Soesilarishius tabernarius, Ruiz, Gustavo Rodrigo Sanches, 2013

Ruiz, Gustavo Rodrigo Sanches, 2013, Nine new species of Soesilarishius from Brazil (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae), Zootaxa 3664 (4), pp. 586-600 : 591

Soesilarishius tabernarius sp. nov.

Figs 7 , 17–18

Type material: Holotype: male from Serra da Jiboia (Estrada Pioneira, near the antenna, 12.871ºS, 39.481ºW), Santa Teresinha, Bahia, Brazil, 8.XI.2010, L.S. Carvalho et al. (MPEG 20780).

Etymology. The epithet is a Latin noun, meaning the Roman citizen who worked in a taberna, the closest to a modern bar, due to the corkscrew shape of the embolus.

Diagnosis. Males slightly resemble the ones of S. minimus Ruiz, 2011 by the corkscrew shape of the embolus ( Fig. 17 ), but can be recognized by having longer RTA ( Fig. 18 ). Females are unkwnon.

Description. Male holotype: Total length: 3.08. Carapace dark brown, 1.71 long, 1.18 wide, 0.87 high ( Fig. 7 ). Ocular quadrangle 0.99 long, with a large chevron-shaped cluster of white scales ( Fig. 7 ). Anterior eye row 1.28 wide and posterior 1.14 wide. A pair of tufts of white scales behind the posterior eyes ( Fig. 7 ). Clypeus with a pair of strong setae. Chelicera, labium and sternum dark brown. Endite dark brown, slightly projected laterally. Palp dark brown, with a simple, medium-sized RTA, ovoid tegulum, large and sclerotized embolar base, spiral embolus tip, curling counter-clockwise in the left palp ( Figs 17–18 ). Legs 1342, dark brown, except for tarsi, yellow. Tufts of white scales on dorsal patellae and median third of tibiae. Length of femur: I 1.28, II 0.78, III 1.47, IV 0.90; patella + tibia: I 1.52, II 0.86, III 1.02, IV 1.42; metatarsus + tarsus: I 1.14, II 0.80, III 0.95, IV 1.11. Forth leg spination not elongated. Abdomen dorsally dark brown, the anterior border covered with white scales and with a pair of transverse white bars behind the middle of the abdomen; these extend to the sides and backwards, forming a pair of curved, clear stains (as the ones described for S. cearensis sp. nov. and S. flagellator sp. nov., Figs 39–40 ). Spinnerets dark brown.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the State of Bahia, Brazil.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 7. Soesilarishius chaplini sp. nov. 1 male habitus; 2 female habitus; 3 male face. Soesilarishius macrochelis sp. nov. 4 male habitus; 5 female habitus; 6 male face. Soesilarishius tabernarius sp. nov. 7 male habitus.

FIGURES 13 – 18. Soesilarishius macrochelis sp. nov. 13 – 14 left male palp, slightly expanded (13 ventral, 14 retrolateral); 15 epigyne, ventral view; 16 vulva, dorsal view, cleared. Soesilarishius tabernarius sp. nov. 17 – 18 left male palp (17 ventral, 18 retrolateral).

FIGURES 34 – 40. Soesilarishius cearensis sp. nov. 34 male habitus; 35 female habitus; 39 female, lateral view. Soesilarishius bicrescens sp. nov. 36 male habitus. Soesilarishius flagellator sp. nov. 37 male habitus; 38 female habitus; 40 female, lateral view.