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Distinguished from most congeners [except 
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] by armature of male chelicerae (
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; pair of large frontal processes curved downwards and set with ~5 modified hairs each, and two small modified hairs more distally on weakly sclerotized area), by shape of main bulbal process (
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; 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 (
<figureCitation id="137A2A3EFFB47A65FD81FC41F82AFC52" box="[522,625,974,1000]" captionStart="Figs 373–381" captionStartId="111.[189,241,1858,1884]" captionTargetBox="[189,1398,797,1821]" captionTargetId="figure-236@111.[189,1398,797,1821]" captionTargetPageId="111" captionText="Figs 373–381. Mecolaesthus Simon, 1893; epigyna, ventral views and cleared female genitalia, ventral and dorsal views (arrows: internal rounded sclerites). 373–375. M. grandis (González-Sponga, 2009); from La Guaira, El Limón (type locality; ZFMK Ar 21900). 376–378. M. multidenticulatus (González- Sponga, 2003); from Falcón, Curimagua (type locality; ZFMK Ar 21905). 379–381. M. tuberculosus (González-Sponga, 2003); from Yaracuy, Yurubi National Park (ZFMK Ar 21907)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069752" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069752/files/figure.png" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Fig. 373</figureCitation>
; short but wide plate, pair of anterior internal sclerites extending towards lateral); from the very similar 
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB47A65FD13FC7CF9D4FBB6" box="[664,911,1010,1036]" italics="true" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">M. multidenticulatus</emphasis>
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and 
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB47A65FC45FC7CFED5FBB6" box="[974,1166,1010,1036]" italics="true" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">M. tuberculosus</emphasis>
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by male cheliceral apophysis with conspicuous projection towards median (arrow in 
<figureCitation id="137A2A3EFFB47A65FC4DFB99FE77FB8B" box="[966,1068,1046,1073]" captionStart="Figs 367–372" captionStartId="110.[188,240,1821,1847]" captionTargetBox="[199,1389,632,1761]" captionTargetId="figure-185@110.[188,1397,620,1775]" captionTargetPageId="110" captionText="Figs 367–372. 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="100" pageNumber="101">Fig. 367</figureCitation>
); from 
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB47A65FB08FB98FF64FB8A" box="[1155,1343,1046,1072]" italics="true" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">M. tuberculosus</emphasis>
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also by absence of conspicuous lateral process on male cheliceral apophysis and by larger distance between pair of rounded sclerites in female internal genitalia (arrows in 
<figureCitation id="137A2A3EFFB47A65FC29FBD0FE52FBC3" box="[930,1033,1119,1145]" captionStart="Figs 373–381" captionStartId="111.[189,241,1858,1884]" captionTargetBox="[189,1398,797,1821]" captionTargetId="figure-236@111.[189,1398,797,1821]" captionTargetPageId="111" captionText="Figs 373–381. Mecolaesthus Simon, 1893; epigyna, ventral views and cleared female genitalia, ventral and dorsal views (arrows: internal rounded sclerites). 373–375. M. grandis (González-Sponga, 2009); from La Guaira, El Limón (type locality; ZFMK Ar 21900). 376–378. M. multidenticulatus (González- Sponga, 2003); from Falcón, Curimagua (type locality; ZFMK Ar 21905). 379–381. M. tuberculosus (González-Sponga, 2003); from Yaracuy, Yurubi National Park (ZFMK Ar 21907)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069752" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069752/files/figure.png" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Fig. 374</figureCitation>
).
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material
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<paragraph id="8BFE36BBFFB47A65FF36FB5EF884FA89" blockId="100.[189,1399,1233,1332]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">
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– 
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</emphasis>
• 
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<typeStatus id="54FA8819FFB47A65FDD8FB5EF8E6FB51" box="[595,701,1233,1259]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" type="holotype">holotype</typeStatus>
, 
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, 
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(see Notes below), 
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(
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), 
<collectorName id="26B4536DFFB47A65FE84FB7AFBA8FAB5" box="[271,499,1269,1295]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Hacienda El Limón</collectorName>
(
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, 
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), 
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<quantity id="4CB99B5EFFB47A65FC95FB7AF92DFAAA" box="[798,886,1269,1296]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.2" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" unit="m" value="1200.0">1200 m</quantity>
a.s.l.
