Zorocrates oaxaca, 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 : 41-42

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3579[1:AROTSG]2.0.CO;2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/82407610-C723-FFE0-885E-FA8510005826

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Carolina

scientific name

Zorocrates oaxaca
status

sp. nov.

Zorocrates oaxaca View in CoL , new species figures 114, 115 View Figs ; map 4

TYPE: Female holotype from Oaxaca, Mexico (Feb. 6, 1939), deposited in AMNH .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males are unknown; females resemble those of Z. karli and Z. nochixtlan but have a medially produced anterior epigynal margin and much larger anterolateral epigynal ducts ( figs. 114, 115 View Figs ).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 9. Coloration as in Z. fuscus . Leg spination: femora: I d1-1-0, p0- 0-2, r0-0-0; II p0-1-1, r0-0-0; IV p0-1-1, r0-0-1; patellae IV r0-1-0; tibiae: I, II d0-0-0, p0-0-0, 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 present. Anterior epigynal margin produced posteriorly at midline, posterolateral epigynal margins pronounced; spermathecal ducts convoluted, with enlarged anterolateral blind ends ( figs. 114, 115 View Figs ).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Oaxaca, Mexico (map 4).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Zoropsidae

Genus

Zorocrates

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