Ochyrocera Simon, 1891

Valdez-Mondragón, Alejandro & Chamé-Vázquez, David, 2023, A new species of the spider genus Ochyrocera Simon (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Mexico, with biogeographical comments and an updated identification key for Mexican species, Zootaxa 5374 (4), pp. 552-562 : 553-554

Genus Ochyrocera Simon, 1891

Type species. Ochyrocera arietina Simon 1891, p. 566 , pl. 42, fig. 10, described ♁ and ♀, described from Cuba and St. Vincent.

Composition. Ochyrocera aragogue Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 ; O. arietina Simon, 1891 ; O. atlachnacha Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 ; O. bicolor González-Sponga, 2001 ; O. brumadinho Brescovit & Cizauskas, 2018 ; O. cachote Hormiga, Álvarez-Padilla & Benjamin, 2007 ; O. caeruleoamethystina Lopez & Lopez, 1997 ; O. callaina Dupérré, 2015 ; O. cashcatotoras Dupérré, 2015 ; O. charlotte Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 ; O. chiapas Valdez-Mondragón, 2009 ; O. coerulea (Keyserling, 1891) ; O. coffeeicola González-Sponga, 2001 ; O. cornuta Mello-Leit „o, 1944; O. corozalensis González-Sponga, 2001 ; O. diablo Pérez-González, Rubio & Ramírez, 2016 ; O. dorinha Brescovit, Zampaulo, Pedroso & Cizauskas, 2021 ; O. fagei Brignoli, 1974 ; O. formosa Gertsch, 1973 ; O. garayae Castanheira, Pérez-González, do Prado & Baptista, 2019 ; O. hamadryas Brignoli, 1978 ; O. ibitipoca Baptista, González & Tourinho, 2008 ; O. italoi Dupérré, 2015 ; O. itatinga Castanheira, Pérez-González, do Prado & Baptista, 2019 ; O. janthinipes Simon, 1893 ; O. jarocha Valdez-Mondragón, 2017 ; O. juquila Valdez-Mondragón, 2009 ; O. laracna Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 ; O. losrios Dupérré, 2015 ; O. machadoi ( Gertsch, 1977) ; O. magali Brescovit, Zampaulo, Pedroso & Cizauskas, 2021 ; O. marialuisae sp. nov.; O. minima González-Sponga, 2001 ; O. minotaure Dupérré, 2015 ; O. misspider Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 ; O. monica Brescovit, Zampaulo, Pedroso & Cizauskas, 2021 ; O. oblita Fage, 1912 ; O. otonga Dupérré, 2015 ; O. peruana Ribera, 1978 ; O. pojoj Valdez-Mondragón, 2017 ; O. quinquevittata Simon, 1891 ; O. ransfordi (Marples, 1955) ; O. rinocerotos Dupérré, 2015 ; O. ritxoco Brescovit, Zampaulo & Cizauskas, 2021 ; O. ritxoo Brescovit, Zampaulo & Cizauskas, 2021 ; O. rosinha Brescovit, Zampaulo, Pedroso & Cizauskas, 2021 ; O. sandovalae Baert, 2014 ; O. simoni O. P.-Cambridge, 1894; O. subparamera González-Sponga, 2001 ; O. thibaudi Emerit & Lopez, 1985 ; O. tinocoi Castanheira, Pérez-González, do Prado & Baptista, 2019 ; O. ungoliant Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 ; O. varys Brescovit, Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 ; O. vesiculifera Simon, 1893 ; O. viridissima Brignoli 1974 ; O. zabaleta Dupérré, 2015 ; and O. zamora Baert, 2014 .

Distribution. Mexico, Cuba, Dominic Republic, St. Vincent, Guatemala, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, and Samoa.

Diagnosis. Follows Dupérré (2015: figs 14, 20, 25, 32, 35, 38, 43, 47): “Tracheal spiracle in the middle between the epigastric fold and spinnerets. Clypeus sloping; tip of labium notched. Legs long. Male palpal tibia without apophysis; palpal cymbium with prolateral extension; male palpal cymbium conical often with apical or retrolateral apophysis with or without cuspule apically; male embolus flexed and projecting forward”. However, Pérez-González et al. (2016) stated that the prolateral extension of cymbium (also known as protruded cymbial pedestal) is a diagnostic character for Ochyroceratinae because it is also present in the genera Fageicera and Psiloochyrocera .