Curicaberis puebla, 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 : 409-410

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.6092341

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1023879D-FFD7-CB63-A38D-41F2FBDB61E8

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Plazi

scientific name

Curicaberis puebla
status

 

coil (Figs 85–86)........................................................................ C. puebla View in CoL sp. nov. - Median septum short, rectangular, more than two times wider than long; fertilization ducts relatively straight with no coils (Figs 83–84)............................................................................ C. potosi sp. nov. Curicaberis abnormis ( Keyserling, 1884) comb. nov.

Map 6

Olios abnormis Keyserling, 1884: 679 , plate 21, fig. 27 (Holotype male from Punta del Agua [34°36’N, 106°17’W], New Mexico, USA, deposited in USNM, examined). Preoccupied by Blackwall 1866, sub Sparassus .

Olios naturalisticus Chamberlin, 1924: 659 , fig. 101 (Holotype female from southeastern corner of Tiburon Island [28°46’N, 112°16’W], Baja California, Mexico, deposited in CAS 1441, examined; one immature female paratype from Patos Island [48°47’N, 122°57’W], Baja California, Mexico, deposited in MCZ 1210, examined). Rheims 2010c: 534; World Spider Catalog 2015.

Olios albinus Fox, 1937: 473 , fig. 3 (Holotype female from Phoenix [33°26’N, 112°04’W], Arizona, USA, deposited in USNM). Rheims 2010c: 534 (Syn.).

Olios foxi Roewer, 1951: 477 (replacement name for O. abnormis Keyserling, 1884 , preoccupied by Blackwall 1866, sub Sparassus ). Rheims 2010c: 533.

Note. The specific name “ abnormis ” is herein reinstated following ICZN (2000, article 59.3), according to which a junior homonym, replaced before 1961, should not be rejected if the relevant taxa are no longer considered congeneric.

Additional material examined. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Arizona: 2♀, Yuma County, Yuma [32°43’N, 114°37’W], 1 April 1959, V. Roth leg. ( AMNH); 3♂, Cochise County, Portal [31°54’N, 109°08’W], 25– 30 July 1967, W.J. Gertsch leg. ( AMNH); 3♂, 1–15 July 1965, W.J. Gertsch leg. ( AMNH); MEXICO: Sonora: 2♀, Guaymas [27°59’N, 110°54’W], 25 September 1947, B. Malkin leg. ( AMNH).

Diagnosis. Males of C. abnormis comb. nov. are easily distinguished from the other species of the genus by the palp with dRTA very small with a dorsal spine-like projection, vRTA1 absent and by the massive U-shaped vRTA2 ( Rheims 2010c: 534, figs 9−10). Females resemble those of C. chamela sp. nov., C. minax sp. nov. and C. sanpedrito sp. nov. by the large rounded copulatory openings (Figs 29, 75, 89, Rheims 2010c: 534, fig. 11). They are distinguished from these species by the tear-shaped median septum ( Rheims 2010c: 534, fig. 11).

Description. See Rheims 2010c.

Distribution. Southwestern United States to northwestern Mexico (Map 6).

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Sparassidae

Genus

Curicaberis

Loc

Curicaberis puebla

Rheims, Cristina A. 2015
2015
Loc

Olios foxi

Rheims 2010: 533
Roewer 1951: 477
1951
Loc

Olios albinus

Rheims 2010: 534
Fox 1937: 473
1937
Loc

Olios naturalisticus

Rheims 2010: 534
Chamberlin 1924: 659
1924
Loc

Olios abnormis

Keyserling 1884: 679
1884
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