Gypogyna Simon, 1900

Bedoya-Róqueme, Edwin, Galvis, William & Martínez, Leonel, 2018, First record of the genus Gypogyna Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae: Scopocirini) from Colombia, Peckhamia 161 (1), pp. 1-4 : 2

Gypogyna Simon, 1900

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Gypogyna Simon, 1900: 387 , type species G. forceps Simon, 1900: 387 .

Diagnosis. Males can be distiguished from those of its sister genus, Scopocira , by their rounded tegulum and presence of an embolus with more than one turn on it ( Figures 2-3 ). The window of the female epigynum is smaller than that of Scopocira . The body and legs of Gypogyna are more robust, the chelicerae of males longer and less armed, and the thoracic decline is steeper ( Figure 1 ; Galiano, 1958; Simon, 1900; pers. obs.). Reference photographs of a living male from Santa María, Misiones, Argentina were published recently by Rubio (2014: 19, fig. 44).

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Figures 1-3. Male Gypogyna forceps Simon, 1900 (CZUC-OARA-074). 1, Dorsal view. 2, Prolateral view of left pedipalp. 3, Retrolateral view of left pedipalp.

Figure 4. Known distribution of Gypogyna forceps Simon, 1900 in South America. Map by Mapswire.com (https://mapswire.com) used and modified under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.