Hadruroides aguilari Francke and Soleglad, 1980

Figure 1

Hadruroides aguilari Francke and Soleglad, 1980: 2–8, figs. 1, 3–20; Kovařík, 1998: 135; Sissom and Fet, 2000: 411; Fet et al., 2004: 24; Ochoa and Chaparro, 2008: 5.

TYPE MATERIAL: PERU: Lima Department: Lima Province: Holotype ♂, 2 ♀ paratypes (AMNH), Cajamarquilla (11 ° 57 ' S 76 ° 54 ' W, ca. 800 m), 3.i.1976, O.F. Francke.

DIAGNOSIS: Hadruroides aguilari appears to be most closely related to H. lunatus and H. juanchaparroi, based on the similar carination of sternite VII and metasomal segments I–IV. Haduroides aguilari may be separated from these species by the elongated metasomal segments, e.g., segment II is longer than wide and segment V (♂) approximately three times longer than wide in H. aguilari, compared with H. lunatus and H. juanchaparroi, in which segment II is as wide as long, and the length:width ratio of segment V (♂) varies from 2.04 to 2.59. Additionally, in H. lunatus and H. juanchaparroi, the pedipalp chela fixed finger of the adult male is curved, creating a distinct proximal gap with the movable finger when the fingers are closed, whereas the fixed and movable fingers of the adult male are straight, such that no proximal gap is evident when the fingers are closed, in H. aguilari .

DISTRIBUTION: This endemic Peruvian species is known only from the type series and, despite extensive searches, no additional material has been collected. The type locality is now an urban zone, close to the Peruvian capital of Lima (fig. 1), and no natural habitat remains there. However, it is possible that the species still occurs in adjacent areas of natural habitat.

ECOLOGY: According to Francke and Soleglad (1980), H. aguilari has been collected at night from the tops of terrestrial bromeliads ( Tillandsia sp., Bromeliaceae), and is sympatric with H. lunatus, found under stones and bromeliad mats.