Nerudia undetermined

Huber, Bernhard A., Meng, Guanliang, Král, Jiří, Ávila Herrera, Ivalú M., Izquierdo, Matias A. & Carvalho, Leonardo S., 2023, High and dry: integrative taxonomy of the Andean spider genus Nerudia (Araneae: Pholcidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198, pp. 534-591 : 575

NERUDIA SP. ‘ ARG 23 A’

Three species were collected in San Juan, ~ 35 km W Las Flores: N. rocio , N. ola and nine females representing a third species. These females clearly differ from the two named species at this locality by the shape of the epigynum ( Fig. 37A ; resembles N. flecha ); from N. rocio also distinguished by much shorter legs (tibia 1 length in seven females: 1.10–1.30; mean 1.21).

Material examined. ARGENTINA – San Juan: • 3 ♀♀; ~ 35 km W Las Flores ; 30.3967° S, 69.5576° W; 2910 m a.s.l.; 6 Mar. 2019; B. A. Huber and M. A. Izquierdo leg.; ZFMK Ar 23911 • 5 ♀♀, in pure ethanol (two prosomata used for molecular study); same data as preceding; ZFMK Arg 147 ; 1 ♀, with egg-sac, in pure ethanol; same data as preceding; LABRE-Ar 562 .

Figures

Figure 37. Epigyna of two formally undescribed putative species, ventral views. A, Nerudia ‘Arg23a’ from Argentina, San Juan, 35 km W Las Flores (ZFMK Ar 23911). B, N. ‘Arg163’ from Argentina, La Rioja, SE Aimogasta, ‘site 2’ (ZFMK Arg163). Scale lines: 0.2 mm.