Tafana pittieri, De Oliveira & Brescovit, 2021

De Oliveira, Luiz Fernando M. & Brescovit, Antonio Domingos, 2021, Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of ghost spiders of the genus Tafana Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Dionycha, Anyphaenidae), with the descriptions of twelve new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 742, pp. 1-77 : 49-50

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2021.742.1291

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4658769

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5763F405-387A-4B81-B2A2-D2A309390260

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Tafana pittieri
status

sp. nov.

Tafana pittieri sp. nov.

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Figs 28 View Fig , 33F View Fig , 35 View Fig

Diagnosis

Males of Tafana pittieri sp. nov. resemble those of the silhavyi group by having the secondary looping in the middle in the tegulum, but differ from them by having the large laminar, ring-shaped apophysis at the base of the embolus and retrolateral tibial apophysis short and truncated ( Fig. 28C–E View Fig ). Females differ from the other species by having the lateral lobes wing-shaped in the median region, covering part of the atrium, and secondary spermathecae with slender shape ( Fig. 28F–G View Fig , 33F View Fig ).

Etymology

The specific name is a patronym in honor of Henri Pittier, a botanist, geographer and ethnologist who devoted himself to the study of the flora and fauna in the National Park Henri Pittier, where the specimen was collected. In the year of 1953 the park (until then called Rancho Grande) was renamed in honor of H. Pittier.

Material examined

Holotype VENEZUELA • 1 ♂; Aragua, Rancho Grande, current National Park Henri Pittier ; [10°20′58″ N, 67°41′08″ W]; 8–15 Apr. 1945; M. Beebe et. al. leg.; AMNH. GoogleMaps

Paratype VENEZUELA • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; AMNH GoogleMaps .

Description

Male (holotype, AMNH)

COLOR. Exemplar probably discolored. Carapace orange with cephalic region dark ( Fig. 28A View Fig ). Labium, sternum and endites yellow. Chelicerae reddish. Legs I–IV yellow, darkest at tarsi. Abdomen yellow with spots in dorsal view ( Fig. 28A View Fig ).

MEASUREMENTS. Total length 6.3, carapace length 2.8, width 2.21. Clypeus height 0.08. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.1, ALE 0.12, PME 0.1, PLE 0.12; AME–AME 0.04, AME–ALE 0.04, PME– PME 0.12, PME–PLE 0.1, ALE–PLE 0.04. Chelicerae 1.1 long, with four promarginal teeth and four retromarginal denticles.

LEG MEASUREMENTS. I—femur 3.0/ patella 1.1/ tibia 3.5/ metatarsus 3.12 /tarsus 1.2/ total 11.92; II— 2.7/ 1.1/ 2.4 /2.8 / 0.93 /9.93; III—1.98 / 0.8/ 1.53 / 2.0/ 0.6/ 6.91; IV—2.7/ 0.9 /2.5 / 3.1/ 0.7/ 9.9.

LEG SPINATION. I—tibia v2-2-2, p1-1-0, r1-1-0, metatarsus v2-0-0, p1-0-0, r1-0-0; II—tibia v2-2-2, p1-1-0, r1-1-0, metatarsus p1-0-0, r1-0-0; III—tibia p1-1-1, r1-1-1; IV—tibia p1-1-1.

PALP. Cymbium with large retrolateral projection, embolus long with large base and narrow apex; median apophysis long and curved apically; ventral tegular process short and hyaline; tegulum without basal protuberance; sperm duct with secondary looping in horizontal position; median apophysis laminar, long and curved at the apex ( Fig. 28C–E View Fig ).

ABDOMEN. Length 3.4, epigastric furrow 0.5 from tracheal spiracle, spiracle 1.9 from base of spinnerets.

Female (paratype, AMNH)

COLOR. Exemplar probably discolored. Coloration as in males of this species, except for chelicerae reddish brown ( Fig. 28B View Fig ).

MEASUREMENTS. Total length 5.4, carapace length 2.2, width 1.8. Clypeus height 0.06. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.08, ALE 0.1, PME 0.1, PLE 0.1; AME–AME 0.04, AME–ALE 0.02, PME– PME 0.14, PME–PLE 0.08, ALE–PLE 0.04. Chelicerae 2.2 long, with four promarginal teeth and four retromarginal denticles.

LEG MEASUREMENTS. I—femur 1.9 /patella 0.8/ tibia 1.8/ metatarsus 1.6/ tarsus 0.8 /total 6.9; II— 1.5/ 0.6/ 1.05 / 1.4/ 0.6 /5.15; III—1.2/ 0.5/ 0.7 /1.1 /0.4 / 3.9; IV—1.7/ 0.7 /1.6 / 2.0/ 0.52 / 6.52.

LEG SPINATION. I—tibia v2-2-2, p1-1-0, r1-1-0, metatarsus v2-0-0, p1-0-0, r1-0-0; II—tibia v2-2-2, p0-1-0, r1-1-0, metatarsus p1-0-0, r1-0-1; III—tibia v1-2-2, p1-1-0, r1-1-0, metatarsus v2-1-2, p0-1-1, r0-1-1; IV—tibia v1-2-2, p1-1-1.

EPIGYNUM. Triangular hood with sclerotized border; atrium short; epigynal plate not covered by cuticle, covered in the posterior region; lateral lobes sinuous with wing form in the median region. Internally, copulatory ducts short and curved; primary spermathecae oval and separated; secondary spermathecae small in the posterior region of the copulatory ducts; fertilization ducts longer than primary spermathecae ( Figs 28F–G View Fig , 33F View Fig ).

ABDOMEN. Length 3.2, epigastric furrow 0.6 from tracheal spiracle, spiracle 1.1 from base of spinnerets.

Distribution

Known only from Aragua, Venezuela ( Fig. 33 View Fig ).

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Anyphaenidae

SubFamily

Anyphaeninae

Genus

Tafana

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