Curicaberis granada, 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 : 426-427

Curicaberis granada sp. nov.

Figs 55−58, Map 3

Type material: Holotype: ♂, Granada [17°56’N, 85°57’W], Granada , Nicaragua, N. Banks leg. ( MCZ 99638). Paratypes: 3♀, same data as holotype ( MCZ 99638; 69689); 1♀, Manágua [12°08’N, 86°15’W], Manágua, Nicaragua, R.B. Swain leg. ( AMNH); 1♀, Managna, Mexico [lapsus, probably Manágua, Nicarágua], N. Banks leg. ( MCZ 69690); 1♀, Leon [12°25’N, 86°52’W], Leon, Nicaragua, November 1989, B. Garcete leg. ( MCZ 99640).

MAP 3. Distribution map for Curicaberis granada sp. nov., C. huitiupan sp. nov., C. jalisco sp. nov., C. luctuosus (Banks) comb. nov., C. manifestus (O. Pickard-Cambridge) comb. nov. and C. minax (O. Pickard-Cambridge) comb. nov.

Additional material examined. COSTA RICA: Guanacaste: 1♂, Bagaces [10°31’N, 85°15’W], 12−22 January 1978, W. Eberhard leg ( MCZ).

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 species by the vRTA1 not connected to dRTA, from those of C. huitiupan sp. nov. by the embolus shorter, more abruptly narrowed and completely covering the subtegulum (Fig. 55) and from those of C. mitla sp. nov. by the vRTA2 as long as vRTA1 (Fig. 56) (much longer in C. mitla sp. nov.). Females are easily distinguished from the other species of the genus by the epigyne with median septum W-shaped and posterior margin surpassing the epigastric furrow by almost half septum length (Fig. 57).

Description. Male (holotype): Prosoma pale orange, darker at eye area with brown anterolateral corners. Chelicerae orange. Legs and pedipalps pale orange. Labium and endites pale orange, distally cream colored. Opisthosoma pale yellow, dorsally with conspicuous grayish yellow cardiac impression and posterior median, longitudinal brown stripe. Total length 9.2. Prosoma: 4.2 long, 4.2 wide. Opisthosoma: 4.7 long, 3.5 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.34, 0.28, 0.24, 0.24; interdistances: 0.22, 0.08, 0.34, 0.32, 0.24, 0.16. Legs (2143): I: 26.5 (7.2, 2.5, 7.4, 7.4, 2.0); II: 28.2 (7.7, 2.4, 7.8, 8.1, 2.2); III: 18.7 (5.6, 1.9, 5.0, 4.9, 1.3); IV: 23.3 (6.7, 2.1, 6.2, 6.8, 1.5). Palp: dRTA sinuous in retrolateral view. Embolus arising medially from tegulum. Conductor long with pair of hyaline keels (Figs 55−56).

Female (AMNH): Coloration as in male. Total length 9.3. Prosoma: 4.4 long, 4.4 wide. Opisthosoma: 4.7 long, 3.0 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.34, 0.30, 0.24, 0.30; interdistances: 0.30, 0.10, 0.50, 0.44, 0.30, 0.26. Legs (2143): I: 20.9 (5.8, 2.5, 5.4, 5.6, 1.6); II: 23.4 (6.6, 2.6, 6.2, 6.3, 1.7); III: 15.1 (4.5, 2.1, 3.6, 3.6, 1.3); IV: 17.8 (5.3, 2.0, 4.4, 4.7, 1.4). Epigyne: epigynal field semi-circled, wider than long (Fig. 57). Vulva: copulatory ducts very short, less than one-third spermathecae length. Spermathecae small, rounded. Basal part of fertilization ducts as wide as copulatory ducts with jagged margins, distal part latero-dorsad (Fig. 58).

Variation. Males (n = 2): total length 9.2−11.1; prosoma length 4.2−5.2; femur I length 7.2−8.4. Females (n = 5): total length 9.3−15.9; prosoma length 4.4−5.5; femur I length 5.8−7.2.

Distribution. Known from the states of Granada , Manágua and León, Nicaragua and from Guanacaste, Costa Rica (Map 3).

FIGURES 59−60. Curicaberis huitiupan sp. nov., male, left palp (59 ventral, 60 retrolateral). C = conductor; dRTA = dorsal branch of RTA; E = embolus; ST = subtegulum; vRTA1 = projection 1 of ventral branch of RTA; vRTA2 = projection 2 of ventral branch of RTA. Scale lines: 1 mm.