Curicaberis cuyutlan, Rheims, Cristina A., 2015

Rheims, Cristina A., 2015, Curicaberis, a new genus of Sparassidae from North and Central America (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparassinae), Zootaxa 4012 (3), pp. 401-446 : 419

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AC5C8A21-27D1-4D2F-B2B2-36CB1759A3F2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6092359

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Curicaberis cuyutlan
status

sp. nov.

Curicaberis cuyutlan View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 37−38, Map 2

Type material: Holotype: ♂, Cuyutlan [18°53’N, 104°03’W], Colima, Mexico, 11 January 1943, F. Bonet leg. ( AMNH).

Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

Diagnosis. Males of C. cuyutlan sp. nov. are distinguished from those of the other species of the genus by the palp with vRTA1 long and gutter-shaped and by the vRTA2 short and spike-like (Figs 37−38). Females are unknown.

Description. Male: Prosoma, chelicerae, legs and pedipalps orange-brown. Labium dark orange, distally lighter. Endites pale orange. Sternum orange with brown margins. Opisthosoma brownish-gray, dorsally with indistinct gray pattern. Total length 11.2. Prosoma: 5.2 long, 5.1 wide. Opisthosoma: 5.7 long, 4.5 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.36, 0.34, 0.26, 0.32; interdistances: 0.30, 0.14, 0.50, 0.46, 0.28, 0.20. Legs (2143): I: 26.7 (7.5, 2.9, 7.0, 7.1, 2.2); II: 29.0 (7.7, 3.0, 8.0, 8.0, 2.3); III: 20.2 (6.0, 2.4, 5.1, 5.0, 1.7); IV: 23.5 (6.8, 2.2, 6.2, 6.4, 1.9). Palp: dRTA long. Subtegulum visible at 9:30 o’clock position. Embolus with large, elongate triangular base, narrowed subdistally, arising from tegulum at 9 o’clock position. Conductor distally widened. (Figs 37−38).

Female: Unknown.

Distribution. Only known from the type locality in the state of Colima, Mexico (Map 2).

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Sparassidae

Genus

Curicaberis

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