Cubanops tortuguilla, Sánchez-Ruiz & Platnick & Dupérré, 2010

Sánchez-Ruiz, Alexander, Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2010, A New Genus of the Spider Family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from the West Indies, American Museum Novitates 2010 (3705), pp. 1-44 : 42

Cubanops tortuguilla , new species

Figures 212–218

TYPE: Female holotype taken under rock at Tortuguilla, San A. del Sur, Guantánamo, Cuba (Nov. 10, 2000; R. Teruel), deposited in BSC (593).

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

DIAGNOSIS: Females can be recognized by the laterally thickened anterior margin of the receptaculum, and the relatively long membranous sac anterior of that margin (figs. 217, 218).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 4.14 (figs. 212–218). Carapace pale yellow with whiter areas, margins not darkened, reticulations weak, reduced to two curved, paramedian bands. Sternum orange, margins rebordered but without dark markings. Abdominal dorsum white with two pairs of anterior purple patches, posterior pair much larger than anterior, followed posteriorly by three purple chevrons. Anterior femora and tibiae slightly darkened. Sclerotized anterior margin of receptaculum with greatly thickened sides (figs. 217, 218).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cuba (Guantánamo province).

Figures

FIGS. 212–218. Cubanops tortuguilla, new species, female. 212. Habitus, dorsal view. 213. Same, ventral view. 214. Carapace, dorsal view. 215. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 216. Epigastric region, ventral view. 217. Internal genitalia, ventral view. 218. Same, dorsal view.