New additions to the Brazilian fauna of the genus Scytodes Latreille (Araneae: Scytodidae) with emphasis on the Atlantic Forest species
Author
Rheims, Cristina A.
Author
Brescovit, Antonio D.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2116
1
45
journal article
40934
10.5281/zenodo.187984
b29a7c01-615c-4ceb-b500-20f3eed6f2bd
1175-5326
187984
Scytodes genebra
new species
Figs. 94–96
Type
material:
Holotype
:
female from
Mata
Santa
Genebra
, Campinas [
22°53' S
;
47°04' W
], São Paulo,
Brazil
,
15 October 1998
, deposited in
IBSP
35148.
Paratype
:
BRAZIL
.
São Paulo
:
Jundiaí (Reserva Biológica Municipal da Serra do Japi) [
23°13' S
;
46°56' W
], 1Ƥ,
6–10 August 2001
, Equipe Biota (
IBSP
92452).
Etymology
. The specific name is a noun in apposition that refers to the
type
locality of the
holotype
.
Diagnosis
. Females of
S. genebra
n.sp.
are distinguished from those of the remaining Neotropical
Scytodes
by the oval hyaline pockets with a large sclerotized area at the base (
Fig. 96
).
Description.
Male unknown.
Female (
Holotype
, IBSP 35148) Carapace pale orange, lighter at center, with brown pattern as shown on
Fig. 94
. Chelicerae pale orange with dorsal, longitudinal brown stripe. Pedipalps pale yellow with prolateral brown stripe. Labium and endites pale yellow, distally cream colored. Sternum cream colored with slightly darker margins and black borders in front of each coxae. Legs pale yellow. Femora I–IV with pair of longitudinal, ventral brown stripes. Tibiae and metatarsi I–IV distally brown. Abdomen pale yellow with faint black pattern (
Fig. 94
). Total length 5.4. Carapace domed, 2.8 long, 2.2 wide. Eye diameters: PME 0.14, ALE 0.14, PLE 0.14. Lateral eyes on a tubercle. Chelicerae with subapical hyaline keel and inconspicuous stridulatory ridges. Labium 0.24 long, 0.28 wide. Sternum 1.32 long, 1.1 wide. Leg measurements: I: femur 5.8, patella 0.9, tibia 6.5, metatarsus 8.3, tarsus 1.2, total 22.7; II: 4.5, 0.9, 4.6, 5.5, 1.0, 16.5; III: 4.0, 0.9, 2.7, 3.5, 1.0, 12.1; IV: 4.6, 0.9, 4.3, 4.9, 1.0, 15.7. Palpal femur with stridulatory pick short and stout with rounded and projected socket. Epigynum with small positioning ridges with two to three ridges, separated from each other by 4–5 times their width (
Fig. 95
). Vulva with globose spermathecae on narrow stalks adjacent to oval hyaline pockets (
Fig. 96
). Abdomen 2.5 long, 2.0 wide, covered with slender hairs.
Distribution
. Atlantic Forest. State of São Paulo.