Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010

Huber, Bernhard A. & Villarreal, Osvaldo, 2020, On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 718, pp. 1-317 : 189-191

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scientific name	Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010
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Treatment

Figs 677–680, 1054

Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010: 20 , pl. 5, figs 1–9.

Diagnosis

Easily distinguished from known congeners by modification of male clypeus (arrow in Fig. 679, slender process with bifid tip), by modification of male chelicerae ( Fig. 679; pair of lateral processes and distal patches of ~10–12 globular hairs on each side), and by long and distally widened ventral hinged process on procursus (arrow in Fig. 678).

Type material

VENEZUELA – Miranda • Ƌ holotype and 1 ♀ paratype, MIZA 105770 About MIZA ( MAGS 279 ), El Ávila National Park, Estación de Guardaparques ‘ La Julia’ [10.5054° N, 66.8116° W, 1140 m a.s.l.], 17 Jul. 1981 (J.A. González D.); examined GoogleMaps .

Distribution

Known from type locality only, in Venezuela , Miranda (Fig. 1054).

Natural history

According to González-Sponga (2010), the two specimens were not collected from leaves but from crevices in road cuts.

References

Gonzalez-Sponga M. A. 2010. Biodiversidad. Aracnidos de Venezuela. Redescripcion de seis generos, cinco especies y descripcion de una nueva especie de la familie Pholcidae Koch, 1850 (Araneae). Boletin de da Academia de Ciencias Fisicas, Matematicas y Naturales de Venezuela 68: 9 - 26.