Ciniflella lutea Mello-Leitão, 1921

Figs 2, 26C–D, 27

Ciniflella lutea Mello-Leitão, 1921: 179 (female holotype from Nitheroy (currently Niterói [-22.89° -43.10°]), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, no coll., no date (MNRJ 939, MLPC 392, examined, not lost in the 2018 fire); Lehtinen 1967: 223.

Altellopsis luteus Mello-Leitão, 1924: 275 (female holotype MLPC 392, same as in Ciniflella lutea). First synonymized by Roewer, 1955: 1304.

Paraltellopsis luteus: Mello-Leitão 1925: 455. First synonymized by Roewer 1955: 1304.

Diagnosis. The female can be distinguished from those of other Ciniflella species by the large median plate of the epigyne with acute lateral projections (Figs 2D, 26C).

Note. This species has been described twice from the same specimen, as Ciniflella lutea Mello-Leitão, 1921 and Altellopsis luteus Mello-Leitão, 1924 (see also Moreira et al. 2010), hence these names are objective synonyms, as well as Paraltellopsis luteus (Mello-Leitão, 1925) . The labels with the holotype read “ Altellopsis lutea Typus / Nitheroy”, “939” (Fig. 2C).

Description. Male. Unknown.

Female (holotype). Specimen dried, carapace and legs yellowish brown, sternum cream. Opisthosoma yellowish gray (Fig. 2A). Total length 4.2. Carapace 2.0 long, 1.3 wide. Clypeus 0.08 high. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.08, ALE 0.10, PME 0.10, PLE 0.10, AME–AME 0.05, AME–ALE 0.10, PME–PME 0.05, PME–PLE 0.10, ALE–PLE 0.03, AME–PME 0.08. Leg measurements: I: femur 1.4/ patella 0.7/ tibia 1.3/ metatarsus 1.1/ tarsus 0.6/ total 5.1; II: 1.3/0.6/1.1/1.0/0.6/4.6; III: 1.3/0.5/0.8/1.2/0.5/4.3; IV: 1.7/0.7/1.3/1.8/0.7/6.2. Leg formula: 4123. Leg spination follows the genus pattern. Epigyne: median plate large, rhomboidal, with acute lateral projections (Figs 2D–E, 26C); copulatory ducts short, spermathecae simple (Figs. 2D–E, 26D).

Other material examined. None.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality, in Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil (Fig. 27).