Curicaberis tepic, 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 : 439-440

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.6092401

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1023879D-FFF9-CB4D-A3FB-4456FB7D661F

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Plazi

scientific name

Curicaberis tepic
status

sp. nov.

Curicaberis tepic View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 91−92 View FIGURES 91 − 94. 91 − 92 , Map 5

Type material: Holotype: ♀, between Tepic and Pochotitlán [21°28’N, 104°54’W], Nayarit, Mexico, 22 August 1905, P. Goldsmith leg. ( MCZ 99595).

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

Diagnosis. Females of C. tepic sp. nov. are distinguished from those of the other species of the genus by the epigyne with median septum with wide posterior border, reaching more than half the septum length, forming a roughly oval atrium, less than two times wider than long ( Fig. 91 View FIGURES 91 − 94. 91 − 92 ). Males are unknown.

Description. Female: Badly preserved specimen. Prosoma brown, darker at cephalic region and along thoracic striae. Fovea dark brown. Eye borders black. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs and pedipalps brown. Sternum orange with brown margins. Endites orange, distally pale orange. Labium brown, distally pale orange. Opisthosoma yellowish cream colored, ventrally with thick, brown, longitudinal stripe. Total length 16.0. Prosoma: 5.2 long, 6.0 wide. Opisthosoma: 10.7 long, 8.0 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.41, 0.39, 0.29, 0.38; interdistances: 0.37, 0.26, 0.70, 0.68, 0.42, 0.33. Legs (probably 2143): I: 23.6 (6.3, 3.2, 6.0, 6.0, 2.1); II: (7.2, 3.1, 6.6, 6.4, tarsus absent); III: 17.9 (5.6, 2.2, 4.4, 4.2, 1.5); IV: 20.7 (6.4, 2.4, 5.0, 5.2, 1.7). Epigyne: epigynal field rounded, slightly longer than wide. Posterior margin of median septum not surpassing epigastric furrow ( Fig. 91 View FIGURES 91 − 94. 91 − 92 ). Vulva: copulatory ducts short, slightly longer than half spermathecae length. Spermathecae, large, rounded. Basal part of fertilization ducts narrow, less than one-fourth copulatory duct width, distal part antero-laterad ( Fig. 92 View FIGURES 91 − 94. 91 − 92 ).

Male: Unknown.

Distribution. Only known from the type locality in the state of Nayarit, Mexico (Map 5).

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Sparassidae

Genus

Curicaberis

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