Theridion n. sp.

Crespo, Luis C., Boieiro, Mario, Cardoso, Pedro, Aguiar, Carlos A. S., Amorim, Isabel R., Barrinha, Carla, Borges, Paulo A. V., Menezes, Dilia, Pereira, Fernando, Rego, Carla, Ribeiro, Servio, Silva, Israel F. & Serrano, Artur R. M., 2014, Spatial distribution of Madeira Island Laurisilva endemic spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1051-1051 : 1051

Theridion n. sp.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male, 1 female; Location: locationID: 1; higherGeography: Macaronesia; continent: Europe; waterBody: Atlantic Ocean; islandGroup: Madeira archipelago; island: Madeira; country: Portugal; countryCode: PT; stateProvince: Madeira; county: Machico; locality: Funduras ; verbatimElevation: 500; decimalLatitude: 32.7493; decimalLongitude: -16.8114; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Direct sampling

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 female; Location: locationID: 2; higherGeography: Macaronesia; continent: Europe; waterBody: Atlantic Ocean; islandGroup: Madeira archipelago; island: Madeira; country: Portugal; countryCode: PT; stateProvince: Madeira; county: Machico; locality: Funduras ; verbatimElevation: 552; decimalLatitude: 32.754; decimalLongitude: -16.8099; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Direct sampling

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male; Location: locationID: 4; higherGeography: Macaronesia; continent: Europe; waterBody: Atlantic Ocean; islandGroup: Madeira archipelago; island: Madeira; country: Portugal; countryCode: PT; stateProvince: Madeira; county: Santana; locality: Faja da Nogueira - Mtdo. do Leacoque ; verbatimElevation: 630; decimalLatitude: 32.7415; decimalLongitude: -16.9161; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Direct sampling

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male; Location: locationID: 13; higherGeography: Macaronesia; continent: Europe; waterBody: Atlantic Ocean; islandGroup: Madeira archipelago; island: Madeira; country: Portugal; countryCode: PT; stateProvince: Madeira; county: Santana; locality: Ribeiro Frio - Viveiro ; verbatimElevation: 906; decimalLatitude: 32.7354; decimalLongitude: -16.8864; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Direct sampling

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 female; Location: locationID: 14; higherGeography: Macaronesia; continent: Europe; waterBody: Atlantic Ocean; islandGroup: Madeira archipelago; island: Madeira; country: Portugal; countryCode: PT; stateProvince: Madeira; county: Santana; locality: Ribeiro Frio - Cottages ; verbatimElevation: 994; decimalLatitude: 32.7319; decimalLongitude: -16.8861; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Direct sampling

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male; Location: locationID: 18; higherGeography: Macaronesia; continent: Europe; waterBody: Atlantic Ocean; islandGroup: Madeira archipelago; island: Madeira; country: Portugal; countryCode: PT; stateProvince: Madeira; county: Porto Moniz; locality: Chao da Ribeira ; verbatimElevation: 491; decimalLatitude: 32.7957; decimalLongitude: -17.1117; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Direct sampling

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 female; Location: locationID: 21; higherGeography: Macaronesia; continent: Europe; waterBody: Atlantic Ocean; islandGroup: Madeira archipelago; island: Madeira; country: Portugal; countryCode: PT; stateProvince: Madeira; county: Santana; locality: Ribeiro Bonito - Levada ; verbatimElevation: 568; decimalLatitude: 32.8047; decimalLongitude: -16.9346; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Direct sampling

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male; Location: locationID: 24; higherGeography: Macaronesia; continent: Europe; waterBody: Atlantic Ocean; islandGroup: Madeira archipelago; island: Madeira; country: Portugal; countryCode: PT; stateProvince: Madeira; county: Porto Moniz; locality: Fanal - Levada dos Cedros ; verbatimElevation: 820; decimalLatitude: 32.8259; decimalLongitude: -17.158; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Direct sampling

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male, 1 female; Location: locationID: 33; higherGeography: Macaronesia; continent: Europe; waterBody: Atlantic Ocean; islandGroup: Madeira archipelago; island: Madeira; country: Portugal; countryCode: PT; stateProvince: Madeira; county: Porto Moniz; locality: Rabacal ; verbatimElevation: 930; decimalLatitude: 32.7647; decimalLongitude: -17.1341; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Direct sampling

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: sex: 1 male; Location: locationID: 34; higherGeography: Macaronesia; continent: Europe; waterBody: Atlantic Ocean; islandGroup: Madeira archipelago; island: Madeira; country: Portugal; countryCode: PT; stateProvince: Madeira; county: Ponta do Sol; locality: Risco ; verbatimElevation: 1048; decimalLatitude: 32.7608; decimalLongitude: -17.1256; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Event: samplingProtocol: Direct sampling

Ecological interactions

Native status

SIE

Distribution

Madeira island (Fig. 5b)

Notes

This is a new species to science. It seems to be restricted to Laurisilva and is now being formally described (Van Keer, in prep.).