</elevation>
(see Notes below), 
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<collectingDate id="EFBBE993FFB47A65FB13FB7AFF74FAB5" box="[1176,1327,1269,1295]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" value="1990-10-27">27 Oct. 1990</collectingDate>
</date>
(
<collectorName id="26B4536DFFB47A65FAB5FB7AFB32FA8E" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">A.R. Delgado de G.</collectorName>
, 
<collectorName id="26B4536DFFB47A65FEFDFA95F80AFA8E" box="[374,593,1305,1332]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">M.A. González-S.</collectorName>
); examined
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.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB47A65FF36FAD3FB01FACC" bold="true" box="[189,346,1372,1398]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">New records</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="8BFE36BBFFB47A65FF36FA03FEBFF91E" blockId="100.[189,1399,1419,1700]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">
<materialsCitation id="3B293CE6FFB47A65FF36FA03F93FFA54" collectingDate="2018-11-09" collectionCode="ZFMK" collectorName="B. A. Huber &amp; O. Villarreal M." country="Venezuela" county="Ar" elevation="1535" latitude="10.4566" location="La Guaira" longLatPrecision="7" longitude="-67.2548" municipality="Ven" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" specimenCount="11" specimenCount-female="8" specimenCount-male="3">
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</taxonomicName>
– 
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</emphasis>
• 
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, 
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, 
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(Ar 21899–21900), and 
<specimenCount id="9D47FD32FFB47A65FBA3FA03FE31FA1C" box="[1064,1130,1420,1446]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" type="female">3 ♀♀</specimenCount>
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(Ven18-155), 
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, 
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, 
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), 
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<quantity id="4CB99B5EFFB47A65FF36FA5BFB4CFA54" box="[189,279,1492,1519]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.535" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" unit="m" value="1535.0">1535 m</quantity>
a.s.l.
</elevation>
, 
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<collectingDate id="EFBBE993FFB47A65FEEFFA5BFBADFA54" box="[356,502,1492,1518]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" value="2018-11-09">9 Nov. 2018</collectingDate>
</date>
(
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, 
<collectorName id="26B4536DFFB47A65FD15FA5BF900FA54" box="[670,859,1492,1518]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">O. Villarreal M.</collectorName>
)
</materialsCitation>
• 
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, 
<collectionCode id="ED50AE7EFFB47A65FC5BFA5BFE7AFA54" box="[976,1057,1492,1518]" collectionName="Germany, Bonn, Zoologische Forschungsinstitut und Museum &quot;Alexander Koenig&quot;" country="Germany" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34613" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34613" name="Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" type="Museum">ZFMK</collectionCode>
(Ar 21901), and 
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(Ven20-173), 
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, 
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), 
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<quantity id="4CB99B5EFFB47A65FBC9FA77FEC7F9A9" box="[1090,1180,1528,1555]" metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.2349999999999999" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" unit="m" value="1235.0">1235 m</quantity>
a.s.l.
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, 
<collectedFrom id="385D7546FFB47A65FB61FA77FB55F98D" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">forest along stream</collectedFrom>
, 
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<collectingDate id="EFBBE993FFB47A65FE91F993FBEEF98C" box="[282,437,1564,1590]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" value="2020-02-21">21 Feb. 2020</collectingDate>
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(B.A. 
<collectorName id="26B4536DFFB47A65FD8EF993F80BF98C" box="[517,592,1564,1590]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Huber</collectorName>
, 
<collectorName id="26B4536DFFB47A65FDD7F993F8B4F98C" box="[604,751,1564,1590]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">O. Villarreal</collectorName>
M.). – 
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<collectingRegion id="4985F859FFB47A65FCCDF993F9FEF98C" box="[838,933,1564,1590]" country="Venezuela" name="Aragua" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Aragua</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
</materialsCitation>
• 
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<specimenCount id="9D47FD32FFB47A65FC35F993FE59F98D" box="[958,1026,1564,1591]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" type="male">2 ♂♂</specimenCount>
, 
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, 
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(Ar 21902), and 
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, 
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), ~ 
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a.s.l.
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(B.A. Huber)
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• 
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<collectingDate id="EFBBE993FFB47A65FC16F906FE61F919" box="[925,1082,1673,1700]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101" value="2002-12-11">11 Dec. 2002</collectingDate>
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(B.A. Huber)
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.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB47A65FF36F943FB58F95C" bold="true" box="[189,259,1740,1766]" pageId="100" pageNumber="101">Notes</emphasis>
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The original description mentions 
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: 1 ♂ 
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, 
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, eight (non-type) females, and 
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. The 
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listed under ‘Type material’ above are all joined in one vial, so it is no longer possible to distinguish the female 
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from the other females.
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The original coordinates are probably accurate or close to accurate. We were 
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able to exactly identify the original collecting site. Our 2020 collecting site above (“El 
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, site 2”) is within 
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from the coordinates in the original publication.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB57A64FF36F8CEFB32F8E6" bold="true" box="[189,361,1857,1884]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">Figs 338–345.</emphasis>
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Simon, 1893
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; live specimens. 
