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