Ant-eating spiders (Araneae: Zodariidae) of Portugal: additions to the current knowledge
Author
Pekár, Stano
Department of Zoology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlá ská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic; pekar @ sci. muni. cz Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Praceta dos Metalúrgicos, 2, 1 º Dto., 2835 - 043 Baixa da Banheira, Portugal. Present address: Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK- 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark * Corresponding author
Author
Cardoso, Pedro
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Zodarion bosmansi
sp. n.
(
Figs 9–12
,
17
)
Z. segurense
:
Pekár et al., 2003: 393–394
, fig. 15 (misidentification).
Type data.
Holotype
male:
Beja district
:
Parque Natural do Vale do Guadiana
,
Algodôr
(UTM 29
SPB07
),
16 July 2003
,
P. Cardoso
leg.;
paratypes
: same locality,
27 August 2004
, 2f,
P. Cardoso
leg. Type material deposited in SMF.
Material used for comparison.
Zodarion segurense
:
male
holotype
,
Spain
,
Jaén
,
Sierra de Segura
,
Segura
,
25 May 1980
,
R
.
Jocqué
leg. (
IRSNB
)
.
Remark.
In our previous paper (
Pekár et al. 2003
) we noted some dissimilarities between this species and a closely related
Z. segurense
Bosmans. As
the
type
material of
Z. segurense
was not available, we could not designate a new species.
Diagnosis.
This species is closely related to
Z. segurense
and
Z. lusitanicum
but it is markedly larger. Males of
Z. bosmansi
are further distinguished from these two species by shape of distal end of tibial apophysis, which is terminally truncate and by tip of embolus that is hooked. Females differ in shape of frontal margin of epigyne, which has paired sclerotised lips.
FIGURES 9–12.
Zodarion bosmansi
sp. n.
9 male palp, ventral view. 10 male palp, retrolateral view. 11 epigyne, ventral view. 12 vulva, dorsal view. Scale bars = 0.25 mm.
Description.
Male
: Total length 4.08 mm (SD = 0.31, n = 10), prosoma 2.03 mm (SD = 0.14, n = 10) long, 1.58 mm (SD = 0.14, n = 10) wide.
Colour
: Prosoma and chelicerae light brown, legs yellow. Sternum yellow with thin brown margin. Opisthosoma dorsally sepia brown, ventrally pale.
Palp
(
Figs 9–10
): tibial apophysis long and gently curved, terminally truncate. Retinaculum (unnaturally expanded) with distal sharp tooth, embolus hooked, distal tegular apophysis broad and flattened.
Female
. Total length 4.84 mm (SD = 0.45, n = 10), prosoma 2.33 mm (SD = 0.13, n = 10) long, 1.71 mm (SD = 0.15, n = 10) wide.
Colour
: as in males.
Epigyne
(
Figs 11–12
): median plate wider than long, anterior margin well marked with paired sclerotised lips. Openings at lateral margins.
Material examined.
Beja district
:
Parque Natural do Vale do Guadiana
(all
P. Cardoso
leg.,
CPC
):
Algodôr
(UTM 29
SPB07
)
,
30 July 2003
, 1f;
13 August
2003
, 1m+1f;
27 August
2003
, 1m+
1f;
Ribeira de Limas
(UTM 29
SPB28
)
,
16 July 2003
, 1f;
30 July
2003
, 8m+2f;
13 August 2003
,
1f.
FIGURES 13–20.
Distribution of zodariid spiders in Portugal. 13
Amphiledorus adonis
. 14,
Amphiledorus ungoliantae
.
15
Zodarion alacre
.
16
Zodarion atlanticum
. 17
Zodarion bosmansi
. 18
Zodarion lusitanicum
. 19
Zodarion merlijni
. 20
Zodarion styliferum
. 21
Zodarion styliferum
f.
extraneum
. Current (full symbols) and previous (empty symbols) records.
Distribution.
Known only from southern Alentejo in
Portugal
(
Fig. 17
).
Etymology.
The name is a noun in genitive case, dedicated to Robert Bosmans, who made the extensive revision of this genus.