Curicaberis huitiupan, Rheims, Cristina A., 2015

Rheims, Cristina A., 2015, Curicaberis, a new genus of Sparassidae from North and Central America (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparassinae), Zootaxa 4012 (3), pp. 401-446 : 427-428

Curicaberis huitiupan sp. nov.

Figs 59−60, Map 3

Type material: Holotype: ♂, Huitiupan [17°10’N, 92°41’W], Chiapas , Mexico, C. Beutelspacher leg. ( CNAN 3357).

Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality. Diagnosis. Males of C. granada sp. nov. resemble those of C. huitiupan sp. nov. and C. mitla sp. nov. by the palp with dRTA short, vRTA1 conical and gently curved towards cymbium, vRTA2 conical and relatively blunt (Figs 55−56, 59−60, 77−78). They are distinguished from both of those species by the long, S-shaped embolus, with narrower base and by the vRTA1 arising from the base of dRTA forming a wide U in retrolateral view (Figs 59−60). Females are unknown.

Description. Male: Prosoma orange, slightly darker at eye area and brown along fovea. Chelicerae, legs and pedipalps orange. Labium and endites pale orange, distally cream colored. Sternum pale orange. Opisthosoma brownish gray, dorsally with few scattered pale brown spots laterally and anteriorly and four faint median brown chevrons on posterior half. Total length 12.2. Prosoma: 5.5 long, 5.1 wide. Opisthosoma: 6.5 long, 4.5 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.36, 0.30, 0.24, 0.30; interdistances: 0.20, 0.12, 0.50, 0.44, 0.38, 0.30. Legs (2143): I: 33.5 (8.8, 3.3, 9.0, 9.6, 2.8); II: 36.2 (9.9, 3.3, 9.8, 10.3, 2.9); III: 24.8 (7.0, 2.9, 6.3, 6.6, 2.0); IV: 29.2 (8.6, 2.6, 7.5, 8.4, 2.1). Palp: subtegulum visible at 9 o’clock position. Embolus arising medially from tegulum. Conductor distally widened (Figs 59−60).

Female: Unknown.

Distribution. Known from the state of Chiapas , Mexico (Map 3).

FIGURES 61−64. Curicaberis jalisco sp. nov. 61− 62 male, left palp (61 ventral, 62 retrolateral); 63− 64 female (63 epigyne, ventral view, 64 vulva, dorsal view). C = conductor; CD = copulatory duct; dRTA = dorsal branch of RTA; E = embolus; EP = extra tibial projection; FD = fertilization duct; GP = glandular projection; LL = lateral lobes; MS = median septum; SP = spermathecae; ST = subtegulum; vRTA1 = projection 1 of ventral branch of RTA; vRTA2 = projection 2 of ventral branch of RTA. Scale lines: 1 mm.