.[146,1527,194,1230]" captionTargetPageId-0="1" captionTargetPageId-1="1" captionTargetPageId-2="2" captionTargetPageId-3="3" captionTargetPageId-4="4" captionText-0="Figure 1. — Habitat of Hentzia alamosa new species near Cuevas Amarillas, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Presidio County, Texas. Adults were collected in the cottonwood trees in the background." captionText-1="Figure 2. — Female holotype of Hentzia alamosa new species from Big Bend Ranch State Park, Presidio County, Texas. Note light legs and general lack of distinct markings." captionText-2="Figure 3. — Male allotype of Hentzia alamosa new species from Big Bend Ranch State Park, Presidio County, Texas. Note white band on dorsal abdomen anterior to spinnerets." captionText-3="Figures 4 8. — Hentzia alamosa new species. 4, 5. Female holotype epigynum; 4. Ventral view; 5. Dorsal view. 6 8 Male allotype; 6. Ventral chelicera; 7, 8. Left palp; 7. Ventral view; 8. Retrolateral view. Scales = 0.1 mm for female epigynum and male palp; 0.2 mm for male chelicera." captionText-4="Figures 9 17. — Hentzia species. 9, 10. Hentzia alamosa new species, female paratype epigyna, ventral views; 9. From Cuevas Amarillas, Big Bend State Park, Presidio County, Texas; 10. From Ojito Adentro, Big Bend State Park, Presidio County, Texas. 11 15. Hentzia palmarum (Hentz) female epigyna, ventral views; 11. From Archbold Biological Station, Highland County, Florida; 12. From Madina County, Texas; 13. From Travis County, Texas; 14. From Zavala County, Texas; 15. From Edwards County, Texas. 16. Hentzia fimbriata female epigynum, ventral view, near Sycamore Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. 17. Hentzia alamosa new species male chelicerae, male allotype (paratype), from Cuevas Amarillas, Big Bend State Park, Presidio County, Texas. Note two acute promarginal teeth and one acute retromarginal tooth, similar to that of male Hentzia palmarum, but with the proximal teeth nearly in line. All epigynal photos to same scale; both bars = 0.2 mm." pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Figs. 110, 17</figureCitation>
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material.
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:
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, beating cottonwood along wash east of caves, deposited in the collection of Texas A &amp; M Insect Collection (
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), College Station
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,
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;
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[886,1049,1385,1406]" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Other material.</emphasis>
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(
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and
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(Arthropod Museum, New Mexico State University -
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),
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. Beating cottonwoods.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[886,1020,1532,1553]" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Distribution.</emphasis>
—Known only from Big Bend area.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[886,1008,1563,1584]" pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Etymology.</emphasis>
—The name is taken from the Spanish alamo for cottonwood, the trees on which this species has so far been collected.
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—Males of this species would key out to
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in Richman (1989), but the females have a very distinctive flattened to normal U-shaped atrium above the bell-like central structure (
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,
<figureCitation box="[1260,1314,1739,1760]" captionStart="Figures 9 17" captionStartId="4.[166,238,1252,1272]" captionTargetBox="[146,1527,194,1230]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[146,1527,194,1230]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="Figures 9 17. — Hentzia species. 9, 10. Hentzia alamosa new species, female paratype epigyna, ventral views; 9. From Cuevas Amarillas, Big Bend State Park, Presidio County, Texas; 10. From Ojito Adentro, Big Bend State Park, Presidio County, Texas. 11 15. Hentzia palmarum (Hentz) female epigyna, ventral views; 11. From Archbold Biological Station, Highland County, Florida; 12. From Madina County, Texas; 13. From Travis County, Texas; 14. From Zavala County, Texas; 15. From Edwards County, Texas. 16. Hentzia fimbriata female epigynum, ventral view, near Sycamore Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. 17. Hentzia alamosa new species male chelicerae, male allotype (paratype), from Cuevas Amarillas, Big Bend State Park, Presidio County, Texas. Note two acute promarginal teeth and one acute retromarginal tooth, similar to that of male Hentzia palmarum, but with the proximal teeth nearly in line. All epigynal photos to same scale; both bars = 0.2 mm." pageId="0" pageNumber="73">9, 10</figureCitation>
).
