Orchestina maracay Izquierdo, 2017

Izquierdo, Matías Andrés & Ramírez, Martín J., 2017, Taxonomic Revision Of The Jumping Goblin Spiders Of The Genus Orchestina Simon, 1882, In The Americas (Araneae: Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2017 (410), pp. 1-1 : 1-

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090-410.1.1

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Orchestina maracay Izquierdo
status

sp. nov.

Orchestina maracay Izquierdo View in CoL , new species

Figures 61E View FIGURE 61 , map 7

TYPES: Female holotype from Venezuela: Aragua: Maracay, 548 m (10.246944, -67.596111), Mar. 05, 1959, A. Nadler, deposited in AMNH, PBI_OON 1666.

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

DIAGNOSIS: Females can be distinguished by the shape of the anterior receptaculum, which is straight, without lateral projections and with rounded basal portion. Additionally, the epigastric region has two depressions at the end of the epigastric furrow surrounded by sclerotized borders (fig. 61E).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 1666): CEPHALOTHO- RAX (separated from abdomen): Carapace length 0.61. Labium rectangular. ABDOMEN: Separated from prosoma, pale white. LEGS: Legs IV missing. GENITALIA: Besides diagnostic characters, external and internal pockets absent; anterior receptaculum with short anterior apodemes pointing posteriorly; posterior receptaculum absent, posterior apodeme formed by entire plate (fig. 61E).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality (map 7).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Orchestina

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