Curicaberis puebla, Rheims, Cristina A., 2015

Rheims, Cristina A., 2015, Curicaberis, a new genus of Sparassidae from North and Central America (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparassinae), Zootaxa 4012 (3), pp. 401-446 : 409-410

coil (Figs 85–86)........................................................................ C. puebla sp. nov. - Median septum short, rectangular, more than two times wider than long; fertilization ducts relatively straight with no coils (Figs 83–84)............................................................................ C. potosi sp. nov. Curicaberis abnormis ( Keyserling, 1884) comb. nov.

Map 6

Olios abnormis Keyserling, 1884: 679 , plate 21, fig. 27 (Holotype male from Punta del Agua [34°36’N, 106°17’W], New Mexico, USA, deposited in USNM, examined). Preoccupied by Blackwall 1866, sub Sparassus .

Olios naturalisticus Chamberlin, 1924: 659 , fig. 101 (Holotype female from southeastern corner of Tiburon Island [28°46’N, 112°16’W], Baja California, Mexico, deposited in CAS 1441, examined; one immature female paratype from Patos Island [48°47’N, 122°57’W], Baja California, Mexico, deposited in MCZ 1210, examined). Rheims 2010c: 534; World Spider Catalog 2015.

Olios albinus Fox, 1937: 473 , fig. 3 (Holotype female from Phoenix [33°26’N, 112°04’W], Arizona, USA, deposited in USNM). Rheims 2010c: 534 (Syn.).

Olios foxi Roewer, 1951: 477 (replacement name for O. abnormis Keyserling, 1884 , preoccupied by Blackwall 1866, sub Sparassus ). Rheims 2010c: 533.

Note. The specific name “ abnormis ” is herein reinstated following ICZN (2000, article 59.3), according to which a junior homonym, replaced before 1961, should not be rejected if the relevant taxa are no longer considered congeneric.

Additional material examined. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Arizona: 2♀, Yuma County, Yuma [32°43’N, 114°37’W], 1 April 1959, V. Roth leg. ( AMNH); 3♂, Cochise County, Portal [31°54’N, 109°08’W], 25– 30 July 1967, W.J. Gertsch leg. ( AMNH); 3♂, 1–15 July 1965, W.J. Gertsch leg. ( AMNH); MEXICO: Sonora: 2♀, Guaymas [27°59’N, 110°54’W], 25 September 1947, B. Malkin leg. ( AMNH).

Diagnosis. Males of C. abnormis comb. nov. are easily distinguished from the other species of the genus by the palp with dRTA very small with a dorsal spine-like projection, vRTA1 absent and by the massive U-shaped vRTA2 ( Rheims 2010c: 534, figs 9−10). Females resemble those of C. chamela sp. nov., C. minax sp. nov. and C. sanpedrito sp. nov. by the large rounded copulatory openings (Figs 29, 75, 89, Rheims 2010c: 534, fig. 11). They are distinguished from these species by the tear-shaped median septum ( Rheims 2010c: 534, fig. 11).

Description. See Rheims 2010c.

Distribution. Southwestern United States to northwestern Mexico (Map 6).