Zorocrates pie, 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 : 40-41

Zorocrates pie , new species figures 110, 111 ; map 4

TYPE: Female holotype from Pie de la Cuesta , 8 miles west of Acapulco , Guerrero, Mexico (June 29, 1941; L. Davis), deposited in AMNH .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males are unknown; females resemble those of Z. tequila in having a relatively small epigynal midpiece, but differ in having more compact, anteriorly converging spermathecae ( figs. 110, 111 ).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 5. Coloration as in Z. blas . Leg spination: femora: I d1-1-0, p0-0- 2, r0-0-0; II d1-1-0, p0-0-1, r0-0-0; III p0-1-1, r0-0-1; IV p0-0-1, r0-0-1; patellae IV p0-0-0; tibiae: I d0-0-0, p0-0-0, r0-0-0; II d0-0-0, p0-0- 1, v2-1r-2, r0-0-0; III r1-0-1; IV d1-1-1; metatarsi: I p0-0-0, v2-2-2, r0-0-0; II p0-0-1, r0-0-0; III r1-2-2; IV v3-2-2. Cribellum present. Anterior epigynal margin and midpiece relatively small, occupying only anterior onethird of epigynal length; spermathecae anteriorly convergent ( figs. 110, 111 ).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: One female taken with the holotype (AMNH).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Guerrero, Mexico (map 4).

Figures

Figs. 108–113. 108, 109. Zorocrates tequila, new species. 110, 111. Z. pie, new species. 112, 113. Z. nochix, new species. 108, 110, 112. Epigynum, ventral view. 109, 111, 113. Same, dorsal view.