Priscula chejapi González-Sponga, 1999

Huber, Bernhard A. & Villarreal, Osvaldo, 2020, On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 718, pp. 1-317 : 270

Priscula chejapi González-Sponga, 1999

Figs 967–971 , 1062

Priscula chejapi González-Sponga, 1999: 132 , figs 10–19 (♂ ♀).

Misidentification

Priscula chejapi – Huber 2000: 139, figs 533–535 (♂).

Notes

We reexamined the type material: ♂ holotype, 1 ♀ paratype, MIZA 105653 (MAGS 1362), “Central Hidroelectrica General José Antonio Paez” [approximately 8.883° N, 70.635° W], 10 Jul. 1992 (A.R. Delgado de G., M. García, M.A. González S.). The palp of the holotype is shown in Figs 967–968 ; the procursus differs clearly from the figures in Huber (2000: figs 533–534), which are thus based on a misidentified specimen (of a formally undescribed species). The palp of the holotype appears identical to that of P. venezuelana Simon, 1893 . The two species are not synonymized here because the epigynum of the paratype of P. chejapi ( Figs 970–971 ) appears slightly rounder (less triangular) in ventral view and is not flanked by a pair of dark anterior sclerites like that of P. venezuelana .

Distribution

Known from type locality only, in Venezuela , Mérida (Fig. 1062).

Figures

Figs 967–968. Priscula chejapi González-Sponga, 1999; holotype from Mérida, Central Hidroelectrica General José Antonio Paez (MIZA 105653; MAGS 1362); left male pedipalp, prolateral and retrolateral views. Scale line: 1 mm.

Figs 969–971. Priscula chejapi González-Sponga, 1999; male holotype and female paratype from Mérida, Central Hidroelectrica General José Antonio Paez (MIZA 105653; MAGS 1362). 969. Male ocular area, clypeus, and chelicerae, oblique frontal view. 970–971. Epigynum, ventral and lateral views. Scale lines: 1 mm.