Kiekie garifuna, Polotow & Brescovit, 2018

Polotow, Daniele & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2018, Kiekie, a new Neotropical spider genus of Ctenidae (Cteninae, Araneae), Zootaxa 4531 (3), pp. 353-373 : 361-362

Kiekie garifuna new species

Figs 7 , 15A

Ctenus incolans: F.O. Pickard-Cambridge 1900 : figs 35–35a (misidentified).

Type material. Male holotype from Guatemala, deposited in BMNH 1901.3.3.142–143. Male paratype from Honduras, Yoro Department, Subirana (15.20, -87.44), Stadelmann coll., deposited in MCZ 79101.

Etymology. The garifuna drum is a membranophone percussion instrument from the Garifuna culture in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras.

Diagnosis. Males of Kiekie garifuna ( Fig. 7 ) can be distinguished from the remaining species of the genus by the shape of the RTA, with a large base and a flat and wide tip.

Description. Male (MCZ 79101). Total length 13.20. Carapace 7.10 long and 5.60 wide. Clypeus 0.38 high. Eye diameters: AME 0.25, ALE 0.25, PME 0.33, PLE 0.33. Leg measurements: I: femur 8.90/ patella 3.70/ tibia 9.20/ metatarsus 8.30/ tarsus 3.10/ total 33.20; II: 8.40/ 3.50/ 7.90/ 7.50/ 2.70/ 30.00; III: 7.50/ 3.20/ 6.20/ 7.20/ 2.40/ 26.50; IV: 9.40/ 3.40/ 8.50/ 10.10/ 3.40/ 34.80. Leg formula 4123. Leg spination: tibia I–II v2-2 -2-2-2, r1-1- 0, p1-1-1-0, III–IV v2-2 -2, r1-1, p1-1; metatarsus I–II v2-2 -2, r1-1-0, p-1-1-0, III v2-2 -2, r1-1-1, p1-1-1, IV v1-1 - 1-1-2, r1-1, p1-1. Palp ( Fig. 7 ): RTA with laminar apex, slightly curved forward; embolus elongated and laminar, with a large base, narrowing in the middle to the tip; median apophysis short and rounded in ventral view; conductor with narrow base and large apex, covering the tip of embolus.

Female. Unknown.

Additional material examined. None.

Distribution. Guatemala and Honduras ( Fig. 15A ).

Figures

FIGURE 7. Kiekie garifuna new species. A–B, male palp; A, ventral view; B, palpal tibia, retrolateral view. Abbreviations: C, conductor; E, embolus; MA, median apophysis; RTA, retrolateral tibial apophysis; Ti, tibia.

FIGURE 15. Maps representing part of Central America and north of South America, with collection localities of Kiekie species.