Anapis mariebertheae, Dupérré & Tapia, 2018

Dupérré, Nadine & Tapia, Elicio, 2018, Further discoveries on the minuscule spiders from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of seven new species of Anapis (Araneae: Anapidae), Zootaxa 4459 (3), pp. 482-506 : 490

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.1458814

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5996558

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Anapis mariebertheae
status

sp. nov.

Anapis mariebertheae View in CoL new species

Figs 20–23 View FIGURES 20–23 , 51 View FIGURES 46–53 , 62a View FIGURES 62–62 .

Material examined. Male holotype from Ecuador, Cotopaxi Province, OTONGA Biological Reserve (-00.41433 - 79.00035) 1888m, 3–16.viii.2014, pitfall trap, E. Tapia, C. Tapia, N. Dupérré ( QCAZ) . Male paratype OTONGA Biological Reserve Reserve (-00.41433 -79.00035) 1888m, 3–16.viii.2014, in Dipluridae web, E. Tapia, C. Tapia, N. Dupérré ( QCAZ) .

Etymology. The specific name is in honor of the first author mother Marie-Berthe Girard for her support.

Diagnosis. Males are distiguished from all species by their very short clypeus ( Fig. 51 View FIGURES 46–53 ). Males most resemble A. anabelleae due to the lack of cusps on metatarsus and tarsus I but can be distinguished by their long and pointed conductor ( Figs 20, 21, 21a View FIGURES 20–23 ), shorter and angular in the latter species ( Figs 1, 2 View FIGURES 1–6 ).

Description. Male (holotype): Total length: 0.94; carapace length: 0.37; carapace width: 0.44; abdomen length: 0.57; abdomen width: 0.49; clypeus height: 0.08. Cephalothorax: Carapace orange; pars cephalica puntated, with Y-shaped punctation reaching lateral eyes; cephalic groove shallow, slightly punctated; pars thoracica dorsally rugose, margin slightly punctated ( Fig. 51 View FIGURES 46–53 ). Sternum orange, suffused with dark gray, punctated, longer than wide and covered with setae. Clypeus orange, punctated. Chelicerae orange, excavated medially; with one basal tooth and denticulate plate apically. Eyes: 6 eyes, rounded; AME absent, ALE separated by their radius, ALE-PLE contiguous, LE-PME separated by their radius, PME contiguous. Abdomen: rounded, with dorsal orange scutum; soft portion whitish without sclerites, laterally suffused with stripes of dark gray; spinneret scutum complete. Legs: Orange; metatarsus I and tarsus I without cusp ( Fig. 22 View FIGURES 20–23 ); metatarsus II slightly enlarged with one ventral cusp; tarsus II without cusp ( Fig. 23 View FIGURES 20–23 ). Genitalia: Palpal patella with small anvil-shaped, ventrally curved retrolateral apophysis; palpal tibia with one retrolateral trichobothrium; small scoop-shaped retrolateral apophysis ( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 20–23 ). Cymbium cup-shaped, without extension ( Figs 20, 21 View FIGURES 20–23 ). Embolus short not reaching tip of conductor; conductor transparent, faintly ridged, sinuous, pointed ( Figs 20, 21, 21a View FIGURES 20–23 ).

Female: Unknown.

Distribution. Ecuador: Known only from the type locality.

Natural History. The only two males known were collected at 1,888m.

Remark. One specimen was collected while collecting a Dipluridae web. It is not possible to determine if this species is a kleptoparasite since the specimen was not observed in the web. The specimen could have been collected while collecting debris surrounding the web.

QCAZ

Museo de Zoologia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Anapidae

Genus

Anapis

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