Carapoia ocaina Huber, 2000

Figs 554–556

Carapoia ocaina Huber, 2000: 242, figs 19–20, 131, 179, 955–961 (♂ ♀, Peru, Brazil). Huber 2005: 555, figs 85, 86, 99. Carvalho et al. 2010: 433.

Type material. PERU: Loreto: ♂ holotype, 5♂ 8♀ paratypes, MUSM, Rio Samiria (4°43’S, 74°18’W), 21– 28.v.1990 (D. Silva “& Ernesto”).

New record. BRAZIL: Amazonas: 10♂ 2♀, ZFMK (Ar 19232), forest near Tabatinga (4.244°S, 69.92°– 69.93°W), 90 m a.s.l., 2–4.xi.2016 (B.A. Huber, L.S. Carvalho) ; 2♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (Br 16-323), same data .

Description (amendments; see Huber 2000). Tibia 1 in nine newly examined males: 10.4–12.4 (mean 11.1); in two females: 7.7, 8.3. Diameters of femora 1–4 in large male: 0.29, 0.34, 0.36, 0.32. Most males with pale reddish abdomen (in ethanol; in live orange-red; Fig. 554). Prolateral trichobothrium present on tibia 1.

Natural history. The spiders were found in strongly domed, rather small webs (diameter about 20 cm), consistently with a second, flat sheet of silk under the domed main sheet. In the lines above the domed main sheet there were sometimes Argyrodes kleptoparasites.

Distribution. Widely distributed between Manaus (Brazil) and the Peruvian Andes (Fig. 741).