Paratropis Simon, 1889

Dupérré, Nadine & Tapia, Elicio, 2024, Seven new species of the enigmatic spider genus Paratropis Simon, 1889 (Mygalomorphae, Paratropididae) from Ecuador, Zootaxa 5519 (4), pp. 451-486 : 452

Genus Paratropis Simon, 1889

Type species. Paratropis scruposa Simon, 1889

Paratropis scruposa Simon, 1889: 215 (Description female).

Paratropis scrupea Simon, 1892: 78 , figs 78–79 (female).

Paratropis scruposa Raven, 1985: 122 , figs 171–178 (female).

Diagnosis. Paratropis are distinguished from Anisaspis Simon, 1892 and Anisaspoides F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 by the presence of PMS ( Fig. 1B ) absent in the latter ( Sherwood et al. 2022); from Stormtropis males by the presence of third claw on tarsi I (absent in P. minuscula ), absent in Stormtropis ( Pérafan et al. 2019) but females of Stormtropis have no distinguishable morphological characters from Paratropis .

Composition. Paratropis arenosa sp. nov., P. carcosita sp. nov., P. cryptica sp. nov., P. elicioi Dupérré, 2015 , P. esmeraldas sp. nov., P. florezi Perafán, Galvis & Pérez-Miles, 2019 , P. kapak sp. nov., P. minuscula Almeida & de Morais, 2022 , P. otonga Dupérré & Tapia, 2020 , P. papilligera F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 , P. pasochoa sp. nov., P. pristirana Dupérré & Tapia, 2020 , P. pukallucha sp. nov., P. sanguinea Mello-Leitão, 1923 , P. scruposa Simon, 1889 , P. seminermis Caporiacco, 1955 , P. tortue Sherwood, Lucas & Brescovit, 2023 and P. tuxtlensis Valdez-Mondragón, Mendoza & Francke, 2014 .

Distribution. Mexico, French Guiana, Venezuela, Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil and, Peru.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Paratropis esmeraldas sp. nov. female holotype. A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Habitus ventral view. Scale bars = 1.0 mm.