Priscula chejapi González-Sponga, 1999

Figs 967–971, 1062

Priscula chejapi González-Sponga, 1999: 132, figs 10–19 (♂ ♀).

Misidentification

Priscula chejapi – Huber 2000: 139, figs 533–535 (♂).

Notes

We reexamined the type material: ♂ holotype, 1 ♀ paratype, MIZA 105653 (MAGS 1362), “Central Hidroelectrica General José Antonio Paez” [approximately 8.883° N, 70.635° W], 10 Jul. 1992 (A.R. Delgado de G., M. García, M.A. González S.). The palp of the holotype is shown in Figs 967–968; the procursus differs clearly from the figures in Huber (2000: figs 533–534), which are thus based on a misidentified specimen (of a formally undescribed species). The palp of the holotype appears identical to that of P. venezuelana Simon, 1893 . The two species are not synonymized here because the epigynum of the paratype of P. chejapi (Figs 970–971) appears slightly rounder (less triangular) in ventral view and is not flanked by a pair of dark anterior sclerites like that of P. venezuelana .

Distribution

Known from type locality only, in Venezuela, Mérida (Fig. 1062).