Titiotus icenoglei, Platnick & Ubick, 2008

Platnick, Norman I. & Ubick, Darrell, 2008, A Revision of the Endemic Californian Spider Genus Titiotus Simon (Araneae, Tengellidae), American Museum Novitates 3608 (1), pp. 1-36 : 28

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0082(2008)3608[1:AROTEC]2.0.CO;2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5467538

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F87AE-FFA5-FFE3-FF0A-FC78A68E5D98

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Titiotus icenoglei
status

sp. nov.

Titiotus icenoglei View in CoL , new species

Figures 67–71 View Figs ; map 2

TYPE: Male holotype taken on the ground below a yellowish floodlight in a conifer-oak forest at an elevation of 5800 ft at Tehachapi Mountain County Park, Tehachapi Mountains , 35 ° 04.068 9 N, 118 ° 28.857 9 W, Kern Co. , California (June 26, 2004; W. Icenogle), deposited in AMNH courtesy of Mr. Icenogle .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of the collector of the type (and many other) specimens.

DIAGNOSIS: As noted above, the females here placed as T. icenoglei and T. tulare may actually be mismatched. Males of this distinctive species can easily be recognized by the short, deeply incised middle prong of the tibial apophysis (fig. 69), females by the medially expanded epigynal septum (fig. 70).

MALE: Total length 10. Coloration as in T. californicus . Leg spination: femora: I r1-2-1; II p1-2-1, r1-2-1; IV p1-2-1; tibiae I, II d1-0-1, v4-4-4, r1-1-0; metatarsi: I p1-1-0, r0-1-0; II p1-1-0, r1-1-0; III p1-2-2. Embolus prolaterally expanded at base, distally blunt; median apophysis with subdistal and retrolateral projections; middle prong of tibial apophysis very short, deeply incised, dorsal prong relatively short, blade-shaped (figs. 67–69).

FEMALE: Total length 13. Coloration as in T. californicus . Leg spination: femora: I p0-3- 1, r1-2-1; II p1-3-1, r1-1-3; III p1-2-1, r1-1-2; IV p2-2-1; tibiae: I d0-0-1, v4-4-4, r1-2-0; II d1-0-1, v4-4-4, r1-1-0; III, IV r0-1-1; metatarsi: I p0-1-0, r0-1-0; II p1-1-0, r1-1-0; III p1-2-2. Epigynal septum much narrower anteriorly and posteriorly than at midlength; posterior ducts widely separated (figs. 70, 71).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: One female taken at Bakersfield, Kern Co. in mid-June 1999 (J. Sparks, UCR).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Kern Co. (map 2).

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Zoropsidae

Genus

Titiotus

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