Dipoena olivenca Levi, 1963

Rodrigues, Everton Nei Lopes, 2013, Six new species, complementary descriptions and new records from the Neotropical Region of the spider genus Dipoena (Araneae: Theridiidae), Zootaxa 3750 (1), pp. 1-25 : 14-15

Dipoena olivenca Levi, 1963

( Figures 34–36 )

Dipoena olivenca Levi, 1963: 154 , figs. 90–92 (Female holotype from São Paulo de Olivença , Amazonas, Brazil; 08.X.1946; M. de Mathan col.; deposited in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, not examined); Platnick, 2013.

Diagnosis. The male palp of Dipoena olivenca differs from other species of the genus in the median apophysis pointed and hooked ( Fig. 34 ).

Description. Male (MCN 44943): Total length 2.37. Carapace length 1.09, width 0.90. Clypeus height 0.79. Sternum length 0.50, width 0.50. Abdomen length 1.21, width 1.00, height 1.05. Leg formula I/IV/II/III; segment length (I/II/III/IV): femora 0.92/0.81/0.75/0.92; patellae + tibiae 1.00/0.90/0.81/0.94; metatarsi + tarsi 1.00/0.96/ 0.94/1.05; total 2.92/2.67/2.50/2.91. Eye diameter and interdistance: AME 0.10, ALE 0.07, PME 0.07 and PLE 0.06; AME–AME 0.05, AME–ALE 0.02, PME–PME 0.05, PME–PLE 0.09. Eyes ( Fig. 35 ) with dark borders. Carapace high ( Fig. 36 ), with grooves ( Fig. 35 ), yellow-brown, with macrosetae in median portion. Chelicerae, endites and labium yellow-brown. Sternum yellow with darkened borders. Coxae yellow, femora yellow, distally dark brown, other articles dark brown, except tarsi yellow. Abdomen dorsum ( Fig. 35 ) dark brown with some areas lacking pigment; venter yellow. Spinnerets yellow.

Female. Described by Levi (1963: 154; figs. 90–92).

Remarks. Males and females were collected together in Coari, Amazonas, Brazil.

Material examined. BRAZIL. Amazonas: Coari, Base de Operações Geólogo P. de Moura, Porto Urucu (04°51’56”S; 65°20’02”W), IX. 2006, S. C. Dias col., one male (MCN 44943); D. F. Candiani col., one female (MCN 44944).

Distribution. Brazil (Amazonas).

Figures

FIGURES 34 – 40. Dipoena olivenca Levi, 1963: (34 – 36) Male: (34) palp, ventral, (35) body, dorsal, (36) body, lateral. Dipoena esra Levi, 1963: (37 – 40) Male: (37) palp, ventral, (38) body, dorsal, (39) body, lateral, (40) leg I (MA, median apophysis; TTA, theridioid tegular apophysis). Scale bars: 0.25 mm.