Garcorops jadis, Bosselaers, Jan, 2004

Bosselaers, Jan, 2004, A new Garcorops species from Madagascar copal (Araneae: Selenopidae), Zootaxa 445, pp. 1-7 : 2-3

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.157259

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6269955

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9E1087F2-D22A-0334-DE5C-F9B1FCF8F8A8

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scientific name

Garcorops jadis
status

sp. nov.

Garcorops jadis sp. nov. ( Figs. 1–7 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURES 3 – 6 View FIGURE 7 )

Type material. Holotype male, MADAGASCAR : Sambava area, enclosed together with several small dipterous insects, a cockroach, a mite and a juvenile araneid spider in a copal piece measuring 70 x 20 x 12 mm ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ), purchased from dealer ( MRAC).

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to Garcorops madagascar Corronca 2003 through the possession of a well developed cymbial dorsal scopula, a long embolus circling the bulbus, a T­shaped conductor with a blunt lateral projection, a small, unbranched, subtriangular, retrolaterally pointing MA with an almost straight tip, and a trifid RTA with a long, pointed dorsal branch ( Figs. 3–5 View FIGURES 3 – 6 , 7 View FIGURE 7 ). However, it differs from Garcorops madagascar in the dorsal RTA branch being directed ventrally instead of apically and in the longer, more apically implanted lateral projection of the conductor.

Etymology. The species is named after Jadis , the Ice Queen from C.D. Lewis’ youth novel "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" because the beautiful holotype specimen seems like enclosed in ice, frozen in time forever.

Description.

Male. Total length 6.5. Carapace l: 3.0; w: 2.8. Carapace yellow­brown, with remnants of darker markings, covered by white hairs ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 ). Clypeus straight, comparable in height to diameter of AME. First eye row composed of six eyes ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 3 – 6 ): AME in the middle (diameter 0.22) flanked by large PME (diameter 0.27), and laterally from these small ALE, with diameter 0.11. PLE in a second row, with diameter 0.30. Chelicerae yellow­brown, small and pointed, bulging forward, with a pronounced cheliceral boss. Endites yellowbrown, subrectangular with blunt narrowed tip and tuft of terminal setae. Labium brown, short, with semicircular frontal rim. Sternum yellow­brown, shield­shaped, l: 2.0; w: 1.6.

Abdomen yellow­brown with darker brown markings ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 ), covered with thin, pointed pale hairs.

Legs yellow­brown with clear remnants of darker annulations ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 ), mt and ta III and IV missing. Leg spination: fe: I do 3­3­3; II do 1­1­2; III do 1­2­3; IV do 3­3­3; ti: I pl 1­0­1 rl 1­0­1 ve 2­2­2­2; II ve 2­2­2­2; III ve 2­(1)­2­1; IV pl 1­0­0 rl 1­0­1 ve 2­2­1; mt: I ve 2­2­2; II ve 2­2­2; III ve 2­?­?; IV ve 0­?­?.

Leg measurements:

fe pa ti mt ta total

I 5.3 1.3 4.3 4.0 2.0 16.8

II 5.5 1.3 4.5 4.5 2.2 17.9

III 5.0 1.3 4.5 ­ ­ ­

IV 4.8 1.0 4.0 ­ ­ ­

Male palp as illustrated ( Figs. 3–5 View FIGURES 3 – 6 , 7 View FIGURE 7 ), ti with trifid RTA with short, pointed posterior branch, long, flattened and pointed anterior branch and blunt third branch ( Figs. 3 View FIGURES 3 – 6 , 7 View FIGURE 7 ). Embolus long, completely encircling bulbus. Conductor T­shaped, bearing a blunt lateral projection, rl tip long and pointed, directed backwards ( Figs. 3–5 View FIGURES 3 – 6 ). MA basally implanted on bulbus, subtriangular, pointing retrolaterally outwards ( Figs. 3–5 View FIGURES 3 – 6 ). Left palp could be observed laterally ( Figs. 3 View FIGURES 3 – 6 , 7 View FIGURE 7 ), right palp could only be seen from the frontal­ventral side ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 3 – 6 ). Ventral view of left palp ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 3 – 6 ) has been reconstructed from both observations.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Only known from a beached piece of copal of uncertain origins and age, found in the vicinity of Sambava, Madagascar .

MRAC

Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Selenopidae

Genus

Garcorops

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