Curicaberis catarinas, Rheims, Cristina A., 2015

Rheims, Cristina A., 2015, Curicaberis, a new genus of Sparassidae from North and Central America (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparassinae), Zootaxa 4012 (3), pp. 401-446 : 414

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AC5C8A21-27D1-4D2F-B2B2-36CB1759A3F2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6092351
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1023879D-FFD2-CB67-A3FB-420FFB1A65F8
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scientific name	Curicaberis catarinas
status	sp. nov.

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Curicaberis catarinas View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 25−26, Map 1

Type material: Holotype: ♀, Catarinas [26°38’N, 105°31’W], Chihuahua, Mexico, 25 July 1947, W.J. Gertsch leg. ( AMNH).

Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

Diagnosis. Females of C. catarinas sp. nov. resemble those of C. bagaces sp. nov. by the epigyne with median septum with lateral projections resembling a pair of ears (Figs 23, 25: msp). They are distinguished by the median septum having a shallow, very short median indentation and by the posterior margin of the septum not surpassing the epigastric furrow (Fig. 25). Males are unknown.

Description. Female: Prosoma orange. Cephalic region with few scattered black spots, mostly at the base of setae. Fovea slightly darker. Eye borders black. Chelicerae orange with pair of longitudinal black stripes. Legs orange, mottled with small black spots. Pedipalps orange. Sternum orange with darker margins. Endites orange, distally cream colored. Labium brown, distally cream colored. Opisthosoma yellowish cream colored. Dorsally mottled with black spots. Ventrally with few scattered black spots. Total length 15.8. Prosoma: 7.7 long, 5.0 wide. Opisthosoma: 8.3 long, 6.7 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.38, 0.35, 0.24, 0.29; interdistances: 0.27, 0.22, 0.64, 0.59, 0.40, 0.35. Legs (2143): I: 20.3 (5.8, 2.8, 4.9, 5.2, 1.6); II: 21.4 (6.1, 2.7, 5.4, 5.6, 1.6); III: 16.0 (5.2, 2.3, 3.7, 3.5, 1.3); IV: 16.7 (5.5, 2.3, 4.2, 4.7, 1.5). Epigyne: epigynal field very slightly longer than wide, roughly trapezoid. Median septum two times wider than long (Fig. 25). Vulva: copulatory ducts short, only one fourth of spermathecae length. Spermathecae large and oval. Basal part of fertilization ducts wide, slightly narrower than copulatory ducts relatively straight, distal part antero-mediad (Fig. 26).

Male: Unknown.

Distribution. Only known from the type locality in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico (Map 1).