Syspira alayoni, Sánchez-Ruiz & Santos & Brescovit & Bonaldo, 2020

Sánchez-Ruiz, Alexander, Santos, Gabriel De Los, Brescovit, Antonio D. & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2020, The genus Syspira Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Miturgidae) from Hispaniola, with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4894 (3), pp. 413-431 : 417-418

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.3.7
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:37DC47AA-45C7-4729-A28F-5539FD26F21B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4331420
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F9306A-972C-FFC9-FF1F-FA330D3DFD91
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Syspira alayoni
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Syspira alayoni View in CoL species nova

Figures 3A – C View FIGURE 3 , 9 View FIGURE 9 , 10C View FIGURE 10

Types. Female holotype ( MNHNSD 09.1624 View Materials ) from Loma El Curro (18°22'48.8"N – 71°01'35.2"W), 1379 m, Parque Nacional Sierra Martín García , Province Barahona, Dominican Republic, 30.V.2014, G. de los Santos. Female paratype ( MNHNSD 09.1625 View Materials ), 31.VII–02.VIII.2013, P. Torres & G. de los Santos, other data as holotype GoogleMaps .

Other material examined. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Province Barahona, Parque Nacional Sierra Martín García, Loma El Curro (18°22'42.2"N – 70°01'21.8"W), 1323 m, 31.V.2014, F. Paz, P. Torres & G. de los Santos, 1♀, 3 juv ( MNHNSD 09.1626 View Materials ) GoogleMaps .

Etymology. The specific name is a patronym in honor of the Cuban arachnologist Giraldo Alayón García.

Diagnosis. Females of S. alayoni sp. n. can be distinguished from other Hispaniolan species by the narrower dorsal median plate, 2.5 times longer than wide ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ); other known species have it wider, 1.5 or less times longer than wide.

Description. Male: Unknown.

Female (holotype MNHNSD 09.1624): carapace orange with the two dark-gray paramedian bands ( Fig. 10C View FIGURE 10 ). Chelicerae dark orange; labium, endites and sternum orange (dark orange towards the edges). Palp orange. Legs orange with no marked difference in the coloration of metatarsus and tarsus. Abdomen gray with three white longitudinal dorsal rows extending from the anterior part almost to the middle and then showing many white spots ( Fig. 10C View FIGURE 10 ); ventrally yellow with gray spots. Total length 7.8, carapace length 3.4, width 2.8. Eye diameters: AME 0.12, ALE 0.14, PME 0.16, PLE 0.14. Chelicerae 1.5 long, with three promarginal and two retromarginal teeth. Leg femur length: I—2.6; II—2.4; III—2.3; IV—3.0. Palp: claw with three teeth ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ); spination: patella p1; tibia p2 - 0 - 0, d0 - 0 - 1; tarsus v0 - 0 - 2 p2 - 1 - 0, r1 - 1 - 0, d1 - 0 - 0 ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ). Leg spination: I—tibia v2 - 2 - 0, p0, r0, d0; metatarsus v2 - 0 - 0, p0, r0, d0; II—tibia v1 - 1 - 2, p0, r0, d0, metatarsus v2 - 0 - 0, p0, r0, d0; III—tibia v2 - 2 - 2, p1 - 1 - 0, r1 - 1 - 0, d1 - 1 - 0, metatarsus v1 - 2 - 1, p1 - 1 - 0, r1 - 1 - 1, d2 - 2 - 2; IV—tibia v2 - 2 - 2, p1 - 1 - 0, r1 - 1 - 0, d1 - 1 - 0, metatarsus v2 - 2 - 2, p1 - 1 - 1, r1 - 1 - 0, d2 - 2 - 2. Abdomen length 3.9. Epigynum: atrium wider than long, with a long and narrow dorsal median plate ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ), with atrial lateral dorsal folds and an atrial hood not projected ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 ); anterior edges of posterior plates rounded and separated from each other ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 ); primary spermathecae coiled; secondary spermathecae globular and projected internally; fertilization ducts longer than spermathecae; L-shaped copulatory ducts ( Fig. 3A – B View FIGURE 3 ).