Cicurina (Cicurella) platypus Cokendolpher 2004

Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, Zootaxa 2002, pp. 1-67 : 38

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5243057
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scientific name	Cicurina (Cicurella) platypus Cokendolpher 2004
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Cicurina (Cicurella) platypus Cokendolpher 2004 View in CoL

( Figs 76–77, 134)

Cicurina platypus Cokendolpher 2004a: 18–20 View in CoL , 22, 24, 26–27, 34, 41, 51– 52, 54 (description of female). — Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3243–3245, 3247, 3253–3254; Reddell & Cokendolpher 2004: 80–81.

HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas: Bexar County: Platypus Pit. 20 March 1995. J. Reddell, M. Reyes ”. Examined ( AMNH).

Additional material examined. UNITED STATES: Bexar County: MARS Pit (Camp Bullis), 29.x.2001 (molted on the 20.v.2002, 25.xi.2002, 15.viii.2003, 04.i.2004, matured on 03.iv.2005), 1♀, J. Krejca, P. Sprouse ( TMM) .

Description. Female holotype

Total length: 5.67; carapace length: 2.70; carapace width: 1.80; opisthosoma length: 2.97. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (1 large, 2 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 7 denticles (4 large, 3 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 9.45; femur: 2.40; patella: 0.85; tibia: 2.45; metatarsus: 2.30; tarsus: 1.45; leg IV: total length: 10.65; femur: 2.65; patella: 0.85; tibia: 2.65; metatarsus: 3.05; tarsus: 1.70. Tarsal claw IV: 0.20. Epigynum: 0.462. Epigynal ventral plate with long transverse slit, bearing medial, deep, inverted V-shaped indentation; atrium rectangular, almost intruded by rounded dorsal plate, atrial aperture small; bursa enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts scarcely separated at midpoint, reaching top of primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located apically; primary pores not visible; stalk short, straight, obliquely directed, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe hat-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, externally positioned from dictynoid pore; fertilization duct internally attached to the primary lobe base.

Distribution. Known only from two caves in Bexar County (Texas): MARS Pit and Platypus Pit (type locality) ( Fig. 134).

Remarks. Male unknown. According to Cokendolpher (2004a: 52), C. bullis and C. platypus are found in sympatry in Platypus Pit.