Anapisona pecki, Platnick, N. I & M. U. Shadab, 1979

Platnick, N. I & M. U. Shadab, 1979, A review of the spider genera Anapisona and Psudanapis, American Museum Novitates 2672, pp. 1-20 : 11-12

publication ID

PlatnickShadab1979b

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6282860

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/449E46CD-528D-BC32-C3FA-CFC1A031C2C4

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scientific name

Anapisona pecki
status

new species

Anapisona pecki View in CoL , new species

Figures 34, 35

Type: Female holotype from Berlese sample of moss and wet forest litter taken at an elevation of 4600 feet 20-30 km. east-northeast of Alluriquin on the Chiriboga road, Pichincha, Ecuador (June 19,1975; S. Peck), deposited in FMNH.

Etymology: Named for the collector of the holotype.

Diagnosis: Females of 儿 pecki may be recognized by the spermathecae being situated above the pedicel (figs. 34, 35).

Male: Unknown.

Female: Total length 1.30. Carapace 0.54 long, 0.45 wide, 0.34 high. Abdomen 0.79 long, 0.76 wide. Carapace orange. Posterior median eyes separated by 1.5 times their diameter from posterior laterals. Metatarsus I with a distal prolateroventral cusp. Femur I without ventral tubercles.

Diagnosis: Males of A. hamigera may be recognized by the tegular apophysis (figs. 11, 20,21), females by the large spermathecae (fig. 37).

Male: Total length 1.22. Carapace 0.64 long, 0.48 wide, 0.52 high. Abdomen 0.65 long, 0.63 wide. Sternum darkest medially. Dorsal abdominal scutum invaginateci at top. Posterior median eyes separated by 1.5 times their diameter from posterior laterals.

Embolus recurved, with expanded translucent rim; tegulum with stiff ventral apophysis (figs. 11,20,21).

Female: Total length 1.58. Carapace 0.75 long, 0.50 wide,0.54 high. Abdomen 0.79 long, 0.81 wide. Sternum as in male. Posterior metatarsi darkened distally. Clypeal height twice the anterior lateral eye diameter. Metatarsus I with one or two median and one or two distal cusps.

Epigynum with triangular wings (fig. 36); spermathecae large (fig. 37).

Material Examined: British West Indies: Grenada: Chantilly, under decaying weeds on damp rock in second growth forest near stream, Mar. 14 (no collector, BMNH),\S, 19. St. Vincent (no collector, BMNH), 16, 79 (syntypes). Colombia: César: Socorpa Mission, Sierra de Perijá, elevation 1300-1400 m., beaten from dry vegetation, Aug. 1-22, 1968 (B. Malkin, AMNH), 12. Magdalena: San Pedro, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, elevation 960 m., low-medium height miscellaneous vegetation, May 19,1975 (J. A. Kochalka, JAK), 29. Valle del Canea: Anchicayá, elevation 400 m., Oct. 26,1969 (W.G. Eberhard, MCZ), lc?, 32; 28 km. E Buenaventura, elevation 50 m., second growth forest, Jan. 20, 1970 (W. G. Eberhard, MCZ), \6; Cisneros, Rio Quebrada Descansion, Sept. 15, 1969 (W. G. Eberhard, MCZ), IS. Panama: Canal Zone: Barro Colorado Island, July, 1934 (A. M. Chickering, MCZ), 19. Venezuela: no specific locality (no collector, MNHN), \6, 19.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Anapidae

Genus

Anapisona

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