Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010

Figs 677–680, 1054

Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010: 20, pl. 5, figs 1–9.

Diagnosis

Easily distinguished from known congeners by modification of male clypeus (arrow in Fig. 679, slender process with bifid tip), by modification of male chelicerae (Fig. 679; pair of lateral processes and distal patches of ~10–12 globular hairs on each side), and by long and distally widened ventral hinged process on procursus (arrow in Fig. 678).

Type material

VENEZUELA – Miranda • ♂ holotype and 1 ♀ paratype, MIZA 105770 (MAGS 279), El Ávila National Park, Estación de Guardaparques ‘ La Julia’ [10.5054° N, 66.8116° W, 1140 m a.s.l.], 17 Jul. 1981 (J.A. González D.); examined .

Distribution

Known from type locality only, in Venezuela, Miranda (Fig. 1054).

Natural history

According to González-Sponga (2010), the two specimens were not collected from leaves but from crevices in road cuts.