Patrera perafani, Martínez & Brescovit & Villarreal & Oliveira, 2021

Martínez, Leonel, Brescovit, Antonio D., Villarreal, Eduardo & Oliveira, Luiz Fernando M., 2021, An update of morphological and distributional data of the genus Patrera Simon (Araneae: Anyphaenidae: Anyphaeninae) with the description of twenty-five new species from Colombia, Zootaxa 4914 (1), pp. 1-64 : 20-21

Patrera perafani new species

Figures 9A –G; 30

Type material. Male holotype from Mistrato, Manpay, Quebrada Sutu y Empalado (5°22′42.14″N; 75°53′14.24″W), 1830m, Risaralda, Colombia, 3.IV.1992, M. Rocha & G. Andrade leg. (ICN-Ar-10602). Paratypes: female from Mistrato , San Antonio del Chamei, Palestina (5°25′2.49″N; 75°54′10.05″W), 1150m Risaralda, Colombia, 30.III.1992, M. Rocha leg. (ICN-Ar-5429) .

Etymology. The specific epithet is a patronym in honor of Carlos Perafán, for his contributions to the taxonomic studies of Neotropical Mygalomorphae spiders.

Diagnosis. Males of Patrera perafani n. sp. resemble those of P. borjai n. sp. and P. quillacinga n. sp. by having a long embolus devoid of basal projections or denticles ( Figs 6C ̅E, 11C̅E), but differs by having longer and thin retrolateral tibial apophysis, slightly curved and apically sharp (wider and shorter in P. quillacinga and shorter and apically truncated in P. borjai ) ( Fig. 9C ̅E). Females resemble those of P. ruber and P. dimar n. sp. by the short and wide lateral borders, short copulatory ducts, and large spermathecae ( Fig. 8F ̅G; Brescovit 1997: 147, figs 55̅56), but can be diagnosed by the triangular, thin hood and rounded, small spermathecae (larger in P. ruber and P. dimar ) ( Fig. 9F ̅G).

Description. Male (Holotype, ICN-Ar-10602). Carapace yellow ( Fig. 9A). Chelicerae dark brown. Labium and endites brown. Sternum yellowish. Legs yellow, becoming darkest from tibiae to tarsi. Abdomen dorsally grayish; ventrally yellow. Spinnerets yellow ( Fig. 9A). Total length 8.54, carapace length 4.1, width 3.26, high 1.1. Clypeus height 0.15. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.12, ALE 0.26, PME 0.26, PLE 0.24; AME–AME 0.33, AME–ALE 0.45, PME–PME 0.64, PME–PLE 0.51, ALE–PLE 0.47. Chelicerae 1.54 long, four promarginal teeth, five retromarginal denticles. Leg measurements: leg I—femur 4.32/ patella 1.76/ tibia 4.78/ metatarsus 4.17/ tarsus 1.81/ total 16.82; II—4.15/ 1.63/ 4.45/ 4.07/ 2.25/ 16.57; III—3.18/ 1.29/ 2.7/ 3.17/ 1.44/ 11.8; IV—4.49/ 1.58/ 4.22/ 5.12/ 1.94/ 17.37. Leg spination II—metatarsus p1-1-0, r1-1-0; III—tibia d0-1-1, p1-0-1, r1-0-1, metatarsus v2-0-1, p1-1-2, r1-1-2; IV—metatarsus p1-2-2, r1-1-2. Abdomen: length 4.07, epigastric furrow 1.39 from tracheal spiracle, spiracle 1.57 from base of spinnerets. Palp: retrolateral tibial apophysis long, apically sharp and ventrally projected; cymbium longer than tibia; subtegulum longer than wide with the distal projection apically subrounded; tegulum longer than wide; median apophysis hook-shaped, long and medially situated; embolus long, apically filiform with narrow base and basally inserted on the tegulum ( Fig. 9 C–E).

Female (Paratype, ICN-Ar-5429). Carapace brown-reddish, with ligther margins and thoracic groove ( Fig. 9B). Chelicerae dark brown. Labium dark brown and endites brown. Sternum yellow with brownish margin. Legs with femur yellow and the rest of segments brownish, metatarsus and tarsus darkest. Abdomen dark gray lightest anteriorly; ventrally gray. Spinnerets yellow ( Fig 9B). Total length 10.84, carapace length 4.46, width 3.4, high 1.47. Clypeus height 0.19. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.11, ALE 0.19, PME 0.23, PLE 0.23; AME–AME 0.36, AME–ALE 0.46, PME–PME 0.65, PME–PLE 0.61, ALE–PLE 0.57. Chelicerae 1.76 long, four promarginal teeth, five retromarginal teeth. Leg measurements: Leg I—femur 3.6/ patella 1.67/ tibia 3.68/ metatarsus 2.75/ tarsus 1.73/ total 13.46; II—3.69/ 1.71/ 3.67/ 2.74/ 1.49/ 13.32; III—3.04/ 1.47/ 2.27/ 2.85/ 1.01/ 10.66; IV—3.88/ 1.6/ 3.51/4.2/ 1.37/ 14.57. Leg spination: I—metatarsus v2-0-0, p1-0-0, r1-0-0; II—metatarsus v2-0-0, p1-0-0, r1-0-0; III—tibia d1-0-0, p1-0-1, r1-0-1, metatarsus p1-2-2, r1-1-2; IV—tibia d1-0-0, r0-1-1, metatarsus p1-2-2, r1-1-2. Abdomen: length 6.24, epigastric furrow 1.79 from tracheal spiracle, spiracle 2.16 from base of spinnerets. Epigynum: hood triangular, thin and anteriorly elongated; lateral borders sclerotized, parallel, short, wide and apically rounded; atrial cavities short and narrow; internally with copulatory ducts long, sinuous; seminal receptacles small and posteriorly situated on the spermathecae; spermathecae small, rounded, posteromedially positioned; fertilization ducts shorter than spermathecae length ( Fig. 9 F–G).

Distribution. Only known from Risaralda department ( Fig. 30).