Loxosceles dejagerae, Lotz, 2017
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.4.2 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:723F3227-A214-43F8-B598-CD7DFDB8B48B |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5257901 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB8670-D541-674A-FF48-FC4A509CFF3A |
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Plazi |
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Loxosceles dejagerae |
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sp. nov. |
Loxosceles dejagerae View in CoL sp. nov.
( FIGS 2 View FIGURES 1 – 18 , 21 View FIGURES 19 – 37 )
Types. SOUTH AfRIcA: WESTERN CApE PROvINcE, ♀ HOLOTYpE, GAMkASkLOOf NATURE RESERvE, 33°22’S, 21°42’E, 9.V.1996, M. dE JAGER LEG GoogleMaps . (AcAT 96/590). PARATYpES. EASTERN CApE PROvINcE, 1♂, 5♀ MIddELbURG, 31°30’S, 25°01’E, 15.III.1990, 1.III.1999, 7.II.2006, 3.III.2004, M. dE JAGER LEG GoogleMaps . (AcAT 99/69, 2007/1062) (MNBA 976, 9050, 9593); 1♀ AND 2 IMM., WILLOWMORE, UITSPAN, 33°31’S, 23°42’E, 27–28.II.2008, L.N. LOTz LEG. (NMBA 11580); NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE, 1♂, 1♀ , VICTORIA WEST, BIESjIESFONTEIN, 31°24’S, 23°07’E, 9.X.1989, R GoogleMaps . CONROY LEG., 14.X.1997, A. LEROY LEG. ( ACAT 91 /448, 2007/1620); WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE, 3♀ , GAMKASKLOOF NATURE RESERVE, DIE HEL, 33°22’S, 21°42’E, 1.VIII.2002, Z. VAN DER WALT LEG. (ACAT 2 002/20); 1♂, PRINCE ALBERT, SWARTbERG PASS, 33°21’S, 22°03’E, 24.I.2004, M. dE JAGER LEG. (NMBA 10307).
Etymology. THE SpEcIES NAME IS A MATRONYM fOR MARIE dE JAGER, cOLLEcTOR Of THE TYpE SpEcIMEN.
Diagnosis. FEMALE MOST SIMILAR TO L. simillima ( FIG. 33 View FIGURES 19 – 37 ); dIffERS fROM THIS SpEcIES IN bOTH cOpULATORY TUbES bEING WAvY. FEMALE cOpULATORY TUbES pROcEEd MEdIALLY ENdING IN SMALL ROUNd SpERMATHEcAE ( FIG. 21 View FIGURES 19 – 37 ). MALE pALpAL TIbIA ALMOST AS LONG AS cYMbIUM ANd cYMbIUM NOT MUcH LONGER THAN pULp bULb, MOST SIMILAR TO L. spinulosa ( FIG. 17 View FIGURES 1 – 18 ); dIffERING IT IN THE EMbOLUS bEING ROUNdEd ANd NOT SHARp EdGEd ON THE bASAL RIdGE ( FIG. 2 View FIGURES 1 – 18 ).
Description. Female: (N = 10): TL = 6.45 (5.1–8.7); CL = 2.80 (2.2–3.7); CW = 2.55 (2.1–3.5); CLL = 0.37 (0.30–0.45). AME-LE 0.1; LARGEST EYE dIAMETER 0.15. CARApAcE YELLOW-bROWN, dARkER pARS cEpHALIcA ANd ALONG THE EdGES; STERNUM LIGHT YELLOW-bROWN; LEGS bROWN; pALpS MOSTLY LIGHT bROWN, WITH dARkER bROWN TARSUS. AbdOMEN LIGHT YELLOW WITH bROWN MARkINGS ALONG THE SIdES ANd dOWN THE cENTERLINE. INTERNAL GENITALIA WITH TWO, SHORT, MEdIALLY pROcEEdING cOpULATORY TUbES ON EAcH SIdE, NExT TO EAcH OTHER AT THE bASE, ENdING IN SMALL SpERMATHEcAE, SLIGHTLY LARGER IN dIAMETER THAN THE TUbES ( FIG. 21 View FIGURES 19 – 37 ). LEG fORMULA IV:II:I:III. LEG MEASUREMENTS: I: fEMUR 6.9, pATELLA 1.1, TIbIA 6.8, METATARSUS 6.7, TARSUS 1.4, TOTAL 22.9; II: 7.3, 1.2, 7.5, 7.7, 1.4, 25.1; III: 6.5, 1.1, 5.8, 6.5, 1.2, 21.1; IV: 7.5, 1.1, 7.0, 8.2, 1.4, 25.2. PALp: fEMUR 1.0, pATELLA 0.4, TIbIA 0.8, cYMbIUM 1.2, TOTAL 3.4.
Male: (N = 3): TL = 4.67 (3.6–5.5); CL = 2.60 (2.0–3.2); CW = 2.53 (2.0–3.0); CLL = 0.35 (0.3–0.4). AME-LE 0.1; LARGEST EYE dIAMETER 0.2. COLOUR ANd MARkINGS AS IN fEMALE. PALpAL TIbIA ALMOST AS LONG AS cYMbIUM ANd cYMbIUM NOT MUcH LONGER THAN pULp bULb; EMbOLUS SLIGHTLY fLATTENEd, cURvEd IN A HOOk-SHApE ANd SLIGHTLY LONGER THAN bULb, WITH A ROUNdEd ANd NOT SHARp EdGEd bASAL RIdGE ( FIG. 2 View FIGURES 1 – 18 ). LEG fORMULA II:I:IV:III. LEG MEASUREMENTS: I: fEMUR 9.5, pATELLA 1.2, TIbIA 11.0, METATARSUS 11.5, TARSUS 1.7, TOTAL 34.9; II: 10.8, 1.2, 12.3, 12.9, 1.7, 38.9; III: 8.6, 1.1, 8.2, 9.8, 1.5, 29.2; IV: 9.8, 1.2, 9.6, 12.2, 1.7, 34.5. PALp: fEMUR 1.0, pATELLA 0.4, TIbIA 0.6, cYMbIUM 0.7, TOTAL 2.7.
Natural History. COLLEcTEd fROM xERIc NAMA KAROO, fROM UNdER ROckS ANd IN bUILdINGS. Distribution. SOUTHERN SOUTH AfRIcA ( FIG. 39 View FIGURES 39 ).
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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