Ochyrocera otonga new species

Figs 42–44, map 1.

Type material. Male holotype from Ecuador, Cotopaxi Province, Otonga Biological Reserve (00.42261°S 79.5107°W), 1888m, pitfall, 03–16 August 2014, N. Dupérré, E. Tapia (QCAZ).

Other material examined. None.

Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality, Otonga Biological Reserve.

Diagnosis. Males are distinguished from all Ochyrocera by their medially twisted embolus (Fig. 43).

Description (damaged from exposition to pitfall preservation chemical): Male: Total length: 1.7; carapace length: 0.7; carapace width: 0.6. PROSOMA: Carapace pyriform, narrowing abruptly anteriorly; shiny, light yellow with purple median band and laterals bands; pars cephalica slightly elevated; fovea not visible. Sternum whitish; as long as wide; with extremely long setae. Endites whitish; labium whitish; notch. Clypeus sloping with purple band medially; high (4x PME). Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with three widely spaced teeth, followed by a series of five teeth attached to the lamina; retromargin without denticles (Fig. 44). EYES: Six eyes of about equal size; PME rounded, contiguous; PME-ALE slightly separated; ALE rounded contiguous with PLE; PLE rounded. OPISTHOSOMA: Oval (damaged). LEGS: All legs missing. GENITALIA: Palpal femur long, purple apically (Fig. 43); palpal patella purple; palpal tibia not narrow basally; with two dorsal, one retrolateral trichobothria (Figs 42, 43). Cymbium conical with squared extension prolaterally (Fig. 43); retrolateral apophysis elongated bearing cuspule at its apical end (Fig. 42). Bulb oval (Fig. 42). Embolus elongated, projecting forward, widest basally, twisted medially, black and pointed apically (Fig. 42); sperm duct narrowing 1/2 from beginning to the tip of embolus without loop (Figs 42, 43).

Distribution. Ecuador: Cotopaxi Province.

Natural history. Collected by pitfall at an altitude of 1888m.