Blancoa piacoa Huber, 2000: 332
On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae)
Huber, Bernhard A.
Villarreal, Osvaldo
European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-10-01
718
1
317
LZW8
Huber, 2000
Huber
2000
[623,965,1749,1776]
Arachnida
Pholcidae
Blancoa
Animalia
Araneae
10
11
Arthropoda
species
piacoa
Figs 3–4, 13, 17–19, 1030, 1033
Blancoa piacoa Huber, 2000: 332, figs 32, 131, 182, 1333–1344(♂ ♀). New records
VENEZUELA– Bolívar• 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, 2 juvs, ZFMK(Ar 21817), and 5 ♀♀, 1 juv.in pure ethanol, ZFMK(Ven18-164), Ciudad Guayana, Parque La Llovizna( 8.3130° N, 62.6724° W), 50 ma.s.l., 11 Nov. 2018( B.A. Huber, O. Villarreal M.)• 2 ♂♂, 9 ♀♀, 1 juv., ZFMK(Ar 21818), same data but 14 Nov. 2018• 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, ZFMK(Ar 21819), and 7 ♀♀in pure ethanol, ZFMK(Ven18-172), La Neverita( 8.0970° N, 62.6727° W), 225 ma.s.l., 13 Nov. 2018( B.A. Huber, O. Villarreal M.). – Delta Amacuro• 4 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, 2 juvs, ZFMK(Ar 21816), and 1 ♂, 5 ♀♀in pure ethanol, ZFMK(Ven18-167), between El Triunfo and Piacoa( 8.5285° N, 62.2958° W), 75 ma.s.l., 12 Nov. 2018( B.A. Huber, O. Villarreal M.). Description(amendments; see Huber 2000) Tibia 1 ineight newly collected males: 1.90–2.45 (mean 2.21); in 16 newly collected females: 1.20–1.50 (mean 1.28). Tibiae 1 and 2 with higher than usual density of short vertical hairs in males only. Prolateral trichobothrium apparently absent on tibia 1. Epigynum and internal female genitalia as in Figs 13, 17–19.
Distribution Known from several localities in the Venezuelan states Delta Amacuro, Bolívar, and Monagas(Fig. 1033). Natural history Between El Triunfo and Piacoa this species was found in the leaf litter of a humid forest, on the undersides of curved leaves on the ground. In Parque La Llovizna the forest was much dryer and the spiders lived under pieces of wood and bark on the ground, in almost the same microhabitat as Modisimus simoniHuber, 1997in the same place.
2018-11-11
ZFMK
B. A. Huber & O. Villarreal M.
Venezuela
Ar
50
11
12
8.313
Ciudad Guayana
7
-62.6724
Ven
10
11
11
7
3
Bolivar
2018-11-14
ZFMK
Huber & Villarreal
Ar
50
8.313
Ar
7
-62.6724
Ven
11
12
12
9
2
2018-11-13
ZFMK
B. A. Huber & O. Villarreal M.
Ar
225
8.097
La Neverita
7
-62.6727
Ven
11
12
12
10
2
Delta Amacuro
2018-11-12
ZFMK
B. A. Huber & O. Villarreal M.
75
8.5285
Ven
7
-62.2958
Ar
11
12
13
8
5
Delta Amacuro