Novalena simplex (F.O. Pickard-Cambridge 1902)

Maya-Morales, Julieta & Jiménez, María Luisa, 2017, Revision of the funnel-web spider genus Novalena (Araneae: Agelenidae), Zootaxa 4262 (1), pp. 1-88 : 28-30

Novalena simplex (F.O. Pickard-Cambridge 1902)

Figures 14 , 15 ; Map 6

Agelenopsis simplex F.O. Pickard-Cambridge 1902: 336 , plate 32, figure 1 (♂) Agelena simplex Petrunkevitch 1911: 528

Rualena simplex Chamberlin & Ivie 1942: 233

Novalena simplex Maya-Morales & Jiménez 2016: 30 , figures 87–91 (♂ ♀) Type. Holotype male: GUATEMALA: no locality and date data, F. Sarg, deposited at BMNH (examined).

Diagnosis. The males of this species differs from N. shlomitae , N. cintalapa , and N. tacana in having the tegular median process with the tip of strongly sclerotized, and from N. gibarrai and N. oaxaca in having the tegular median process with flat tip ( Fig. 15 a). The females differ from N. attenuata in having the spurs closer to each other, from N. bipartita , N. shlomitae , N. gibarrai , N. irazu , and N. oaxaca in having the atrium with anterior lobes (ectal to spurs) ( Fig. 15 c), from N. laticava in having the copulatory ducts connected posteriorly to primary spermathecae ( Fig. 14 b), and from N. cintalapa , N. tacana , and N. triunfo in having the atrium with posterior margin more or less straight ( Fig. 15 c).

Description. The redescription, including measurements, provided by Maya-Morales & Jiménez (2016).

Additional material examined. MEXICO: Chiapas: Municipality of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Rancho Nuevo, 2316 m, 1.IX.1967, R.E. Leech, 1 ♀ (CASENT 9048862) ; 17 km SE San Cristóbal de las Casas , 2195 m, 15.I.1973, K.E. Lucas, 1 ♂ (CASENT 9048880) ; same data, 2 ♀ (CASENT 9048931) ; same data except 9.IX.1972, 1 ♂ (CASENT 9048882) ; 22 km E San Cristóbal de las Casas , 2133 m, 29.VIII.1976, E.S. Ross, 1 ♀ (CASENT 9048887) . GUATEMALA: El Quiché: Chichicastenango , 6–7.VII.1947, C. Vaurie and P. Vaurie, 1 ♀ ( AMNH) ; 4.83 km N Chichicastenango , 14.II.1980, V. Roth, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (CASENT 9048868).

Distribution. MEXICO: Chiapas; GUATEMALA: El Quiché (Map 6).

Figures

FIGURE 14. Novalena simplex (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge 1902) (SEM): a, c, e, male pedipalp; b, d, f, internal female genitalia. a, ventral view; b, dorsal view; c, e, retrolateral view; d, f, anterior view. Abbreviations: CD, copulatory ducts; Cd, dorsal projection of conductor; Cv, ventral projection of conductor; E, embolus; FD, fertilization ducts; MA, median apophysis; RTAd, distal projection of RTA; RTAo, dorsal projection of RTA; S 1, primary spermathecae; S 2, secondary spermathecae; T, tegulum; TMP, tegular median process.

FIGURE 15. Novalena simplex (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge 1902): a, male pedipalp, ventral view; b, same, retrolateral view; c, epigynum, ventral view; d, internal genitalia, dorsal view; e, epigynum, posterior view. Abbreviations: A, atrium; C, conductor; CD, copulatory ducts; E, embolus; FD, fertilization ducts; MA, median apophysis; RTAd, distal projection of RTA; RTAo, dorsal projection of RTA; S, spurs; S 1, primary spermathecae; S 2, secondary spermathecae; T, tegulum; TMP, tegular median process. Scale bars: a = 0.5 mm; e = 0.25 mm.