Apopyllus malleco Platnick & Shadab, 1984

Azevedo, Guilherme H. F., Ott, Ricardo, Griswold, Charles E. & Santos, Adalberto J., 2016, A taxonomic revision of the ground spiders of the genus Apopyllus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), Zootaxa 4178 (3), pp. 301-327 : 309

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Apopyllus malleco Platnick & Shadab, 1984 View in CoL

Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 A–B, 10C, 11C, 12C, 13C, 14B

Apopyllus malleco Platnick & Shadab, 1984: 6 View in CoL , figs 7–8. Female holotype from 10 km west of Collipulli, Malleco View in CoL , Chile (38º21’33”S, 72º38’20”W), 4.I.1961, J. K. Greer coll., deposited in AMNH (examined). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Females can be distinguished by the sinuous anterior ridge of the epigynum and the ACT with a single coil ( Figs 10 View FIGURE 10 C, 11C, 12C, 13C).

Description. See Platnick & Shadab (1984).

Material examined. Only the holotype.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality, Malleco , Chile ( Fig. 14 View FIGURE 14 B).

References

Platnick, N. I. & Shadab, M. U. (1984) A revision of the neotropical spiders of the genus Apopyllus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates, 2788, 1 - 9.

FIGURE 1. Genital Morphology of Apopyllus. A, B A. malleco female; C, D A silvestrii male. A Vulva, dorsal view. B Epigynum, ventral view. Vulva can be seen by transparency. C Male palp, ventral view. D Male palp, retrolateral view. Abbreviations: ACT: anterior curled tracts, AR: anterior ridge, CI: cymbial incision, CP: cymbial projection, Cy: cymbium, E: embolus, FD: fertilization duct, LAT: lateral ascendant tract, LDT: lateral descendant tract, LL: lateral loop, MA: median apophysis, MTE: membranous tegular extension, PAT: paramedian ascendant tract, PDT: paramedian descendant tract, PP: paramedian pockets, PPD: proximal part of copulatory duct, PS: primary spermathecae, RTA: retrolateral tibial apophysis, SS: secondary spermathecae, ST: subtegulum, T: tegulum, TPD: terminal part of copulatory duct. (Many of the abbreviations are not present in this plate, but present in other plates, as Fig. 2)

FIGURE 10. Apopyllus spp., epigynum, ventral view, drawings. Vulva can be seen by transparency. A A. silvestrii (MCTP 26293). B A. suavis (MNRJ 58361). C A. malleco (AMNH). D A. huanuco (AMNH). E A. now (MCZ 24971). F A. gandarela new. sp. (UFMG 16876). G A. centralis new sp. (UFMG 4564). H A. atlanticus new sp. (MCTP 27338).