Enetea, HUBER, 2000

HUBER, BERNHARD A., 2000, New World Pholcid Spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A Revision At Generic Level, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (254), pp. 1-348 : 103-105

ENETEA , NEW GENUS

TYPE SPECIES: Enetea apatellata , new species

ETYMOLOGY: The generic name honors the Yuracaré (also called Enetes), an Indian people living in the departments of Beni and Cochabamba in Bolivia. They largely resisted the efforts of missionaries, and today preserve a strong sense of ethnic identity. Gen- der feminine.

DIAGNOSIS/DESCRIPTION: See diagnosis and description of single species below.

GENERIC RELATIONSHIPS: The genus may be close to several other genera of short-legged pholcids with globular opisthosoma and stridulatory files on the male chelicerae (e.g., Aucana , Kambiwa ). However, the genitalia in these genera are quite distinct, and most or all similarities may be plesiomorphies.

DISTRIBUTION/COMPOSITION: Only type species, from Beni, Bolivia.

Enetea apatellata , new species

Figures 390 394

Bolivian pholcid, I.D. #6: Huber, 1999: fig. 19.

TYPE: Male holotype from El Trapiche , Estación Biologica de Beni, Dept. Beni, Bolivia ; July 27 29, 1993 (A. D. Brescovit), in MCN .

ETYMOLOGY: The species name is an adjective referring to the missing patella in the male palp.

DIAGNOSIS: Tiny, short-legged pholcid with eight eyes, without thoracic groove, with globular opisthosoma; easily distinguished from other short-legged pholcids (and any other known pholcid) by the missing male palpal patella (figs. 390 392). Further distinguished by the ribbon-shaped, slightly curved procursus (fig. 390) and the pair of large frontal apophyses on the male chelicerae (figs. 393 394).

MALE (holotype): Total length 1.19, carapace width 0.53; leg 1: (0.71+0.21+0.63 +0.63, tarsus missing), tibia 2: 0.52, tibia 3: 0.45, tibia 4: 0.66; tibia 1 l/d: 9. Habitus and prosoma shape as in Ninetis minuta (cf. figs. 315 317), humps on sternum slightly more posterior and smaller; distance PME-ALE about 30% of PME diameter. Entire prosoma orange-ochre; chelicerae with pair of frontal apophyses and stridulatory files laterally (figs. 393 394). Palps as in figs. 390 391, coxa without retrolateral apophysis, femur proximally with stridulatory pick (modified hair) on prolateral side, and small protrusion on retrolateral side; femur directly articulating with tibia (dicondylous joint), patella completely absent (fig. 392); procursus simple, ribbon-shaped, and slightly curved (fig. 390), bulb large, without any apparent apophyses (figs. 390 391). Legs monochromous orange-ochre; without spines, without curved and vertical hairs; retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia 1 at 57%. Opisthosoma ochre, covered dorsally with blackish spots.

FEMALE: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from type locality.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: BOLIVIA: Beni: El Trapiche: type above.

Figures

Figs. 390 394. Enetea apatellata, n. gen., n. sp., male holotype. 390. Right palp, retrolateral view. 391. Right palp, prolateral view. 392. Palpal femur and tibia, dorsal view. 393 394. Chelicerae, frontal and lateral views. Scale lines: 0.1 mm.