Soesilarishius excentricus, Ruiz, Gustavo Rodrigo Sanches, 2013

Ruiz, Gustavo Rodrigo Sanches, 2013, Nine new species of Soesilarishius from Brazil (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae), Zootaxa 3664 (4), pp. 586-600 : 594-595

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3664.4.10

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D6775596-2923-4F84-8C70-213347F27BE4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6164028

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/275C200D-FFEE-FFC8-FF4B-681EBA30A693

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Plazi

scientific name

Soesilarishius excentricus
status

sp. nov.

Soesilarishius excentricus View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 22–24 View FIGURES 19 – 24 , 32–33 View FIGURES 32 – 33

Type material: Holotype: male from Parque Nacional da Serra das Confusões (Boi), Piauí, Brazil, 9.220ºS, 43.491ºW, 9–15.XII.2010, L.S. Carvalho et al. (MPEG 20285). Paratype: 1 male, same data as holotype, CHNUFPI.

Additional material examined. BRAZIL: Piauí: Parque Nacional da Serra das Confusões (Boi, 9.220083ºS, 43.49075ºW), 9–15.XII.2010, L.S. Carvalho et al.: 19 males (MPEG 20286–20291).

Etymology. The specific epithet is a Latin adjective referring at the same time to the atypical palp for the genus and to the curling embolus, relocated on the prolateral side ( Figs 24 View FIGURES 19 – 24 , 32 View FIGURES 32 – 33 ).

Inclusion in Soesilarishius . This is a small, ground dwelling jumping spider recognized as an euophryine by the retrolateral sperm duct loop ( Fig. 33 View FIGURES 32 – 33 ). However, its generic placement is not obvious because of the atypical male palp. The species is thought to belong in Soesilarishius by the similarities with the other species, especially with S. crispiventer Ruiz, 2011 , with whom it may share the modified abdominal ventral scales (see Fig. 23 View FIGURES 19 – 24 ; compare to Ruiz, 2011, fig. 59). The elongate, clockwise curling embolus and the round tegulum could also be characters shared by these two species, although S. crispiventer has no developed tegular projection. The developed tegular projection of S. excentricus is thought to be homologous to the “distal bump” of S. minimus Ruiz, 2011 , S. lunatus Ruiz, 2011 , S. spinipes Ruiz, 2011 and the tegular “distal retrolateral projection” of S. cymbialis Ruiz, 2011 (see Ruiz, 2011, figs 2–3, 16–17, 24–25, 28–29).

Diagnosis. This species can easily be distinguished from any other known species by the male palp with a long embolus coiling on the prolateral side, and by the elongate, hook-like projection on the retrolateral tegulum ( Figs 24 View FIGURES 19 – 24 , 32–33 View FIGURES 32 – 33 ).

Description. Male holotype: Total length: 1.90. Carapace light brown, 1.09 long, 0.80 wide, 0.57 high, with cephalic region dark brown and a pair of tufts of white scales behind the posterior eyes ( Fig. 22 View FIGURES 19 – 24 ). Ocular quadrangle 0.66 long. Anterior eye row 0.87 wide and posterior 0.78 wide. Chelicera, endite, labium and sternum yellow. Palp yellow, with a simple RTA, an elongate cymbium, a globose tegulum with a retrolateral, hook-shaped projection and an elongate embolus arising at the middle of the prolateral face, curling clockwise, accompanied by a paraembolic, short, hook-shaped apophysis ( Figs 24 View FIGURES 19 – 24 , 32–33 View FIGURES 32 – 33 ). Legs 4312, yellow. Length of femur: I 0.57, II 0.52, III 0.68, IV 0.66; patella + tibia: I 0.64, II 0.52, III 0.68, IV 0.71; metatarsus + tarsus: I 0.57, II 0.52, III 0.71, IV 0.80. Spination as that described for S. crispiventer (Ruiz, 2011, fig. 64). Abdomen variegated with dark brown ( Fig. 22 View FIGURES 19 – 24 ), ventrally covered by small, rigid setae, similar to those described for S. crispiventer (Ruiz, 2011, fig. 59) ( Fig. 23 View FIGURES 19 – 24 ). Spinnerets yellow.

Female. Unknwon.

Distribution. Known only from the State of Piauí, Brazil.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Soesilarishius

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