Urupuyu occidentale, Ruiz, Gustavo R. S. & Maddison, Wayne P., 2015

Ruiz, Gustavo R. S. & Maddison, Wayne P., 2015, The new Andean jumping spider genus Urupuyu and its placement within a revised classification of the Amycoida (Araneae: Salticidae), Zootaxa 4040 (3), pp. 251-279 : 260-261

Urupuyu occidentale sp. nov.

Figs 32–35

Type: male holotype from Mindo Garden Forest, Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador (0.0732°S, 78.7542°W, 1240 m elev.), 25.VII.2004, W. Maddison, I. Agnarsson, G. Iturralde (WPM#04-060), deposited in QCAZ, temporarily held at the UBC- SEM.

Etymology: The species epithet, a Latin adjective, refers to the fact that this species is found on the west side of the Andes ( Fig. 35 ).

Diagnosis: Males of this species are similar to those of U. edwardsi sp. nov. by having an acute projection on the ventral lobe of the RTA ( Figs 28 , 33 ), which is shorter in U. occidentale .

Description: Male (holotype): Total length: 2.06. Carapace dark brown, 1.22 long, 0.84 wide, 0.64 high. Ocular quadrangle 0.66 long. Anterior eye row 0.86 wide and posterior 0.84 wide. Sternum, labium, endite and chelicera dark brown. Palp dark brown, tibia with a wide RTA forming a hook dorsally and bearing an acute projection retrolaterally, and an acute RvTA; embolus fixed to the tegulum and curling around it, with a median blunt projection lying in a pit of the prolateral side of tegulum ( Figs 32–34 ). Leg I dark brown, except for proximal patella, metatarsus and tarsus, yellow. Legs II–IV missing. Length of femur I: 0.92; patella + tibia I: 1.22; metatarsus + tarsus I: 0.78. Abdomen and spinnerets dark brown.

Female: Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from Pichincha, Ecuador ( Fig. 35 ).

Figures

FIGURES 32 – 35. Urupuyu occidentale: 32 male left palp, ventral view; 33 same, palpal tibia, retrolateral view; 34 same, dorsal view; Urupuyu spp: 35 distributional records in Ecuador.

FIGURES 27 – 31. Urupuyu edwardsi: 27 male left palp, ventral view; 28 same, palpal tibia, retrolateral view; 29 same, dorsal view; 30 epigyne, ventral view; 31 same, cleared, dorsal view (arrow indicates initial portion of copulation duct dilated as a chamber).