Anelosimus moramora Agnarsson, Kuntner & Jencik

Agnarsson, Ingi, Jencik, Brian B., Veve, Giselle M., Hanitriniaina, Sahondra, Agostini, Diego, Goh, Seok Ping, Pruitt, Jonathan & Kuntner, Matjaz, 2015, Systematics of the Madagascar Anelosimus spiders: remarkable local richness and endemism, and dual colonization from the Americas, ZooKeys 509, pp. 13-52 : 39-40

Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Theridiidae

Anelosimus moramora Agnarsson, Kuntner & Jencik sp. n. Fig. 16

Type material.

Holotype female from Montagne d’Ambre National Park (12.516972°S, 49.178778°E), 1005 m alt, Antsiranana district, Madagascar, 4.iv.2008, montane forest, col. Agnarsson and Kuntner, in NMNH.

Etymology.

The species epithet is a Madagascan aphorism or motto meaning 'no rush’ or 'take it easy’.

Diagnosis.

Anelosimus moramora females can be diagnosed from all other species except Anelosimus ata by the relatively small and pointy shape of the septum and from Anelosimus ata by its smaller size. Anelosimus moramora can be diagnosed from other Madagascan Anelosimus on the basis of the following unique mtDNA nucleotide substitutions at the following standard DNA barcode alignment positions (note that only a short fragment of the divergent Anelosimus moramora barcode is available starting at position 824): C (843), C (888), T (897), A (901), C (906), A (914), C (924), C (939), C (967), A (979). It can also be diagnosed from all Anelosimus except Anelosimus torfi based on A (943).

Description.

Female: Total length 3.31. Cephalothorax 1.4 long, 1.06 wide, 0.87 high, brown. Sternum 0.78 long, 0.67 wide, extending half way between coxae IV, brown. Abdomen 2.02 long, 1.6 wide, 2.26 high. Red-brown with 2 white streaks. Eyes subequal in size about 0.09 in diameter. Clypeus height about 2.5 times one AME diameter. Chelicerae with one large tooth, three denticles prolaterally. Leg I femur 1.67, patella 0.5, tibia 1.41, metatarsus 1.1, tarsus 0.65. Leg formula 1243. Legs light brown-yellow with dark brown at junctions between tibia and metatarsus, and metatarsus and tarus. 4 small trichobothria dorsally on tibiae, 3 on all metatarsi. 3-4 dorsal trichobothria on female palpal tibia.

Variation: only known from holotype.

Distribution.

Only known from type locality.

Natural history.

Unknown, predicted to be subsocial.