Curicaberis potosi, 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 : 437

Curicaberis potosi sp. nov.

Figs 83−84, Map 4

Type material: Holotype: ♀, “El Derrumbe”, Carretera 70, near poblado San Francisco (22°03’N, 100°34’W), San Luis Potosí , Mexico, 11 July 2000, F. Alvarez, E. Gonzales, O. Delgado, J. Castelo, E. Lira & C. Durán leg. ( CNAN 3366).

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

Diagnosis. Females of C. potosi sp. nov. are distinguished from those of the other species of the genus by the epigyne with median septum short, rectangular, more than four times wider than long (Fig. 83) and by the vulva with copulatory ducts narrow at copulatory openings and widening towards spermathecae (Fig. 84). Males are unknown.

Description. Female: Prosoma pale orange with few scattered black marks at the base of setae on cephalic region. Fovea orange. Eye borders black. Legs and pedipalps orange. Tibiae and tarsi brown. Sternum pale orange with orange margins. Labium and endites orange, distally pale yellow. Labium brown at base. Opisthosoma pale yellow. Dorsally with very faint median pale brown marks. Total length 14.4. Prosoma: 5.4 long, 5.5 wide. Opisthosoma: 8.7 long, 6.1 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.34, 0.32, 0.24, 0.32; interdistances: 0.24, 0.22, 0.60, 0.52, 0.22, 0.20. Legs (2143): I: 21.8 (6.2, 3.0, 5.4, 5.5, 1.7); II: 23.7 (7.0, 3.0, 5.9, 6.0, 1.8); III: 16.6 (5.5, 1.5, 4.1, 4.0, 1.5); IV: 19.5 (5.9, 2.5, 4.7, 5.0, 1.4). Epigyne: epigynal field shape resembling a top hat, slightly longer than wide. Posterior margin of median septum not surpassing epigastric furrow (Fig. 83). Vulva: copulatory ducts half of spermathecae length. Spermathecae oval, slightly asymmetric. Basal part of fertilization ducts wide, distal part laterad (Fig. 84).

Male: Unknown.

Distribution. Only known from the type locality in the state of San Luis Potosí , Mexico (Map 4).