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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="18">Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Theridiidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName authority="Agnarsson, 2005 in Agnarsson and Kuntner (2005)" class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Anelosimus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Anelosimus may" order="Araneae" pageId="5" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="may">Anelosimus may Agnarsson, 2005 in Agnarsson and Kuntner (2005)</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="18">Notes.</paragraph>
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The species is here redescribed to clarify earlier taxonomic confusion; the female previously described (see
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), was in fact not conspecific with the male holotype, and is below described as
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sp. n. Here we therefore redescribe the female of
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based on specimens collected at the type locality of the male. An additional male specimen also allowed a more detailed documentation of the male palp (Fig. 2
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="18">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype male from Ambohitantely Special Reserve, Analamanga region, Ankazobe district, Madagascar, (
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,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="55" value="47.302">47.302°E</geoCoordinate>
), 17-22.iv.2001, mon
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forest, 1500 m alt, col. J. J. Rafanomezantsoa et al., in CAS, examined (see
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).
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="19">Other material.</paragraph>
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Additional three females from same locality, 28.iv.2008, col. Agnarsson and Kuntner, a male and multiple females from
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Special Reserve, Andasibe Mantadia National Park, Madagascar (
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,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="55" value="48.417">48.417°E</geoCoordinate>
), montane forest, 900-1000 m alt, 3-20.iv.2008 and 12-28.xi.2008, col. Agnarsson, Kuntner, and Hanitriniaina and eight females from Ranamofana National Park (
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,
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), montane rainforest, 980-1050 m alt, 27.iv.-2.v.2013, col. Pruitt.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="19">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Males are diagnosed from other species by the shape of the theridiid tegular apophysis, bifurcated with the lower branch longer than the upper (Fig. 2G) and the voluminous Eb (Fig. 2E). Females differ from others of the Madagascar group, except
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ata
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sp. n. by the anchor-shaped septum (Fig. 2H) and from
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sp. n. by the more acute curving of the copulatory duct (Fig. 2I).
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can be diagnosed from other Madagascan
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on the basis of the following unique mtDNA nucleotide substitutions at the following standard DNA barcode alignment positions: A (31), A (223), A (274), G (517), G (529). It can also be readily diagnosed from most other
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based the following partially shared nucleotide substitutions, and all other species by their unique combination: T (58, except
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sp. n.), G (100, except
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sp. n., and some
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sp. n.), T (181, except
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sp. n.), G (244, except
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sp. n.), T (352, except
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and
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sp. n.), T (355, except
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sp. n.), T (484, except
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sp. n. and
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), T (781, except
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Anelosimus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Anelosimus huxleyi" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="huxleyi">Anelosimus huxleyi</taxonomicName>
sp. n. and
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Anelosimus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Anelosimus salut" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="salut">Anelosimus salut</taxonomicName>
sp. n.), G (805, except rarely
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), A (871, except
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), G (973, except
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Theridiidae" genus="Anelosimus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Anelosimus sallee" order="Araneae" pageId="7" pageNumber="20" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sallee">Anelosimus sallee</taxonomicName>
).
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="20">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="20">Female: Total length 6.02 Cephalothorax 2.77 long, 1.94 wide, 1.58 high, brown. Sternum 1.49 long, 1.23 wide, extending half way between coxae IV, brown. Abdomen 3.85 long, 2.74 wide, 2.8 high. Brown base with white line and dot patterns with red near the spinnerets. Eyes subequal in size about 0.14 in diameter. Clypeus height about 2.9 times one AME diameter. Chelicerae with one large tooth, three denticles prolaterally. Leg I femur 3.4, patella 1.06, tibia 3.22, metatarsus 2.92, tarsus 1.18. Leg formula 2314, with leg 4 slightly longer than leg 1. Legs 1 and 2 brown, legs 3 and 4 light brown-yellow with dark brown at junctions between tibia and metatarsus, and metatarsus and tarsus. 4 small trichobothria dorsally on tibia I, 4 on tibia II. Trichobothria on all metatarsi (1-2), 4-5 dorsal trichobothria on female palpal tibia.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="20">Variation: Total length 5.70-6.20, Cephalothorax 2.60-2.80, femur 1 3.00-3.50.</paragraph>
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Male (from Ranamofana, see
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for description of holotype male): Total length 4.01. Cephalothorax 2.05 long, 1.61 wide, 0.91 high, dark brown. Abdomen 2.21 long, 1.54 wide, 1.41 high. Light brown base with black/brown spots, two jagged white longitudinal stripes and a central red longitudinal band. Eyes subequal in size about 0.13 in diameter. Leg I femur 3.15, patella 0.76, tibia 2.98, metatarsus 2.65, tarsus 1.05. Leg formula 1243. Leg yellow, with alternating light and dark reddish shaded bands.
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="20">Variation: Total length 3.25-4.01, Cephalothorax 1.63-2.05, femur I 2.67-3.15.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="20">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="20">
Eastern Madagascan montane forest. This is the most widespread species of the Madagascar group, documented from
<normalizedToken originalValue="Périnet">Perinet</normalizedToken>
, Ambohitantely and Ranamofana, and can be expected to be found in additional montane forest reserves in eastern Madagascar.
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="20">Natural history.</paragraph>
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In Ranamofana, eight complete
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colonies along trails in the forest interior were found. We found two colonies containing one adult female and her egg case and eight colonies containing a female with a group of small juveniles, likely instars
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post egg sac. Females actively guarded their egg cases by seizing them in their chelicerae. We also noted one instance of a female feeding her young via regurgitation. Our observations indicate that
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primarily exhibits subsocial behavior, as do other members of the Madagascar group. An unidentified salticid inhabited six of the eight colonies sampled.
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