Titanattus euryphaessa, Bustamante & Ruiz, 2017

Bustamante, Abel A. & Ruiz, Gustavo R. S., 2017, Systematics of Thiodinini (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species, Zootaxa 4362 (3), pp. 301-347 : 341-343

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.3.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6028245

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B7899BC-2C40-41B4-BA4B-EFD74C567404

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Titanattus euryphaessa
status

sp. nov.

Titanattus euryphaessa View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 8L View FIGURE 8 , 30 View FIGURE 30

Note. This species is mentioned as “ Titanattus sp. B” in Ruiz & Maddison (2015). Type material. Male holotype ( MPEG 34603 View Materials ) from Várzea Piranha (02°12'36.1"S, 56°07'20.7"W), Juruti, Pará, Brazil, 05.VIII.2010, N.C. Bastos leg. GoogleMaps

Additional material examined. ECUADOR: Napo: Estación Biológica Jatun Sacha (1.067°S, 77.617°W), 400 m elev.: 1♂ (MRB030), 21–24.VII.2004, Maddison, Agnarsson, Iturralde & Salazar leg. (UBC-SEM); 1♂ (d170) (UBC-SEM). GoogleMaps

Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition in reference to Euryphaessa (also known as Theia, Théa or Thia), the Titaness of sight and the shining light of the clear blue sky.

Diagnosis. Males differ from those of the other species of this genus by having a robust, hooked embolus ( Fig. 30D View FIGURE 30 ).

Description. Male (holotype). Total length: 3.65. Carapace 1.61 long, 1.27 wide, 1.04 high. Ocular quadrangle 1.00 long. Anterior and posterior eye row 1.04 wide. Chelicera paturon with three promarginal teeth and four retromarginal teeth. Length of femur: I 1.21, II 1.04, III 0.94, IV 1.15; patella + tibia: I 1.69, II 1.32, III 1.15, IV 1.38; metatarsus + tarsus: I 1.17, II 1.04, III 1.15, IV 1.32. Leg formula: 1 423. Leg spination: femur I d1- 1-1, p1di, r0; II d1-1-1, p1di, r1di (r0 right); III‒IV d1-1-1, p1di, r1di; patella I 0; II‒III p1, r0; IV p1, r0 (p0, r1 right); tibia I p1di, r0, v2 a-0-2a-2; II p1di, r0, v1 r-2a-2; III p0-1-0, r0-1-0, v1 pdi; IV p0-1-0, r0-1-0, v2 di; metatarsus I‒II v2-2; III p2di, r0, v0; IV p2di (p1di right), r1di, v0. Palp ( Figs 30D‒30G View FIGURE 30 ): tibia wider than long; RTA triangular; RvTA poorly developed; short embolus with a robust base. Color in alcohol: carapace dark brown, abdomen white with a dark marking centrally on the dorsum; venter pale. Legs with striped pattern ( Figs 30A‒ 30C View FIGURE 30 ).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Known from Brazil and Ecuador.

Natural history. The specimens from Ecuador were collected associated to disturbed areas.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Titanattus

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