Aysenia cylindrica Ramírez

González, María E. & Ramírez, Martín J., 2012, A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the spider genus Aysenia Tullgren (Araneae: Anyphaenidae, Amaurobioidinae), Zootaxa 3201, pp. 1-26 : 9

Aysenia cylindrica Ramírez

Fig. 6

Aysenia cylindrica Ramírez, 2003: 64 (male holotype from Chile, Región XIV de Los Ríos, Valdivia province: Rincón de Piedra, S of Valdivia, 23-26.II.1979, L. E. Peña, deposited in AMNH, examined; temporary preparations MGM-00003, MGM-00004. Female paratype from Valdivia, 1983, deposited in MHNS, not reexamined).

Diagnosis: Resembles A. araucana in body shape and genitalia; females can by distinguished by the relatively short, not coiled copulatory ducts; males by the copulatory bulb with heavily sclerotized PMA with shallow edges, and short embolus ( Figs 6 b–c).

Description: Male and female described by Ramírez (2003).

Distribution: Known only from a few localities from Río Negro province in Argentina, and Valdivia province in Chile.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Aysenia cylindrica Ramírez (AMNH). a male dorsal habitus; b epigyne, ventral view, Ramírez (2003); c male left palp, ventral view; d male left palp, retrolateral view.