Fernandezina Birabén, 1951

Castro, Diogo, Baptista, Renner, Grismado, Cristian & Ramírez, Martín, 2015, New species and records of Otiothopinae from the Southern Atlantic Rainforest, with notes on the claw tufts in Fernandezina Birabén (Araneae: Palpimanidae), Zootaxa 4012 (3), pp. 465-478 : 470

Genus Fernandezina Birabén, 1951

Type species. Fernandezina pulchra Birabén, 1951 , by original designation.

Remarks. Species belonging to Fernandezina differ from other otiothopines by having an unexpanded femur I ( Figs 5 b, 5f, 7b, 7f) and by the presence of a posteriorly extended abdominal scutum on males ( Figs 5 e–g, 7e–g) ( Platnick 1975; Piacentini et al. 2013). There are currently eleven described species from Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Guyana ( Piacentini et al. 2013; Ott and Ott 2014; World Spider Catalog 2015).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Fernandezina jurubatiba sp. n., habitus and details of preserved specimens: a – d, female paratype; e – j, male holotype; a, e, dorsal views; b, f, lateral views; c, g, ventral views; d, abdominal ventral scutum; h – j, male left pedipalp; h, prolateral view; i, ventral view; j, retrolateral view.