Sidymella kolpogaster Lise, 1973

Machado, Miguel, Guzati, Catherine, Viecelli, Rafaela, Molina-Gomez, Diana & Augusto Teixeira, Renato, 2019, A taxonomic review of the crab spider genus Sidymella (Araneae, Thomisidae) in the Neotropics, Zoosystematics and Evolution 95 (2), pp. 319-344 : 319

Sidymella kolpogaster Lise, 1973 Figures 2C, 3C, 8, 9

Sidyma kolpogaster Lise, 1973: 5, figs 5‒9 (♀); Lise 1981: 130, figs 1‒12 (♂,♀).

Sidymella kolpogaster : Brignoli, 1983: 605.

Type material.

Holotype ♀, BRAZIL: Paraná, Rio Negro, Franciscanos leg. (MNRJ 58065, examined; lost in the fire of the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro). Neotype ♀, BRAZIL: Paraná, Curitiba (Parque Barigui), 25°25'12"S, 49°18'21"W, A.B. Bonaldo leg., 01.xii.1990 (MCN 20622, designated here).

Other material examined.

BRAZIL: 1♀, Paraná, Rio Negro, 26°05'11"S, 49°46'47"W (MNRJ 58065); 1♂, Santa Catarina, Rancho Queimado, 27°40'22"S, 49°01'19"W, 09-13.x.1995, A.A. Lise, A. Braul & M. Silveira leg. (MCTP 7009); 1♀, Rio Grande do Sul, Estrela Velha, 29°15'19"S, 53°13'36"W, 21.x.1998, A.B. Bonaldo leg. (MCN 30791); 1j, Arroio do Tigre ( Itaúba), 29°16'47"S, 53°06'34"W, 18.iv.1978, A.A. Lise leg. (MCN 8047); 1j, Arroio do Tigre, 29°19'58"S, 53°05'34"W, 23.iv.1978 (MCN 8150); 1♀, São Francisco de Paula, 29°24'52"S, 50°15'24"W, 20.ix.1998, A.A. Lise leg. (MCTP 14446); 1j, same locality, 21-24.iii.1995, same collector (MCTP 12010); 1j, Montenegro, 29°41'20"S, 51°27'39"W, 20.xii.1977, A.A. Lise leg. (MCN 7613); 1♂, 1♀, Glorinha ( Rincão São João), 29°49'00"S, 50°50'00"W, 14.vii.2000, A.B. Bonaldo leg. (MCN 33053); 1♂, Triunfo (Parque Copesul de Proteção Ambiental), 29°51'57"S, 51°21'54"W, 01.ix.2008, E.N.L. Rodrigues leg. (MCN 45434); 1♀, Triunfo (Parque Braskem), 29°51'57"S, 51°21'54"W, 04.xii.2009, E.N.L. Rodrigues leg. (MCN 46847); 1j, Porto Alegre (Morro Santana), 30°02'34"S, 51°08'39"W, 17.v.1980, A.A. Lise leg. (MCN 9065); 1j, Viamão ( Estação Experimental Fitotécnica Águas Belas), 30°02'51"S, 51°00'53"W, 12.viii.1994, A.A. Lise leg. (MCTP 5243); 1♀, same locality, 23.ix.1994, same collector (MCTP 5498); 1♂, same locality, 06.v.1994, A.A. Lise & A. Braul leg. (MCTP 4683); 1♀, same locality, 17.i.1977, A.A. Lise leg. (MCN 4995); 1♀, Viamão, 30°04'51"S, 51°01'22"W, 14.v.2005, R. Jalisco leg. (MCTP 19737).

Diagnosis.

Females of S. kolpogaster are similar to those of S. lucida by the general shape of the spermathecae, short copulatory ducts, and femora I with two mesial macrosetae. However, females of S. kolpogaster can be easily distinguished from congeners by curved tibiae I and II, flattened prosoma, dark body colouration, varying from dark-brown to black and contrasting with their vivid yellow legs III and IV (Fig. 8A). The males can also be recognized by their body colour pattern, which is the same as in females, and by their truncated RTA fused with basal branch (Fig. 9D, F).

Description.

Female: Prosoma dark-brown, lighter on the ocular area and clypeus, covered by hyaline setae and dorsoventrally compressed (Fig. 8B). legs I and II entirely dark-brown, except for the reduced and yellowish tarsi; metatarsi I and II curved; legs III and IV entirely light-yellow (Fig. 8A). Opisthosoma dark-brown with posterior projections stout and conical. Epigynal plate wide and with short septum; copulatory ducts short and hyaline (Fig. 8 C–F).

Measurements: eyes diameters and eyes interdistances: AME 0.07, ALE 0.11, PME 0.05, PLE 0.05, AME–AME 0.17, AME–ALE 0.09, PME–PME 0.23, PME–PLE 0.19, MOQ length 0.21, MOQ width 0.15; leg formula: 1 –2–4– 3: leg I - femur 4.95/ patella 1.80/ tibiae 4.15/ metatarsus 2.95/ tarsus 0.95/ total 14.80; II - 4.45/ 1.75/ 3.20/ 2.65/ 0.85/ 12.90; III - 1.65/ 0.75/ 1.15/ 1.05/ 0.55/ 5.15; IV - 2.05/ 0.75/ 1.25/ 1.15/ 0.55/ 5.75. Total body length 7.65; prosoma 2.80 length, 2.85 wide; opisthosoma length 4.85; clypeus 0.19 height; sternum 1.21 length, 1.20 width; endites 0.68 length, 0.37 width; labium 0.41 length, 0.50 width.

Male: Prosoma and legs colouration as in female (Fig. 9A, B). Palpi with flattened cymbium and dorsal trichobohtria on tibiae; tegulum discoid and embolus thin, slightly curved at the tip and emerging from tegulum at four o’clock (Fig. 9 C–F).

Measurements: eyes diameters and eyes interdistances: AME 0.03, ALE 0.05, PME 0.03, PLE 0.05, AME–AME 0.11, AME–ALE 0.05, PME–PME 0.09, PME–PLE 0.09, MOQ length 0.21, MOQ width 0.11; leg formula: 1 –2–4– 3: leg I - femur 2.04/ patella 0.68/ tibiae 1.68/ metatarsus 1.56/ tarsus 0.60/ total 6.56; II - 1.64/ 0.36/ 1.44/ 1.20/ 0.52/ 5.16; III - 0.72/ 0.36/ 0.52/ 0.52/ 0.32/ 2.44; IV - 0.92/ 0.32/ 0.76/ 0.48/ 0.36/ 2.84. Total body length 3.12; prosoma 1.40 length, 1.32 wide; opisthosoma length 1.72; clypeus 0.07 height; sternum 0.64 length, 0.68 width; endites 0.27 length, 0.32 width; labium 0.13 length, 0.25 width.

Distribution.

BRAZIL: Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina (Fig. 17).