Further discoveries on the minuscule spiders from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of seven new species of Anapis (Araneae: Anapidae) Dupérré, Nadine Tapia, Elicio Zootaxa 2018 2018-08-16 4459 3 482 506 DFRR Platnick & Shadab, 1979 Platnick & Shadab 1979 [151,671,1692,1718] Arachnida Anapidae Anapisona GBIF Animalia Araneae 17 499 Arthropoda species pecki     Typematerial.Female holotypefrom Ecuador, Pichincha Province, 20–30 km east-northeast of Alluriquin on Chiriboga road,  19.vi.1975, moss and wet forest litter taken at an elevation of 4600 feet, Berlese sample, S. Peck ( FMNH). NOT EXAMINED.   Additional material examined. ECUADOR:  Cotopaxi:OTONGA BiologicalReserve,  24.v–08.vi.2014, sifting moss, 1♀, E. Tapia, C. Tapia, N. Dupérré( ZMH);  Rio Esmeraldas(-00.4195 -78.9961) 1,717m, 08– 21.  vi.2014, 8♂ 1♀, 03–16.  viii.2014, 7♂ 12♀, 19.ix–02.  x.2014, 11♂ 7♀, 25.xi–08. xii.2014, 11♂ 6♀, pitfall, E. Tapia, C. Tapia, N. Dupérré( DTC, ZMH); (-00.41994 -79.00623) 1,997m, 24–30. v.2014, 1♀, sifting litter, Berlese, 21.vi–03. vii.2014, 4♂6♀, 16.viii–05. ix.2014, 5♂8♀, pitfall, E. Tapia, C. Tapia, N. Dupérré (QCAZ); (-00.42180 - 79.01325) 2,225m, 24.v–08. vi.2014, 6♂16♀, pitfall, E. Tapia, C. Tapia, N. Dupérré (ZMH).   Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas: LaUniÓn del Toachi, Otongachi Reserve (-00.321295 -78.95163), 900m, 1♂, E. Tapia, N. Dupérré( ZMH).   Diagnosis.Males resembles other species with coiled embolus (  A. simoni, A. kethleyiand  A. ashmolei) but can be distinguished from  A. simoniby the longer bristles extending further beyond the tip of cymbium, the inner one shorter ( Figs 44, 45), both bristles shorter in the latter species (see Platnick & Shadab 1979, fig. 16); from  A. kethleyiand  A. ashmoleiby cymbium with two subterminal bristles ( Figs 44, 45), terminal bristles in the latter two species ( Platnick & Shadab 1979, figs. 17, 19). Females may be recognized from all species by the spermathecae situated above the pedicel (see Platnick & Shadab 1979, figs 34, 35).   Description: Male: Total length: 1.23; carapace length: 0.59; carapace width: 0.49; abdomen length: 0.64; abdomen width: 0.55; clypeus height: 0.28. Cephalothorax: Carapace orange; pars cephalica reticulated with one large sulci laterally; cephalic groove inconspicuous, smooth; pars thoracica reticulated ( Fig. 60). Sternum orange, reticulated suffused with gray, longer than wide and covered with setae. Clypeus orange, reticulated. Labral spur present. Chelicerae orange, promargin with three teeth, retromargin without teeth or denticles. Eyes: 6 eyes, rounded; AME absent, ALE separated by their 3xtheir diameter, ALE-PLE contiguous, LE-PME separated by slightly more than their diameter, PME contiguous. Abdomen: Rounded, with dorsal orange scutum; soft portion whitish dorsally, laterally suffused with gray apically ( Fig. 60); spinneret scutum absent. Legs: Orange; femur I with ventral tubercles, tibiae I with one prolateral cusp, metatarsus I with two prolateral cusps and one retrolateral; metatarsus and tarsus II without cusp. Genitalia: Palpal femur with strong distal recurved apophysis; patellae with small, recurved retrolateral apophysis; palpal tibia elongated, pointed apically ( Figs 44, 45). Cymbium with two curved, subterminal stiff bristles ( Fig. 45). Embolus long, with four coils ( Fig. 44)  Female: See Platnick & Shadab 1979(p.11, figs 34, 35).  Natural History.This species was collected by pitfall trap between 900–2,225m.   Distribution. Ecuador: Pichincha, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilasand Cotopaxiprovinces. 1917413197 1975-06-19 FMNH Ecuador PicHiNcHa ProviNcE 17 499 2 PicHiNcHa ProviNcE holotype 1917413199 2014-05-24 2014-06-08 2014-05-24 ZMH E. Tapia & C. Tapia & Duperre Ecuador BioloGical 17 499 1 1 Cotopaxi 1917413194 2014-06-08 2014-10-11 2014-06-08 DTC, ZMH E. Tapia & C. Tapia & Duperre Ecuador 18 500 Rio 17 499 63 26 37 ESMEraldaS 1917413185 ZMH E. Tapia & N. Duperre Ecuador ToacHi La 18 500 1 1 Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas