Gelanor innominatus Chamberlin, 1916

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 : 33

Gelanor innominatus Chamberlin, 1916

( Figs. 25–26 )

Gelanor innominatum Chamberlin, 1916: 262 , pl. 20, fig. 6.

Type. Female holotype, PERU, San Miguel, 6000 feet, July 1911. Yale Peruvian Expedition ( MCZ, Examined).

Additional material examined. None.

Diagnosis. Females of Gelanor innominatus can be recognized by their rectangular epigynal septum ( Fig. 25 G) and diamond-like abdomen shape (shared with G. altithorax ). Males are unknown.

Description. Female holotype. Habitus as in Figs. 25 A–E. Total length 5.25. Cephalothorax 2.71 long, 2.08 wide, 1.08 high; abdomen 2.54 long, 3.08 wide, 1.35 high. The entire specimen is brown; the original pigmentation has presumably faded. Sternum 1.55 long, 1.08 wide. Labium 0.29 long, 0.42 wide. Clypeus 0.14 high. AME interdistance 0.17; PME inter-distance 0.1; PME–AME distance 0.17; AME–ALE distance 0.29; PME–PLE distance 0.39. Chelicerae dark orange, 0.98 long, 0.56 wide ( Fig. 25 C). Epigynum as in Figs. 26 F–I, with a large, rectangular septum and a concave anterior edge; spermathecae rounded and externally fused.

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

Distribution. Only known by its type locality in San Miguel, Peru ( Fig. 26 ).

Figures

FIGURE 25. Gelanor innominatus, female holotype; A – D, Habitus; E, Cephalothorax; F – J, Epigynum. A, Cephalothorax, dorsal view. B, Cephalothorax, ventral. C, Abdomen, dorsal. D, Abdomen, ventral. E, Frontal view. F, Anterior. G, Ventral. H, Posterior. I – J, Epigynum clarified I, Ventral. J, Dorsal view showing externally fused spermathecae. Scale bars, A – E, 1 mm; F, 100 µm; G – J, 200 µm.

FIGURE 26. Distribution records of G. fortuna new species (blue circle) and G. innominatus (blue square).