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has either two separate openings or these are connected as an upside-down, U-shaped depression (
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and Richman (1989, figs. 24, 26).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="73">Females so far collected, with the exception of one from Ojito Adentro (TAMUIC), which had three sets of distinct paired brown spots on the dorsum, lack a pattern on their abdomen except for a few tiny spots and occasionally vague</paragraph>
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73 streaks, whereas most
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females have at least a faint, but distinct, set of blotches and chevrons (see Kaston 1978; Richman 1989). Females of
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also have all pale legs, whereas in
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females the front pair is darker than the rest. The male chelicerae (
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,
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) differ from those of
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, in which the teeth are evenly spaced (Richman 1989, fig. 37), and more closely resembled those of
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<emphasis box="[244,389,1320,1343]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">H. palmarum</emphasis>
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. However, in
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<emphasis box="[553,697,1320,1343]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">H. palmarum</emphasis>
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the retromarginal tooth is usually slightly more proximal than the proximal promarginal tooth (Richman 1989, figs. 18, 19), while in
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the proximal promarginal and retromarginal teeth are almost exactly in line when viewed ventrally (
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). The one male collected also had a very light band on the tip of its abdomen, which has not been seen in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">H. palmarum</emphasis>
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. This is the first
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<emphasis box="[494,577,1529,1550]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Hentzia</emphasis>
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reported from the Chihuhuan Desert, and the
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locality is approximately
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southwest of the nearest known records for
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">
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in Edwards County, Texas.
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="74">
Figure 1.—Habitat of
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near Cuevas Amarillas, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Presidio County, Texas. Adults were collected in the cottonwood trees in the background.
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Figure 2.—Female holotype of
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from Big Bend Ranch State Park, Presidio County, Texas. Note light legs and general lack of distinct markings.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="75">
Figure 3.—Male allotype of
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from Big Bend Ranch State Park, Presidio County, Texas. Note white band on dorsal abdomen anterior to spinnerets.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="75">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[169,252,1648,1669]" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Female.</emphasis>
—Female
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from Presidio County, Texas: Total length 4.2, carapace length 1.9, carapace width 1.6. Ventral spines on first tibiae 2-2-2. Leg formula 1423. Chelicerae with 2 promarginal teeth and one larger retromarginal tooth. Body almost unicolored yellowish, with two dark speckles (46 on
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females) on the dorsum of the abdomen [very faint slanted bands laterally in
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female from Cuavas Amarillas, and one female from Ojito Adentro had dark brown markings similar to those found on females of
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<emphasis box="[476,658,1915,1936]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Hentzia mitrata</emphasis>
(Hentz)
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(see Richman 1989, fig. 30)]. Chelicerae red-brown, endites lighter red-brown with pale distal portion. Sternum brown anteriorly, fading to yellow toward the posterior. Legs and palpi pale yellow.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[886,948,1203,1224]" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Male.</emphasis>
—Male allotype (
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) from Presidio County, Texas. Total length 4.5, carapace length 2.0, carapace width 1.7. Leg formula 1423. General description close to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">H. palmarum</emphasis>
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, with 2 promarginal teeth and one larger retromarginal tooth, all acute and the latter almost exactly in line with the proximal promarginal tooth (
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,
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). Abdominal pattern distinctive, with light band (appearing as spot) at tip of abdomen. However, as only one male is known this may not be a diagnostic character.
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<subSubSection pageId="2" pageNumber="75" type="biology_ecology">
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[886,1066,1470,1491]" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Natural History.</emphasis>
—This species seems to be closely associated with tall trees, especially, if not exclusively, cottonwoods (
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). Attempts to collect it on associated trees and shrubs along the wash at Cuevas Amarillas on the same date as the
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failed, despite numerous attempts. Males are only known from March and females from March and October. Adults may be found (like
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<emphasis box="[1151,1292,1647,1669]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">H. palmarum</emphasis>
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) throughout the year.
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<paragraph lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="76" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[886,988,1678,1699]" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">Remarks.</emphasis>
—An illustration by Kaston (1948, fig. 1814) bares some slight resemblance to the epigynum of this species, but resembles the epigynum of
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<emphasis box="[1154,1286,1736,1759]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="75">H. fimbriata</emphasis>
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even more closely. On the other hand illustrations of the epigynum of
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</emphasis>
in Peckham &amp; Peckham (1909, plate 42, fig. 1b) and in Chickering (1944, fig. 42), as well as unpublished drawings by Wayne Maddison (see Proszynski 2007), all agree with the illustrations of Richman (1989). It is not certain exactly what species Kaston was actually illustrating, since none of the specimens examined for the revision of the genus (Richman 1989) appeared to match this drawing, which was presumably of a female from Connecticut.
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