Corythalia dakryoides Bayer 2020

Bedoya-Roqueme, Edwin & Lopez-Villada, Samia, 2020, Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Department of Córdoba in the Caribbean Region of Colombia, Peckhamia 224 (1), pp. 1-23 : 13

11. Corythalia dakryoides Bayer 2020

Corythalia dakryoides Bayer , in Bayer, Höfer & Metzner, 2020.

Material examined. 2♀ [ Figures 33, 35 ], Colombia, San Antero : Caño Mocho [N9.4107°, W75.7920°], [2m] 22 Aug 2018, mangrove forest, Rhizophora mangle L . tree, shaking foliage, E. Bedoya – Roqueme coll . ( LEUC; OARA –188). Type material deposited in the SMF not examined .

Diagnosis. According to Bayer et al. (2020), the females of Corythalia dakryoides ( Figure 33 ) can be distinguished from those of all other Corythalia species by their epigynal windows elongated, oval epigynal windows ( Figure 35 ). There is a very small anterolateral gap between the lateral margin and the anterior margin of these epigynal windows, the latter diverging widely anteriorly and then running in parallel posterolaterally) (see Bayer et al. 2020, figs. 28A, 73A–B). The primary spermathecae are as long as broad and do not extend beyond the posterior margins of the epigynal windows ( Figure 35 ).

Measurements (mm; specimens from Colombia). Two females: TL= 8.3-8.5; CL= 3.8-3.9-; CW= 2.9-3.1; AL= 3.5-3.7; AERW= 2.4-2.5; PERW= 2.3-2.5; LOQ= 2.3-2.4; PMEP=0.27-0.30; eyes of the second row separated from the ALE by 0.30 mm and from the PLE by 0.25-0.27mm.

Distribution. Corythalia dakryoides is known only from Colombia.

Figures

Figures 33-36. Female Corythalia dakryoides and C. spiralis. 33, C. dakyroides, dorsal view. 34, C. spiralis, dorsal view. 35, C. dakryoides epigyne, ventral view. 36, C. spiralis, epigyne, ventral view.