Zorocrates huatusco, PLATNICK & UBICK, 2007

PLATNICK, NORMAN I. & UBICK, DARRELL, 2007, A Revision of the Spider Genus Zorocrates Simon (Araneae, Zorocratidae), American Museum Novitates 3579, pp. 1-44 : 24-25

Zorocrates huatusco , new species figures 39, 40 ; map 3

TYPE: Female holotype taken in cloud forest litter at an elevation of 1040 m at a site 7 km east of Huatusco , Veracruz, Mexico (June 22, 1983; R. Anderson, S. Peck), deposited in AMNH .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

DIAGNOSIS: Males are unknown, but females of this distinctive species can easily be recognized by the reduced cribellum, the wide anterior epigynal margin that is unconnected to any median epigynal septum ( fig. 39 ), and the widely separated lateral epigynal ducts ( fig. 40 ).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 11. Coloration as in Z. blas . Leg spination: femora: I d0-1-0, p0-0- 2, r0-0-0; II d1-1-0, p0-0-1, r0-0-1; III, IV p0- 0-1, r0-0-1; patellae IV r0-1-0; tibiae: I, II d0- 0-0, p0-0-1, r0-0-0; III r1-0-1; IV d1-1-1; metatarsi: I, II p0-0-0, v2-2-2, r0-0-0; III r1- 2-2. Cribellum reduced, with spinning field restricted to pair of tiny triangles smaller than spinning fields of anterior lateral spinnerets. Anterior epigynal margin wide, recurved; lateral epigynal ducts longitudinal, widely separated ( figs. 39, 40 ).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Veracruz, Mexico (map 3).

Figures

Figs. 37–42. 37, 38. Zorocrates chamela, new species. 39, 40. Z. huatusco, new species. 41, 42. Z. colima, new species. 37, 39, 41. Epigynum, ventral view. 38, 40, 42. Same, dorsal view.