<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB57A64FC05F8CDF9AEF8E6" bold="true" box="[910,1013,1858,1884]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">338–340</emphasis>
. 
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(
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; male and female with egg sac from La Guaira, El Limón (arrow: brown plate above pedicel opposing carapace inflation). 
<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB57A64FD98F807F821F818" bold="true" box="[531,634,1928,1954]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">341–343</emphasis>
. 
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB57A64FD0CF806F922F818" box="[647,889,1928,1954]" italics="true" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">M. multidenticulatus</emphasis>
(
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; male and female with egg sac from Falcón, Curimagua. 
<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB57A64FD04F824F8AEF87F" bold="true" box="[655,757,1963,1989]" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">344–345</emphasis>
. 
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB57A64FC8EF823F998F87F" box="[773,963,1963,1989]" italics="true" pageId="101" pageNumber="102">M. tuberculosus</emphasis>
(
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)
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; male and female with egg sac from Yaracuy, Yurubi National Park.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB67A67FF36FE87FB30FE98" bold="true" box="[189,363,264,290]" pageId="102" pageNumber="103">Redescription</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB67A67FF61FEB8FB71FEEB" bold="true" box="[234,298,311,337]" pageId="102" pageNumber="103">Male</emphasis>
(ZFMK Ar 21899)
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MEASUREMENTS. Total body length 4.3, carapace width 1.5. Distance PME–PME 
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; diameter PME 
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; distance PME–ALE 
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; diameter AME 
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; distance AME–AME 
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. Leg 1: 37.9 (9.0 +0.6 +9.3+16.6 + 2.4), tibia 2: 5.8, tibia 3: 4.7, tibia 4: 5.1; tibia 1–4 diameters: 
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, 
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, 
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, 
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; tibia 1 L/d: 78.
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<paragraph id="8BFE36BBFFB67A67FF36FD8AFF7AFD49" blockId="102.[189,1399,517,755]" pageId="102" pageNumber="103">
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 barely visible 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 anterior brown plates opposing fourth coxae, and large bluish marks in front and behind gonopore; with light brown plate above pedicel opposing carapace inflation (arrow in 
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB67A67FF36F808FB3DF81B" bold="true" box="[189,358,1927,1953]" pageId="102" pageNumber="103">Figs 346–347.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB67A67FEE5F808F82BF81B" box="[366,624,1927,1953]" italics="true" pageId="102" pageNumber="103">Mecolaesthus grandis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFD04B4AFFB67A67FDF4F808F9FBF818" author="Gonzalez-Sponga M. A." box="[639,928,1927,1954]" pageId="102" pageNumber="103" pagination="1 - 16" refId="ref127402" refString="Gonzalez-Sponga M. A. 2009. Aracnidos de Venezuela. Cuatro nuevos generos y cinco especies nuevas de la familia Pholcidae (Araneae). Anartia 21: 1 - 16." type="journal article" year="2009">González-Sponga, 2009</bibRefCitation>
)
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; holotype from La Guaira, Hacienda El Limón (MIZA 105663; MAGS 1215); left male pedipalp, prolateral and retrolateral views. Scale line: 0.3 mm.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB77A66FF36F8ECFB3FF8C7" bold="true" box="[189,356,1891,1917]" pageId="103" pageNumber="104">Figs 348–355.</emphasis>
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(
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; from La Guaira, El Limón (type locality; ZFMK Ar 21899–21900). 
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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. 
<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB77A66FBA2F826FE0EF879" bold="true" box="[1065,1109,1961,1987]" pageId="103" pageNumber="104">354</emphasis>
. Male chelicerae, frontal view. 
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. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. Scale lines: 0.3 mm.
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BODY. Habitus as in 
<figureCitation id="137A2A3EFFB87A69FE4AFE86F831FE99" box="[449,618,265,291]" captionStart="Figs 338–345" captionStartId="101.[189,241,1857,1883]" captionTargetBox="[189,1398,397,1810]" captionTargetId="figure-76@101.[189,1398,397,1810]" captionTargetPageId="101" captionText="Figs 338–345. Mecolaesthus Simon, 1893; live specimens. 338–340. M. grandis (González-Sponga, 2009); male and female with egg sac from La Guaira, El Limón (arrow: brown plate above pedicel opposing carapace inflation). 341–343. M. multidenticulatus (González-Sponga, 2003); male and female with egg sac from Falcón, Curimagua. 344–345. M. tuberculosus (González-Sponga, 2003); male and female with egg sac from Yaracuy, Yurubi National Park." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069740" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069740/files/figure.png" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">Figs 338–339</figureCitation>
. Ocular area distinctly raised. Carapace anteriorly with distinct thoracic groove, posteriorly slightly inflated. Clypeus unmodified. Sternum wider than long (0.95/0.75). Abdomen slightly elongated, pointed at spinnerets.
