Coptoprepes campanensis Ramírez

Werenkraut, Victoria & Ramírez, Martín J., 2009, A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the spider genus Coptoprepes Simon (Araneae: Anyphaenidae, Amaurobioidinae), Zootaxa 2212, pp. 1-40 : 5-9

Coptoprepes campanensis Ramírez

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Coptoprepes campanensis Ramírez, 2003: 87 (male holotype and female paratype from Chile, Quillota province, Palmas de Ocoa, La Campana Natl. Park, in AMNH, not reexamined).

Diagnosis: Females can be distinguished from other Coptoprepes species by the long, contorted female copulatory ducts (see Ramírez 2003: fig. 41D). Males are similar to those of C. ecotono n. sp. by lacking a RTA, but have a large, bifid, heavily sclerotized median apophysis ( Fig. 3 c, d; Ramírez 2003: fig. 39).

Description: Male and female described by Ramírez (2003).

Distribution: This species is rather densely sampled in relict forest in central Chile, from Elqui province in the North, to Región Metropolitana of Santiago. Here we report an isolated southern record about 350 km far from the known distribution.

New records: CHILE: Región VIII (Biobío): Ñuble: 60 km SE Chillán, Termas Road, 1300 m, FIT, beech forest, 7 December 1984 – 19 February 1985, S. and J. Peck, 2 females (ANMH).

Additional material examined: CHILE: Región V (Valparaíso): Quillota: Palmas de Ocoa, La Campana Natl. Park, unburned site, pitfall trap 27, 29 September 1985, R. Calderón G., 1 male ( AMNH; temporary preparation MJR-01346); same locality, 450 m, dry, rocky streamside, 5 February 1986, N. Platnick & R. T. Schuh, 1 female ( AMNH; temporary preparation VIW-00016).

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FIGURE 3. Coptoprepes campanensis Ramírez. a female dorsal habitus; b epigyne, ventral view; c male left palp, ventral view; d male left palp, retrolateral view. Preparations, female VIW- 00016, male MJR- 01346.