Bryant, 1923 : 13
Tentabunda antiguensis (Bryant)
Fox 1937 : 464
Neostasina gen. nov., a new genus of huntsman spiders from the Neotropical region (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparianthinae)
Rheims, Cristina Anne
Alayón, Giraldo
Zootaxa
2016
2016-02-12
4079
3
301
344
6RXL4
(Bryant, 1923)
Rheims & Alayón
2016
Bryant
1923
[151,617,943,970]
Arachnida
Sparassidae
Neostasina
GBIF
Animalia
Araneae
9
310
Arthropoda
species
antiguensis
comb. nov.
Pseudosparianthis antiguensis Bryant, 1923: 13, plate 1, fig. 4 (Female holotypefrom Antigua & Barbuda, Antigua[ 17°04’N, 61°49’W], June 1918, IowaState University Expedition leg., deposited in MCZ 20297, examined). World Spider Catalog 2015. Tentabunda antiguensis(Bryant). Fox 1937: 464.
Diagnosis.Females of N. antiguensis comb. nov.are distinguished from those of the remaining species of the genus by the median septum roughly hexagonal with anterior and posterior margin gently procurved ( Fig. 20) and by the spermathecae S-shaped, winding before anterior twist ( Figs 21−22). Males are unknown.
Description. Female:Prosoma orange brown, mottled with small brown spots. Fovea brown. Eye borders black. Chelicerae orange brown. Legs and pedipalps orange brown. Leg femora ventrally mottled with few brown spots. Sternum yellowish orange with orange margins. Endites yellowish orange, distally cream colored. Labium yellowish orange with brown base and distally cream colored. Opisthosoma gray with irregular brown marks dorsally. Total length 16.5. Prosoma: 6.5 long, 5.4 wide. Opisthosoma: 9.6 long, 6.2 wide. Eyes: diameters: 0.28, 0.24, 0.18, 0.26; interdistances: 0.30, 0.40, 0.60, 0.68, 0.32, 0.16. Legs (1243): I: 20.1 (5.8, 3.3, 5.4, 4.6, 1.0); II: 19.8 (6.0, 3.3, 4.9, 4.6, 1.0); III: 16.2 (5.2, 2.7, 3.6, 3.8, 0.9); IV: 19.1 (5.7, 2.4, 4.4, 5.3, 1.3). Epigyne: epigynal field roughly rectangular, slightly longer than wide; anterior rim continuous, recurved ( Fig. 20). Vulva: glandular projections long and slender, two times longer than wide ( Figs 21−22). Male:unknown.
Distribution.Only known from the typelocality (Map 4).