Tupigea cantareira Machado et al., 2007

Huber, Bernhard A. & Rheims, Cristina A., 2011, Diversity and endemism of pholcid spiders in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, with descriptions of four new species of the Atlantic Forest endemic genus Tupigea (Araneae: Pholcidae), Journal of Natural History 45 (5 - 6), pp. 275-301 : 299

Tupigea cantareira Machado et al., 2007

( Figure 11 H–M)

Tupigea sp. 2: Astrin et al. 2006: 445; 2007: 20.

Tupigea cantareira Machado et al. 2007: 32 , figs. 29–40.

Note

Figure 11 H–M supplement the original description that did not include SEM images: deep thoracic groove ( Figure 11H ), cheliceral apophyses in regular arches ( Figure 11I ), anterior lateral spinnerets with only two spigots each ( Figure 11J ), epigynum consisting of two large plates of approximately equal size ( Figure 11K ), pore plates relatively small and in frontal position ( Figure 11L,M ).

Figures

Figure 11. Scanning electron micrographs of Tupigea teresopolis (A–F), T. penedo sp. nov. (G), and T. cantareira (H–M). (A) Male prosoma, frontal view; (B) epigynum; (C) female tarsus 4 tip with comb-hairs; (D–G) male right palps in retrolateral (D), retrolatero-dorsal (E) and dorsal (F, G) views; (H) male prosoma, dorsolateral view; (I) male chelicerae; (J) female anterior lateral spinnerets; (K) epigynum; (L) cleared female genitalia, dorsal view; (M) detail of pore plate. Scale bars: 10 µm (J, M), 20 µm (C), 80 µm (D, E), 100 µm (B, F, G, I, L), 200 µm (A, H, K).