Curicaberis azul, Rheims, Cristina A., 2015
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.1 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AC5C8A21-27D1-4D2F-B2B2-36CB1759A3F2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6092345 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/20DD7A4C-1494-45EF-A66F-81D81C4C3C40 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:act:20DD7A4C-1494-45EF-A66F-81D81C4C3C40 |
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Curicaberis azul |
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sp. nov. |
Curicaberis azul View in CoL sp. nov.
Figs 21−22, Map 1
Type material: Holotype: ♂, Playa Azul (18°25’N, 95°04’W), Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico, 9 August 1966, J. & W. Ivie leg. ( AMNH)
Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.
Diagnosis. Males of C. azul sp. nov. are distinguished from those of the other species of the genus by the palp with vRTA1 slightly longer than half the dRTA length, gently curved, arising from the base of dRTA, and by the vRTA2 short and conical (Figs 21−22). Females are unknown.
Description. Male: Prosoma orange, brown along fovea. Chelicerae, legs and pedipalps orange. Labium orange. Endites pale orange, darker at base. Sternum orange with brown margins. Opisthosoma pale yellow; dorsally with scattered brown spots laterally on anterior half and six median brown chevrons on posterior half. Total length 10.7. Prosoma: 5.0 long, 5.1 wide. Opisthosoma: 5.0 long, 3.8 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.40, 0.36, 0.26, 0.34; interdistances: 0.28, 0.08, 0.44, 0.44, 0.24, 0.16. Legs: I: 29.7 (8.0, 2.9, 7.9, 8.2, 2.7); II: 32.4 (8.8, 3.0, 8.7, 9.2, 2.7); III: 21.1 (6.2, 2.3, 5.4, 5.4, 1.8); IV: 25.0 (7.2, 2.4, 6.4, 7.0, 2.0). Palp: dRTA short. Subtegulum hidden behind embolus base in ventral view. Embolus long subdistally narrowed and curved retrolaterally, arising from tegulum at 9 o’clock position. Conductor widened at tip. (Figs 21−22).
Female: Unknown.
Distribution. Only known from the type locality in the state of Veracruz, Mexico (Map 1).
AMNH |
American Museum of Natural History |
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