Zorocrates apulco, PLATNICK & UBICK, 2007

PLATNICK, NORMAN I. & UBICK, DARRELL, 2007, A Revision of the Spider Genus Zorocrates Simon (Araneae, Zorocratidae), American Museum Novitates 3579, pp. 1-44 : 33-34

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3579[1:AROTSG]2.0.CO;2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/82407610-C72B-FFE8-885A-FC2A12E85FA0

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scientific name

Zorocrates apulco
status

sp. nov.

Zorocrates apulco View in CoL , new species figures 88–92 View Figs ; map 4

TYPE: Female holotype taken at Apulco , Hidalgo, Mexico (Apr. 14–16, 1946; H. Wagner), deposited in AMNH .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the long, distally bent median apophysis ( fig. 89 View Figs ), females by the angular anterior epigynal margin and procurved posterior epigynal margins ( fig. 91 View Figs ).

MALE: Total length 7. Coloration as in Z. blas . Leg spination: femora: I p0-0-2, r0-1-1; II d1-1-0, p0-0-1, r0-2-1; III p0-1-1, r0-2-1; IV p0- 1-1, r0-0-2; patellae IV r0-1-0; tibiae: I d0-0-0, p0-1-0, v4-4-2; II d0-0-0, p1-0-0; III r1-0-1; IV d1-0-1; metatarsi: I p0-1-1, v2-2-2, r0-1-0; II p0- 1-1, r0-1-1; III r1-2-2. Cribellum small but apparently present. Retrolateral tibial apophysis short, recurved at tip; median apophysis greatly elongated, bent at right angle near tip, with small, proximally directed projection; tegular apophysis distally invaginated ( figs. 88–90 View Figs ).

85. Same, retrolateral view. 86. Epigynum, ventral view. 87. Same, dorsal view.

FEMALE: Total length 10. Coloration as in male. Leg spination: femora: I p0-0-2, r0-0-0; II p0-0-1, r0-0-0; III p0-1-1, r0-1-1; IV p0-0-1, r0-0-1; patellae IV r0-1-0; tibiae: I d0-0-0, p0- 0-0, r0-0-0; II d0-0-0, p1-0-0, v4-2-2, r0-0-0; III r1-0-1; metatarsi: I p0-0-0, v2-2-2, r0-0-0; II p1-0-0, r0-0-0; III r1-2-2. Cribellum small but apparently present. Anterior epigynal margin angular, posterior margins forming w-shaped figure capped by narrow transverse ridge; spermathecae highly coiled, without conspicuous, lateral blind ducts ( figs. 91, 92 View Figs ).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: MEXICO: Hidalgo: Apulco, Apr. 14–16, 1946 (H. Wagner, AMNH), 23; Tlanchinol , 43 km SW Huejutla, June 14–Aug. 4, 1983, flight intercept trap, cloud forest, elev. 1500 m (S., J. Peck, AMNH), 13. Veracruz: 2 mi W La Joyita on Highway 140, Aug. 22, 1977, elev. 2230 m (E. Schlinger, CAS), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Hidalgo and Veracruz, Mexico (map 4) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Zoropsidae

Genus

Zorocrates

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