Cicurina (Cicurella) vespera Gertsch 1992

Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, Zootaxa 2002, pp. 1-67 : 53

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Cicurina (Cicurella) vespera Gertsch 1992 View in CoL

( Figs 118–119, 134)

Cicurina vespera Gertsch 1992: 111 View in CoL , figs 93–94 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162, 171; Cokendolpher 2004a: 19–20, 24, 27, 34, 41, 47–48, 53, 57 figs 65–66; Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3239, 3241, 3243–3249, 3254; Reddell & Cokendolpher 2004: 81.

HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Bexar County, Government Canyon Bat Cave , 5 miles SW of Helotes, August 11 1965, J. Reddell, J. Fish ”. Examined ( AMNH).

Description. Female holotype

Total length: 2.48; carapace length: 0.81; carapace width: 0.59; opisthosoma length: 1.68. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 4 denticles (2 large, 2 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 2.58; femur: 0.78; patella: 0.28; tibia: 0.60; metatarsus: 0.50; tarsus: 0.43; leg IV: total length: 2.82; femur: 0.78; patella: 0.29; tibia: 0.62; metatarsus: 0.65; tarsus: 0.48. Tarsal claw IV: 0.06. Epigynum: 0.175 (half size). Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit; bursa enlarged; copulatory ducts, reaching slightly over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located medially; primary pores not visible; stalk short, straight, obliquely directed, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe ear- shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, externally positioned from the dictynoid pore.

Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Government Canyon Bat Cave (Bexar County, Texas, Fig. 134).

Remarks. Male unknown. The holotype identification label was “ Cicurina verpsera ”. This misspelling was corrected in Gertsch (1992). The description of the epigynum is incomplete because the epigynum is heavily damaged. This species is included on the U.S. Federal list of endangered species ( Longacre 2000).

References

Cokendolpher, J. C. (2004 a) Cicurina spiders from caves in Bexar County, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs, 6. Studies on the cave and endogean fauna of North America, 4, 13 - 58.

Gertsch, W. J. (1992). Distribution patterns and speciation in North American cave spiders with a list of the troglobites and revision of the cicurinas of the subgenus Cicurella. Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs, 3. Studies on the endogean fauna of North America. 2, 75 - 122.

Jackman, J. A. (1997) A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Houston, Texas: Gulf Publishing Company. xiv + 201 pp. + 32 plates.

Longacre, C. (2000) Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 50 CFR part 17, RIN 1018 - AF 33. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; final rule to list nine Bexar County, Texas Invertebrate species as endangered. Federal Register, 65 (248), 81419 - 81433.

Paquin, P., & Hedin, M. (2004) The power and perils of ' molecular taxonomy': a case study of eyeless and endangered relatives. Report to Fish and Wildlife Services (Austin, Texas, U. S. A). 1 - 40 p.

Reddell, J. R. & Cokendolpher, J. C. (2004) The cave spiders (Araneae) of Bexar and Comal counties, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs, 6. Studies on the cave and endogean fauna of North America, IV, 75 - 94.