Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010

Huber, Bernhard A. & Villarreal, Osvaldo, 2020, On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 718, pp. 1-317 : 189-191

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.718.1101

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F9E9A91E-488C-4DB1-9361-E788E9AC5BC1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4343885

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E887AD-FF6C-7ABF-FDA9-F90FFBEEFD15

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scientific name

Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010
status

 

Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010 View in CoL

Figs 677–680 View Figs 677–680 , 1054

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

Diagnosis

Easily distinguished from known congeners by modification of male clypeus (arrow in Fig. 679 View Figs 677–680 , slender process with bifid tip), by modification of male chelicerae ( Fig. 679 View Figs 677–680 ; 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 View Figs 677–680 ).

Type material

VENEZUELA – Miranda • ♂ holotype GoogleMaps and 1 ♀ paratype, MIZA 105770 About MIZA ( 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 GoogleMaps .

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.

Gonzalez-Sponga M. A. 2010. Biodiversidad. Aracnidos de Venezuela. Redescripcion de seis generos, cinco especies y descripcion de una nueva especie de la familie Pholcidae Koch, 1850 (Araneae). Boletin de da Academia de Ciencias Fisicas, Matematicas y Naturales de Venezuela 68: 9 - 26.

Gallery Image

Figs 677–680. Metagonia juliae González-Sponga, 2010; male holotype and female paratype (MIZA 105770; MAGS 279). 677–678. Left male pedipalp, prolateral and retrolateral views (arrow: ventral hinged process). 679. Male prosoma, oblique frontal view (arrow: clypeus process). 680. Female genitalia, ventral view. Scale lines: 0.3 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Pholcidae

Genus

Metagonia