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(
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Figs.
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, 4
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124AFFE2FF452EFD6F7AF83C" box="[151,337,1975,1999]" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="397">Alpaida machala</emphasis>
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, figures 559563. Female
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from Buenavista (
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of
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), El Oro,
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,
<date id="166C95A6124AFFE2FEFE2E926F83F81C" box="[300,424,2008,2031]" pageId="0" pageNumber="397" value="1942-11-20">20.XI.1942</date>
, R. Walls. Deposited in California Academy of Sciences (CAS, not examined). WSC 2015.
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FF4529D26F5DFF5C" bold="true" box="[151,374,152,175]" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">Material examined.</emphasis>
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, Pichincha:
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(Road from Quito to Puerto Quito),
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,
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, ♂,
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, W. Maddison (
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).
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FF1529976F28FF07" bold="true" box="[199,259,221,244]" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">Note.</emphasis>
Male and female were considered conspecific for having the same color pattern.
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FF15284A6F17FEE4" bold="true" box="[199,316,256,279]" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
The male of
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FE1A29B56C54FEE4" box="[456,639,255,279]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">Alpaida machala</emphasis>
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is similar to those of
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FCB129B56DF1FEE4" box="[867,986,255,279]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">A. truncata</emphasis>
(Keyserling, 1865)
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and
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FB0F29B56B75FEE4" box="[1245,1374,255,279]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">A. queremal</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="0643CE97124BFFE3FAB6284A6EE7FECA" author="Levi" pageId="1" pageNumber="398" refString="Levi, H. W. (1988) The neotropical orb-weaving spiders of the genus Alpaida (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 151, 365 - 487." type="journal article" year="1988">Levi, 1988</bibRefCitation>
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(see
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, figures 569; 577) in having an elongate median apophysis, which contours the tegulum laterally. Males of
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FF28280F6F58FEAF" box="[250,371,324,348]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">A. machala</emphasis>
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differ from those of
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FD9C280F6CFBFEAF" box="[590,720,324,348]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">A. quaremal</emphasis>
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(see
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, figure 569) by the developed cylindrical projection in the basis of the median apophysis, by the rectangular-shaped conductor, and by a particularly short embolus that is almost totally hidden by the conductor (
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).
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FD4F28C06D3CFE52" box="[669,791,393,417]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">A. machala</emphasis>
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can be easily distinguished from
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FB5128C06AD0FE52" box="[1155,1275,394,417]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">A. truncata</emphasis>
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by the median apophysis apex, which narrows abruptly in the latter species (see
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, figure 577) and also by the lack of a modified tibia II, diagnostic in
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FE3128856C70FE14" box="[483,603,463,487]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">A. truncata</emphasis>
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(see
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, figure 578).
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<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FF1528B86F79FDFA" bold="true" box="[199,338,498,521]" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">Description.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="50A66F74124BFFE3FE8828BB6FBAFDFA" box="[346,401,497,521]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="398">Male</emphasis>
(MCZ, Pichincha,
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). Total length 3.70. Carapace length 1.75, width 1.40, height 0.60. Clypeus height 0.08. Sternum width 0.54. Abdomen length 2.15, width 1.25, height 1.30. Leg formula 1,4=2,3. Leg lengths (I/II/III/IV): femur 2.25/1.85/1.35/1.85; patella+tibia 2.45/2.00/1.30/1.95; metatarsus 1.50/1.25/0.90/1.35; tarsus 0.70/0.60/0.50/0.55. Total leg 6.90/5.70/4.05/5.70. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.12, ALE 0.10, PME 0.08, PLE 0.12; AME-ALE 0.12, PME-PLE 0.24, AME-AME 0.10, PME-PME 0.10. Median ocular area black, carapace and chelicerae pale yellow (see
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, figure 562). Sternum dark-brown. Labium and endites dark-brown with white apex. Legs I and II pale yellow, except by the tibiae, metatarsus, and tarsus that are light-orange; legs III and IV totally pale yellow. Abdomen longer than wide; dorsally, partially bordered by white pigment, with a discolored central area with longitudinal paired white marks and a transversal one posteriorly; also there are dusky rounded marks on shoulders, as in the female (see
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, figure 562). Venter with a dark-brown band from the spinnerets to the epigastric furrow, as the female (see
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, figure 563).
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: see
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.
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: Pichincha and El Oro (
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).
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