Megadiverse Ecuador: a review of Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) of Ecuador, with the description of twenty-one new kleptoparasitic spider species
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
Author
Tapia, Elicio
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-04-07
4761
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1
81
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4761.1.1
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Mysmenopsis fernandoi
Dupérré & Tapia, 2015
Figs 230, 231
, Map 1 (inverse green triangle).
Material examined.
Ecuador
:
Pichincha Province
:
Communidad
de Junin
(-00.28879 -7855665)
1285m
,
8♂
10♀
, in
Linothele
sp. web.,
4 Apr. 2016
,
E.E. Tapia
(
ZMH-A0001551
,
ZMH-A0001578
,
ZMH-A0001580
)
.
Distribution.
Ecuador
,
Cotopaxi
,
Pichincha
and
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas
Provinces.
Natural history.
The specimens were collected in a
Linothele
sp. web at
1285m
in an evergreen low mountain forest of the western Andes (BsBn04) (
Iglesis, Santiana & Chinchero, 2013
). The species inhabit the Andean ecoregion, it lives in sympatry with
M. junin
n. sp.
in
Imbabura Province
, and in sympatry with
M. chiquita
in
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas
and with
M. onorei
in the
Cotopaxi Province
(
Dupérré & Tapia 2015
).