Mysmenopsis fernandoi Dupérré & Tapia, 2015

Dupérré, Nadine & Tapia, Elicio, 2020, Megadiverse Ecuador: a review of Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) of Ecuador, with the description of twenty-one new kleptoparasitic spider species, Zootaxa 4761 (1), pp. 1-81 : 69

Mysmenopsis fernandoi Dupérré & Tapia, 2015

Figs 230, 231 , Map 1 (inverse green triangle).

Material examined. Ecuador: Pichincha Province: Communidad de Junin (-00.28879 -7855665) 1285m, 8♂ 10♀, in Linothele sp. web., 4 Apr. 2016, E.E. Tapia ( ZMH-A0001551 , ZMH-A0001578 , ZMH-A0001580 ) .

Distribution. Ecuador, Cotopaxi, Pichincha and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Provinces.

Natural history. The specimens were collected in a Linothele sp. web at 1285m in an evergreen low mountain forest of the western Andes (BsBn04) ( Iglesis, Santiana & Chinchero, 2013). The species inhabit the Andean ecoregion, it lives in sympatry with M. junin n. sp. in Imbabura Province, and in sympatry with M. chiquita in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas and with M. onorei in the Cotopaxi Province ( Dupérré & Tapia 2015).

Figures

FIGURES 230–233. 230, 231. Mysmenopsis fernandoi Dupérré & Tapia 2015, 230, Epigynum dorsal view. 231, Internal genitalia, posterior view, 232, Mysmenopsis otonga Dupérré & Tapia 2015, epigynum dorsal view. 233, Mysmenopsis otokiki n. sp. female metatarsus I, prolateral view (arrow points to short spines).