Otiothops vaupes, Cala-Riquelme & Quijano-Cuervo & Sabogal-González & Agnarsson, 2018

Cala-Riquelme, Franklyn, Quijano-Cuervo, Luis, Sabogal-González, Alexander & Agnarsson, Ingi, 2018, New species of Otiothopinae (Araneae: Palpimanidae) from Colombia, Zootaxa 4442 (3), pp. 413-426 : 419-420

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.3.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C67563CF-9545-4AF0-A3AA-366338BB7F1A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5964805

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5B6787B4-FFC2-8D7E-D0D7-FE09FB6DC660

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Plazi

scientific name

Otiothops vaupes
status

sp. nov.

Otiothops vaupes View in CoL sp. n. Cala-Riquelme, Quijano-Cuervo & Agnarsson, 2018

( Figs 19–23 View FIGURES 19–23 )

Type material. Male holotype from Lago Taraira, Taraira, Vaupés, Colombia, 0.564744°S- 69.6341099°W, 1 April 2004, tropical rainforest leaf litter, J. Pinzon ( MPUJ _ ENT0058647 About ENT ) GoogleMaps . Paratype: 1 male, same data as holotype ( MPUJ _ ENT0058648.1 About ENT ) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Males of Otiothops vaupes sp. n. resemble those of species in the typicus group by the greatly inflated palpal bulb ( Figs 20–23 View FIGURES 19–23 ; see also Platnick 1975; Brescovit and Bonaldo 1993), but can be distinguished by the shape of the embolus, which is curved and widened close to the tip ( Figs. 20-23 View FIGURES 19–23 ). Females are unknown.

Etymology. This specific epithet is a noun in apposition referring to the type locality from Vaupés, Colombia.

Description. Male (holotype, MPUJ_ENT0058647): Total length 5.8. Carapace: 2.7 long, 2.0 wide (at leg II), 1.2 high (at leg II). Leg I: femur 2.1 long, 1.0 wide. Abdomen: 2.8 long, 1.8 wide, scute 0.9 long. Posterior median eyes separated by less than their own diameter. Palp: femur 0.8 long, 0.3 wide; patella 0.25 long, 0.2 wide; tibia 0.37 long, 0.34 wide; cymbium 0.82 long; embolus 0.67 long. Sclerotized portions of body dark orange; abdominal scute and unsclerotized portion of dorsal abdomen orange-brown. Palpal femur not thickened; tibia longer than wide, considerably smaller than bulb; bulb inflated; embolus longer than bulb but shorter than cymbium, slightly curved with bifurcate tip ( Figs 20–23 View FIGURES 19–23 ).

Distribution. Known only from the type locality at Taraira, Vaupés, Colombia.

Natural history. The holotype and paratype were found in leaf litter in tropical rainforest.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Palpimanidae

Genus

Otiothops

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