Gelanor moyobamba, Ligia R. Benavides & Gustavo Hormiga, 2016

Ligia R. Benavides & Gustavo Hormiga, 2016, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical pirate spiders of the genus Gelanor Thorell, 1869 (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 4064 (1), pp. 1-72 : 52

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4064.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BEC06753-A9D1-4EDF-8537-D67AF2F94942

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6075778

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/463E87DA-FFC1-2E44-B48C-1804FB8E919C

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scientific name

Gelanor moyobamba
status

sp. nov.

Gelanor moyobamba View in CoL new species

( Figs. 43 View FIGURE 43 , 48 View FIGURE 48 )

Type. Male holotype, PERU, 20 mi SE Moyobamba , Dpto. San Martin, 1–30.vi.1947, Felix Woytkowski leg. ( AMNH).

Additional material examined. None.

Etymology. The species epithet is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

Diagnosis. Males of Gelanor moyobamba n. sp. can be distinguished from other Gelanor species by the angular edge of the cymbial flap ( Figs. 43 View FIGURE 43 F, H). Females are unknown.

Description. Male holotype. Habitus as in Figs. 43 View FIGURE 43 A–D. Total length 4.71. Carapace light orange; Cephalothorax 2.53 long, 1.88 wide, 1.11 high. Abdomen 2.18 long, 1.88 wide, 1.61 high. Sternum light yellow, 1.22 long, 0.94 wide. Labium 0.36 long, 0.29 wide; light orange. Clypeus 0.13 high; AME interdistance 0.16; PME interdistance 0.09; PME–AME distance 0.13; AME–ALE distance 0.16; PME–PLE distance 0.26. Chelicerae light yellow; ChL 0.92; ChW1 0.40; ChW2 0.39. Cymbium wider than long (0.54 long, 0.72 wide). Cymbial flap with the top edge flat and the distal edge in an angle ( Figs. 43 View FIGURE 43 F, H). Female unknown.

Variation. Unknown, only one adult male available for study.

Distribution. Only known from its type locality in San Martín, Peru ( Fig.48 View FIGURE 48 ).

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Mimetidae

Genus

Gelanor

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