Envia garciai Ott & Höffer 2003

Miglio, Laura Tavares & Bonaldo, Alexandre Bragio, 2011, On a second species of Envia Ott & Höfer, 2003 (Araneae, Microstigmatidae), with notes on the sympatric type species, Zootaxa 2971, pp. 33-39 : 34

Envia garciai Ott & Höffer 2003

Figs 13, 14

Envia garciai Ott & Höfer, 2003: 374 , figs 1–21 (holotype 3 and paratype Ƥ, 2° 53’ 36"S 59° 58’ 22"W, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA) - Amazônia Ocidental, km 30, Rodovia AM-010, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil; INPA 59, 60, examined); Platnick, 2010.

Diagnosis. Males of Envia garciai differ from those of E. moleque sp. n. by the strongly developed tibial apophysis on leg I, represented by a proventral apical spine modified into a clasping spur, surrounded by a group of four to five shorter spurs ( Figs13–14 ; Ott & Höffer 2003: figs 4–5); copulatory bulb with short apical spine on globose, sculptured paraembolic apophysis (see Ott & Höffer 2003: Figs14 , 15 ). Females differ by having spermathecae with thin, elongated ducts, without well defined receptaculum (see Ott and Höffer 2003: fig. 9). Additionally, both sexes differ from the new species by the shorter posterior median spinnerets, about one third the posterior spinnerets length (see Ott & Höffer 2003: figs 1, 3).

Description. See Ott & Höffer (2003: 374)

Variation. Some males from both the type locality and UFAM Experimental Farm have only two ventral spines at the base of the apical clasping spur of the tibiae I ( Figs13, 14 ). These spines are larger than the three in the holotype of E. garciai (see Ott & Höffer, 2003: Figs4 , 5 ).

Material examined. BRAZIL. Amazonas: Manaus, BR 174, km 38, Fazenda Experimental da UFAM, 2° 39' 21,23"S 60° 4' 31,25"W, Campinarana forest, 13, 01.XI.2008 ( MPEG 15648); 1Ƥ, 06.IX.2008 ( MPEG 15649), all collected by B. Machado; Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA) - Amazônia Ocidental, 2° 53’ 36"S 59° 58’ 22"W, km 30, Rodovia AM-010, 1 3, 02.XII.1997 ( INPA 4581); 1 3, 1Ƥ e 2 j, 03–04.III.1999 ( INPA 4578); 1 3, 1Ƥ e 4 j, 01.XII.1998 ( INPA 4576); 2 3 e 3 j, 01–02.IX.1998 ( INPA 4579); 3 3 e 2 j, 03– 04.III.1999 ( INPA 4575); 9 Ƥ e 14 j, 23–24.VII.1997 ( INPA 4577), all collected by H. Höfer; Reserva Florestal Adolpho Ducke, 2 3, 2° 55’S 59° 59’W, T. Gasnier ( INPA 2199).

Figures

FIGURES 5 – 14. Envia moleque n. sp.: 5 – 9, 11, 12, male holotype; 10, female paratype (MPEG 15644). 5. Body, dorsal; 6. Chelicera, labium and endites, ventral; 7 – 9. Copulatory bulb: 7. Prolateral; 8. Ventral; 9. Retrolateral; 10. Spermathecae, dorsal; 11 – 12. Tibiae and metatarsi of left leg I: 11. Retrolateral; 12. Prolateral. Envia garciai male, (MPEG 15648): 13 – 14. Tibiae and metatarsi of left leg I: 13. Retrolateral; 14. Prolateral. Scales: 5 – 6, 11 – 14: 0, 5 mm; and 7 – 10: 0, 1 mm.

FIGURES 15 – 20. Envia moleque n. sp.: 15. Cheliceral teeth, ventral, female; 16. Cuspules of endites, ventral, male; 17. Metatarsi I, cuticle of integument, prolateral, female; 18. Tarsi I, tarsal cuticle and trichobothrium, dorsal, female; 19. Tarsi I, female; 20. Book lung aperture, ventral, female.

FIGURES 1 – 4. Envia moleque n. sp.: 1 – 2, male holotype: 1. Body, dorsal; 2. Abdomen, lateral. 3 – 4, female paratype (MPEG 15644): 3. Body, dorsal; 4. Abdomen, lateral.