Nops campeche Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018

Chamé-Vázquez, David & Jiménez, María-Luisa, 2024, Notes on a small caponiid spider collection (Araneae: Caponiidae) from Mexico, with the description of a new species of Aamunops Galán-Sánchez & Álvarez-Padilla, 2022, Zootaxa 5397 (2), pp. 273-282 : 281

Nops campeche Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018

Figures 41–48

Material examined. MEXICO: Campeche : Calakmul , 8 km north of Zoh Lagoon [18.593062°N, 89.417139°W], leg. C. Pozo, 22.IV.1999, 1 ♁ (ECO-CH-ARAC AA-0358) ; same data as for preceding, except Hermenegildo Galeana [18.175883°N, 89.24105°W], leg. F. Rocha, 20.I.2016, 1 ♀ (ECO-CH-ARAC AA-3509) ; same data as for preceding, except Nuevo Becal [18.609991°N, 89.302408°W], 17.I.2017, 1 imm. (ECO-CH-ARAC AA-3510) ; same data as for preceding, except Rancho El Triunfo, leg. unknow, date unknow 2019, 1 ♁ (CARCIB-Ar-4975) ; same data as for preceding, except Canasayab [19.297198°N, 90.566948°W], leg. unknow, date unknow 2019, 1 ♀ (CARCIB-Ar-4976) .

Diagnosis. According to Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit (2018) this species resembles the Panamian Nops largus Chickering, 1967 from which can be distinguished by having the posterior lateral spinneret about the same size as the posterior median, and by the anterior whitish line between two spots in the opisthosoma.

Remarks. Besides the diagnostic stated by Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit (2018), N. campeche has the embolus sinuous in ventral view ( Fig. 43 ), the embolar tip is curved in lateral view ( Figs 42, 44 ), and the same tip has two embolar extensions, whereas N. largus does not has the tip curved, nor strongly sinuous as seen ventrally, and the tip has three extensions (compare Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit 2018: figs 34B–D, 35C vs. 37C–E, 40D, Chickering 1967: fig. 13).

Natural history. The female (ECO-CH-ARAC AA-3509) and immature (ECO-CH-ARAC AA-3510) examined were found in bromeliads ( Aechmea bracteata (Sw.) Griseb. ) in a tropical rainforest.Also, the male and female from CARCIB collection (4975 and 4976) came from an unidentified bromeliads per label.

Distribution. BELIZE, COSTA RICA, and MEXICO: Campeche, Chiapas, and Tabasco ( Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit 2018).

Figures

FIGURES 33–48. 33–36. Roddenberryus sargi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1899). 37–40. R. spock Sánchez-Ruiz & Bonaldo, 2023. 41–48. Nops campeche Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit, 2018 (41–44, male; 45–48, female). 33, 37, 41, 45. Habitus, dorsal; 34, 38, 46, 47. Sternum, ventral; 35, 39. Tuberculate area and slits on anterior plate of genitalia (arrow point slits), dorsal. 36, 40, 48. Internal genitalia, digested and cleared (black arrow point tuberculate area. 42. Male palp, prolateral; 43. Same, apical; 44. Same, retrolateral. Scale bars 33–34, 37–38, 41, 45–47: 1.00 mm; 36, 40, 42–44: 0.50 mm; 48: 0.25 mm. Abbreviations: ap, anterior plate; arb, anteromedian receptacle base; Cb, cymbium; cs, chemosensory setae patch; e, embolus; ete, embolar tip extensions; lo, lobes on posterior receptaculum; pp, posterior plate; pr, posterior receptacle; Ti, tibia; ue, uterus externus.