Curicaberis bagaces, 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 : 413

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AC5C8A21-27D1-4D2F-B2B2-36CB1759A3F2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6092347
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3F518A93-B9FE-4EF0-A7CD-A5CB1E85A05D
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:3F518A93-B9FE-4EF0-A7CD-A5CB1E85A05D
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Curicaberis bagaces
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Curicaberis bagaces View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 23−24, Map 1

Type material: Holotype: ♀, Palo Verde, Bagaces [10°31’N, 85°15’W], Guanacaste, Costa Rica, 16−22 January 1978, W. Eberhard leg. ( MCZ 61557).

Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.

Diagnosis. Females of C. bagaces sp. nov. resemble those of C. catarinas sp. nov. by the epigyne with median septum with lateral projections resembling a pair of ears (Figs 23, 25: msp). They are easily distinguished by the median septum with strong median indentation, reaching almost half the septum length, and by the posterior margin surpassing the epigastric furrow by almost half the septum length (Fig. 23). Males are unknown.

Description. Female: Prosoma orange, slightly darker at eye area, along fovea and thoracic striae. Chelicerae slightly darker than prosoma. Legs and pedipalps orange. Sternum pale orange with slightly darker margins. Labium and endites pale orange, distally cream colored. Opisthosoma pale yellow, sparsely mottled with brown spots. Total length 15.5. Prosoma: 5.4 long, 5.8 wide. Opisthosoma: 9.5 long, 6.4 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.40, 0.34, 0.26, 0.30; interdistances: 0.40, 0.20, 0.50, 0.60, 0.36, 0.30. Legs (2143): I: 27.3 (7.6, 3.0, 7.2, 7.5, 2.0); II: 30.1 (8.5, 3.1, 8.1, 8.3, 2.1); III: 20.0 (6.2, 2.5, 5.0, 4.8, 1.5); IV: 23.9 (7.2, 2.8, 6.0, 6.4, 1.5). Epigyne: epigynal field semi-circled, wider than long. Median septum slightly wider than long (Fig. 23). Vulva: copulatory ducts as long as or slightly longer than spermathecae. Spermathecae small and irregular-shaped. Basal part of fertilization ducts slender, no more than one-third copulatory duct width, relatively straight, distal part laterad (Fig. 24).

Male: Unknown.

Distribution. Only known from the type locality in the state of Guanacaste, Costa Rica (Map 1).