Enna osaensis, Cruz, Estevam L., Silva, Da, Viquez, Carlos & Lise, Arno A., 2012

Cruz, Estevam L., Silva, Da, Viquez, Carlos & Lise, Arno A., 2012, On the Neotropical spider genera Enna O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897 and Syntrechalea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 (Araneae, Lycosoidea, Trechaleidae): descriptions, taxonomic notes and new records, Zootaxa 3334, pp. 55-62 : 58-59

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.281291

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6173856

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FF87FB-7F01-4908-FF44-FA0C1AABFE64

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scientific name

Enna osaensis
status

sp. nov.

Enna osaensis View in CoL new species

Figs 5, 6 View FIGURES 1 – 6. 1, 2

Type material: Holotype: female from Peninsula de Osa, Rio Agujas, Quebrada Salitre [09°45”N, 83°45’W] Puntarenas, Costa Rica, 14.II.1998, M. Lobo, ( INBio).

Etymology. The specific name is a noun and refers to the type locality.

Diagnosis. The female of E. osaensis sp. nov. ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1 – 6. 1, 2 ) resembles those of E. rothi Silva, Lise & Carico 2008 by the shape of the median field and anterior margin of the epigynum apophysis (Silva et al. 2008, p. 87, fig. 48), but can be distinguished by the presence of large accessory spermathecae ( AS) and by the rounded head of spermathecae (HS) without distal projections ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 1 – 6. 1, 2 ).

Description. Female (Holotype, INBio). Total length 11.97. Carapace 7.05 long and 5.05 wide, dark brown with a median light brown band. Clypeus light brown, 0.46 high. Anterior eye row straight, 1.24 wide; posterior 2.32 wide. Eye diameters, interdistances, and median ocular quadrangle: AME 0.22, ALE 0.16, PME 0.26, PLE 0.15; AME-AME 0.22, AME-ALE 0.14, PME-PME 0.66, PME-PLE 0.50, OQA 0.56, OQP 1.22, OQH 0.68. Chelicerae dark brown, bristly; promargin and retromargin of fang furrow with three teeth equidistant and equal in size.

Sternum light brown, bristly; 2.66 long, 2.79 wide. Labium light brown, slightly lighter anteriorly, 0.79 long, 1.19 wide. Legs dark brown, unmarked, relative length: IV-I-I-III, I – femur 5.98/ tibia-patella 8.91/ metatarsus 5.71/ tarsus 2.26/ total 22.86; II – 5.88/ 9.04/ 5.45/ 2.12/ 22.49; III – 5.17/ 6.91/ 4.65/ 1.72/ 18.45; IV – 6.11/ 7.98/ 6.65/ 2.66/ 23.40. Ventral pairs of macrosetae on tibiae: I-4; II-4; III-3; IV-3. Abdomen, 7.71 long, dorsum dark gray with three light brown median bands; bristly, with three pairs of sigilla. Venter light gray, with scattered setae. Epigynum with two lateral rounded projections on the middle field of epigynum ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1 – 6. 1, 2 ). Head of spermathecae rounded with conspicuous and large accessory spermathecae ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 1 – 6. 1, 2 ).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Costa Rica.

INBio

National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Rica

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Trechaleidae

Genus

Enna

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