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CHELICERAE. As in 
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and 
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, with pair of large frontal apophyses set with ~5 slightly hooked short hairs, with two additional short hairs on whitish area below main apophysis, and small unsclerotized ridge.
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PALPS. As in 
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; coxa with retrolateral apophysis, trochanter with very 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 unequal length, with small retrolateral apophysis, distally with pair of membranous processes: retrolateral process distally bent towards retrolateral, prolateral process with pointed tip; genital bulb complex (
<figureCitation id="137A2A3EFFB87A69FD10FD59F91FFD4B" box="[667,836,726,753]" captionStart="Figs 348–355" captionStartId="103.[189,241,1891,1917]" captionTargetBox="[200,1377,265,1864]" captionTargetId="figure-66@103.[189,1398,265,1873]" captionTargetPageId="103" captionText="Figs 348–355. Mecolaesthus grandis (González-Sponga, 2009); from La Guaira, El Limón (type locality; ZFMK Ar 21899–21900). 348–350. Left palpal tarsus and procursus, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views. 351–353. Left genital bulb, prolateral, dorsal, and retrolateral views. 354. Male chelicerae, frontal view. 355. Cleared female genitalia, dorsal view. Scale lines: 0.3 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069744" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069744/files/figure.png" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">Figs 351–353</figureCitation>
), distally mostly membranous/whitish but with distinctive distal sclerites (very similar 
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).
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<paragraph id="8BFE36BBFFB87A69FF36FCB1FF38FCC6" blockId="104.[189,1399,829,893]" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">LEGS. Without spines and curved hairs; few vertical hairs; retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia 1 at 3.5%; prolateral trichobothrium present on all leg tibiae; tarsus 1 with ~35 pseudosegments, mostly distinct.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB87A69FF61FC2AFB71FC05" bold="true" box="[234,298,933,959]" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">Male</emphasis>
(variation)
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Tibia 
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nine males: 8.7–10.5 (mean 9.5); most males with light to dark brown book lung covers, but anterior brown plates opposing fourth coxae indistinct or absent in some males, unrelated to body size. Brown plate above pedicel also absent in some males.
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB87A69FF61FBDAFB1EFBD5" bold="true" box="[234,325,1109,1135]" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">Female</emphasis>
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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: 5.7–6.6 (mean 6.3). Epigynum (
<figureCitation id="137A2A3EFFB87A69FE57FB4DF819FB66" box="[476,578,1218,1244]" captionStart="Figs 373–381" captionStartId="111.[189,241,1858,1884]" captionTargetBox="[189,1398,797,1821]" captionTargetId="figure-236@111.[189,1398,797,1821]" captionTargetPageId="111" captionText="Figs 373–381. Mecolaesthus Simon, 1893; epigyna, ventral views and cleared female genitalia, ventral and dorsal views (arrows: internal rounded sclerites). 373–375. M. grandis (González-Sponga, 2009); from La Guaira, El Limón (type locality; ZFMK Ar 21900). 376–378. M. multidenticulatus (González- Sponga, 2003); from Falcón, Curimagua (type locality; ZFMK Ar 21905). 379–381. M. tuberculosus (González-Sponga, 2003); from Yaracuy, Yurubi National Park (ZFMK Ar 21907)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4069752" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4069752/files/figure.png" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">Fig. 373</figureCitation>
) small, light brown, wider than long, internal sclerites partly visible in uncleared specimens (possibly indistinguishable from 
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and 
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB87A69FB2DFB67FF3DFABB" box="[1190,1382,1255,1281]" italics="true" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">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 (arrows in 
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).
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB87A69FF36FA18FB0DFA0B" bold="true" box="[189,342,1431,1457]" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">Distribution</emphasis>
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Known from several localities in the Venezuelan states La 
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and 
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(Fig. 1043).
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<emphasis id="B935EAA9FFB87A69FF36F985FB25F999" bold="true" box="[189,382,1545,1572]" pageId="104" pageNumber="105">Natural history</emphasis>
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found the species under decaying logs. The new specimens from El 
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were collected in a forest fragment from strongly curved webs close to the ground. When disturbed, the spiders ran away rather than shaking or vibrating their bodies.
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