Ochyrocera cashcatotoras, Dupérré, Nadine, 2015

Dupérré, Nadine, 2015, Descriptions of twelve new species of ochyroceratids (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from mainland Ecuador, Zootaxa 3956 (4), pp. 451-475 : 470-472

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6102942
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/050DFB71-E47F-FFA7-FF94-9299CDBAFD5A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Ochyrocera cashcatotoras
status	sp. nov.

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Ochyrocera cashcatotoras View in CoL new species

Figs 45–47 View FIGURES 45 – 47 , map 1.

Type material. Male holotype from Ecuador, Bolívar Province, Cashca Totoras (01º 42' 24''S, 78º 58'58''W), 02– 0 6 October 2000, L. Coloma, F. Maza ( QCAZ). EXAMINED.

Other material examined. Ecuador: Bolívar Province: Cashca Totoras (01º 42' 24''S, 78º 58'58''W), 3000m, 02–06 October 2000, 3♂, L. Coloma, F. Maza ( QCAZ).

Etymology. The specific epithet is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality Cashca Totoras, Ecuador.

Diagnosis. Males are distinguished from all Ochyrocera by their unique spine-liked projection of the carapace situated between the PME ( Fig. 45 View FIGURES 45 – 47 ).

Description. Male: Total length: 1.5; carapace length: 0.7; carapace width: 0.6.

PROSOMA: Carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; shiny, greenish with blackish lateral bands and trident mark medially; pars cephalica slightly elevated; fovea not visible ( Fig. 45 View FIGURES 45 – 47 ). Sternum blackish; as long as wide. Endites light yellow apically strongly suffused with dark gray; labium strongly suffused with dark gray; notch. Clypeus sloping with dark gray band medially; high (4x AME). Chelicerae yellow-green; medially suffused with gray; promargin with a series of seven teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin without teeth. EYES: Six eyes surrounded by black pigmentation about equal size; PME rounded, separated by tubercle bearing large spine-liked projection; PME-ALE contiguous; ALE rounded contiguous with PLE; PLE rounded ( Fig. 45 View FIGURES 45 – 47 ). OPISTHOSOMA: Oval; uniformly dark blueish with a purple tinge ( Fig. 45 View FIGURES 45 – 47 ); tracheal spiracle half way between epigastric furrow and spinnerets. LEGS: Greenish; tip and base of femur suffused with dark gray; patella, tibia, metatarsus and tarsus greenish-blue; metatarsus and tarsus with white rings pigmentation appearing as pseudosegmentation: leg formula 4123; legs total length: I: 4.1; II: 4.0; III 3.2; IV: 4.2. GENITALIA: Palpal femur long; palpal patella normal; palpal tibia slightly enlarged basally; with three dorsal and two retrolateral trichobothria ( Figs 46, 47 View FIGURES 45 – 47 ). Cymbium conical with rectangular extension prolaterally ( Fig. 47 View FIGURES 45 – 47 ); retrolateral apophysis digitiform without cuspule ( Fig. 46 View FIGURES 45 – 47 ). Bulb oval ( Fig. 47 View FIGURES 45 – 47 ). Embolus very long, flexed at base and projecting forward; flagellum-shaped ( Fig. 47 View FIGURES 45 – 47 ); sperm duct 1/ 2 narrowing from beginning to the tip of embolus without loop ( Figs 46, 47 View FIGURES 45 – 47 ).