Spelocteniza ashmolei Gertsch, 1982

Figs 4–5, 24–25, 30

Diagnosis

Females are distinguished from those of all species by their evanescent eyes (Figs 4A, 5A), internal genitalia with two spermathecal heads on narrow bases (Fig. 5C).

Type material

Holotype ECUADOR • ♀; Morona Santiago Province, Shovel Pot Trapdoor Chamber of cave at Los Tayos; 3 ° 11′ S, 78 ° 12′ W; 26 July 1976; N.P. Ashmole leg; AMNH_IZC 00357161; AMNH.

Description

See Gertsch (1982). Gertsch stated the rastellum having six heavy, curved, socketed spines along inside half “, we observed two large spines, four smaller setae. Tarsal organ highly elevated, smooth at apex of tarsi (Figs 24D, 25A–B), leg cuticle pustulose (Fig. 25D).

Natural history

The female was collected in a trapdoor nest on the vertical silk surface on a wall (Gertsch 1982).

Distribution

Only known at the type locality in Morona Santiago.