Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010

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Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010

Figs 677–680 , 1054

Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010: 20 , pl. 5, figs 1–9.

Diagnosis

Easily distinguished from known congeners by modification of male clypeus (arrow in Fig. 679 , slender process with bifid tip), by modification of male chelicerae ( Fig. 679 ; pair of lateral processes and distal patches of ~10–12 globular hairs on each side), and by long and distally widened ventral hinged process on procursus (arrow in Fig. 678 ).

Type material

VENEZUELA – Miranda • ♂ holotype and 1 ♀ paratype, MIZA 105770 ( MAGS 279 ), El Ávila National Park , Estación de Guardaparques ‘ La Julia’ [10.5054° N, 66.8116° W, 1140 m a.s.l.], 17 Jul. 1981 (J.A. González D.); examined .

Distribution

Known from type locality only, in Venezuela , Miranda (Fig. 1054).

Natural history

According to González-Sponga (2010), the two specimens were not collected from leaves but from crevices in road cuts.

Figures

Figs 677–680. Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010; male holotype and female paratype (MIZA 105770; MAGS 279). 677–678. Left male pedipalp, prolateral and retrolateral views (arrow: ventral hinged process). 679. Male prosoma, oblique frontal view (arrow: clypeus process). 680. Female genitalia, ventral view. Scale lines: 0.3 mm.