Anapisona aragua, Platnick, N. I & M. U. Shadab, 1979

Platnick, N. I & M. U. Shadab, 1979, A review of the spider genera Anapisona and Psudanapis, American Museum Novitates 2672, pp. 1-20 : 14-15

publication ID

PlatnickShadab1979b

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6282866

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/73DB25E9-242E-19A6-003B-8520FFF68955

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Donat

scientific name

Anapisona aragua
status

new species

Anapisona aragua View in CoL , new species

Figures 6-9,24, 25,40,41

Types: Male holotype and female paratype from Berlese sample of litter taken in a wet montane forest at an elevation of 1000-1400 m. at Rancho Grande, 15 km. north of Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela (February 9-27, 1971; S. B. Peck), deposited in MCZ.

Etymology: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

Diagnosis: Males of A. aragua may be recognized by the broad embolus (figs. 8,9,25), females by the basal epigynal ridge (figs. 40, 41).

Male: Total length 0.72. Carapace 0.36 long, 0.36 wide, 0.37 high. Abdomen 0.47 long, 0.42 wide. Sternum with median dark patch. Chelicerae and clypeus without knobs. Tibia I without cusps. Metatarsus I with pair of distal cusps.

Embolus forming a figure-8,greatly expanded, with translucent rim (figs. 8, 9,40,41).

Female: Total length 1.00. Carapace 0.40 long, 0.40 wide, 0.28 high. Abdomen 0.79 long, 0.65 wide. Sternum and chelicerae as in male. Legs without cusps.

Epigynum with basal ridge (fig. 41); ducts long, curved, bifid distally (fig. 41).

Material Examined; Five males and two females taken with the types,and one male and three females taken in a Berlese sample of forest litter at an elevation of 1000 m. at Quebrada Susumuco, 23 km. northwest of Villavicencio ,Meta, Colombia on March 5, 1972, by S. and J. Peck (FMNH).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Anapidae

Genus

Anapisona

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