Loxosceles vicentei Taucare-Ríos, Brescovit & Villablanca, 2022

Fig. 9

Loxosceles vicentei Taucare-Ríos, Brescovit & Villablanca, 2022: 158, figs 1 A – B, 2 A – D, 4 A – B.

Holotype (not examined).

Chile • 1 ♂; Coquimbo, Elqui Prov., Vicuña, Fondo El Calvario, near Juntas del Toro, 29 ° 58 ' 30.97 " S, 70 ° 6 ' 11.86 " W, 2050 m. a. s. l., 14 Oct. 2021, V Villablanca Miranda, J Villablanca Rivera & A Taucare-Ríos leg.; Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile, MNNC 8371.

New record.

Chile • 1 ♂; Atacama, Prov. Huasco, Boquerón Chañar; Algarrobal; 992 m. a. s. l., (28.3708 ° S, 70.4128 ° W); 24–25 Nov. 2022; J Pizarro-Araya, FM Alfaro, JE Barriga, AA Ojanguren-Affilastro, HA Iuri & JE Calderón leg.; IFM- 2579; MACN - Ar 44128 .

Remarks.

The new record is about 183 km north of the type locality of L. vicentei, but within the distribution of this species presented by Taucare-Ríos et al. (2022). The embolic keel we observed in our specimens (Fig. 9, arrows) was not mentioned in the original description of the species but can nonetheless be seen in their figures (Taucare-Ríos et al. 2022, fig. 2 A). The holotype has a slightly longer embolus and a seemingly larger keel; a larger series of specimens must be examined to evaluate the significance of these morphological differences. The presence of an embolic keel, allied with the digitiform median receptacles of the female (Taucare-Ríos et al. 2022, fig. 2 D), hints that L. vicentei belongs in the spadicea species group, rather than in the laeta species group. Taucare-Ríos et al. (2022) present a map with four records, but their list of material examined indicated only three localities; the fourth record had been included by mistake (A. Taucare-Ríos, in litt.), and thus, we omit it in our map.

Habitat.

See remarks under L. vallenar above.