Ochyrocera otonga, Dupérré, Nadine, 2015

Dupérré, Nadine, 2015, Descriptions of twelve new species of ochyroceratids (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from mainland Ecuador, Zootaxa 3956 (4), pp. 451-475 : 469-470

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:078D1D20-0232-4CA0-B003-2D830F6B39BB
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6102940
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/050DFB71-E47E-FFA1-FF94-91C1CA0DFEBA
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Ochyrocera otonga
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Ochyrocera otonga View in CoL new species

Figs 42–44 View FIGURES 42 – 44 , map 1.

Type material. Male holotype from Ecuador, Cotopaxi Province, Otonga Biological Reserve (00.42261°S 79.5107°W), 1888m, pitfall, 03–16 August 2014, N. Dupérré, E. Tapia ( QCAZ).

Other material examined. None.

Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality, Otonga Biological Reserve.

Diagnosis. Males are distinguished from all Ochyrocera by their medially twisted embolus ( Fig. 43 View FIGURES 42 – 44 ).

Description (damaged from exposition to pitfall preservation chemical): Male: Total length: 1.7; carapace length: 0.7; carapace width: 0.6. PROSOMA: Carapace pyriform, narrowing abruptly anteriorly; shiny, light yellow with purple median band and laterals bands; pars cephalica slightly elevated; fovea not visible. Sternum whitish; as long as wide; with extremely long setae. Endites whitish; labium whitish; notch. Clypeus sloping with purple band medially; high (4x PME). Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with three widely spaced teeth, followed by a series of five teeth attached to the lamina; retromargin without denticles ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 42 – 44 ). EYES: Six eyes of about equal size; PME rounded, contiguous; PME-ALE slightly separated; ALE rounded contiguous with PLE; PLE rounded. OPISTHOSOMA: Oval (damaged). LEGS: All legs missing. GENITALIA: Palpal femur long, purple apically ( Fig. 43 View FIGURES 42 – 44 ); palpal patella purple; palpal tibia not narrow basally; with two dorsal, one retrolateral trichobothria ( Figs 42, 43 View FIGURES 42 – 44 ). Cymbium conical with squared extension prolaterally ( Fig. 43 View FIGURES 42 – 44 ); retrolateral apophysis elongated bearing cuspule at its apical end ( Fig. 42 View FIGURES 42 – 44 ). Bulb oval ( Fig. 42 View FIGURES 42 – 44 ). Embolus elongated, projecting forward, widest basally, twisted medially, black and pointed apically ( Fig. 42 View FIGURES 42 – 44 ); sperm duct narrowing 1/2 from beginning to the tip of embolus without loop ( Figs 42, 43 View FIGURES 42 – 44 ).