Enoploctenus miserabilis ( Strand 1916 ) Strand, 1916

Dupérré, Nadine, 2015, Description of a new genus and thirteen new species of Ctenidae (Araneae, Ctenidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador, Zootaxa 4028 (4), pp. 451-484 : 476

Enoploctenus miserabilis ( Strand 1916) new comb.

Fig. 49 .

Ctenus miserabilis Strand 1916: 128 . Silva 2003: 51, f. 20f. Enoploctenus miserabilis: Polotow & Brescovit 2014: 360 .

Type material. Female holotype from Colombia ( SMF 4562), Cauca, Popayán (Konsul Lehmann). Type specimen was not examined, only the genitalia was examined from photo ( Fig. 49 ). Diagnosis. Females are distinguished from all species of the genus by their rounded spermathecae ( Fig. 49 ), from C. acanthoctenoides by their trapezoidal median sector of epigynum ( Fig. 49 ), heart-shaped in the later species ( Fig. 48 ) and from C. otongachi by their much larger size (size taken from the literature). Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Colombia: only known from the type locality.

Figures

FIGURES 48, 49. 48. Chococtenus acanthoctenoides (Schmidt 1956), female internal genitalia, dorsal view (Photo provided by Peter Jaeger). 49. Chococtenus miserabilis (Strand 1916), female internal genitalia, ventral view (Photo provided by Daniele Polotow).