Anapisona ashmolei, Platnick, N. I & M. U. Shadab, 1979

Platnick, N. I & M. U. Shadab, 1979, A review of the spider genera Anapisona and Psudanapis, American Museum Novitates 2672, pp. 1-20 : 9-10

publication ID

PlatnickShadab1979b

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6282858

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/14742A58-A731-0413-08A5-1B5BAE63A540

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Donat

scientific name

Anapisona ashmolei
status

new species

Anapisona ashmolei View in CoL , new species Figures 19,32, 33

Types: Male holotype and female paratype taken on a rock in the terminal sump of the main cave at Los Tayos, latitude 3°10' S, longitude 78°12' W, Morona-Santiago,Ecuador (July 12,1976; N. P. Ashmole), deposited in AMNH courtesy of Dr. Ashmole.

Etymology: Named for the collector of the type specimens.

Diagnosis: Males of A. ashmolei may be recognized by the three bristles on the cymbial extension (fig. 19),females by the long epigynal openings and moderately coiled ducts (figs. 32,33).

Male: Total length 1.98. Carapace 0.90 long, 0.79 wide, 0.43 high. Abdomen 1.15 long, 1.12 wide. Pars cephalica and margins of pars thoracica brownish orange, remainder of pars thoracica dark brown. Sternum uniformly orange. Clypeal height more than three times the anterior lateral eye diameter. Posterior median eyes separated by twice their diameter from posterior laterals. Legs, setae, and tarsal claws elongated. Tibia I with one or two prolateroventral cusps at middle.

Embolus with three coils; cymbial extension with one thin subterminal and two thick terminal bristles (fig. 19).

Female: Total Length 1.94. Carapace 0.86 long, 0.61 wide, 0.46 high. Abdomen 1.22 long, 1.26 wide. Sternum with pale margins.

Clypeal height more than twice the anterior lateral eye diameter. Posterior median eyes separated by 1.5 times their diameter from posterior laterals. Tibia I with or without prolateroventral cusp at middle; metatarsus I with median and two distal, median and one distal, or only distal cusps.

Epigynal openings long (fig. 32); posterior portion of ducts transverse (fig. 33).

Material Examined: Ecuador: Morona-Santiago: Los Tayos, on wet wall of main cave, July 12,1976 (N. P. Ashmole, NPA), 1S; bottom of second (80,) pitch of Commando Cave, July 10,1976 (N. P. Ashmole, NPA), IS, 1$; 200 feet deep in Commando Cave, July 23, 1976 (N. P. Ashmole, NPA), 1$; July 10,1976 (G. T. Jefferson, NPA), 2$.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Anapidae

Genus

Anapisona

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