Mysmenopsis hunachi Dupérré & Tapia 2020
- Dataset
- Megadiverse Ecuador: a review of Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) of Ecuador, with the description of twenty-one new kleptoparasitic spider species
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Dupérré, Nadine, Tapia, Elicio (2020): Megadiverse Ecuador: a review of Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) of Ecuador, with the description of twenty-one new kleptoparasitic spider species. Zootaxa 4761 (1): 1-81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4761.1.1
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Mysmenidae
- genus
- Mysmenopsis
- species
- Mysmenopsis hunachi
description
Description. Male (holotype): Total length: 2.08; carapace length: 1.00; carapace width: 0.91; abdomen length: 1.08. Carapace dark brown, pear-shaped; suffused black along pars cephalica and radiating lines (Fig. 91). Sternum black; covered with long setae. Clypeus dark brown; high (5 x AME). Chelicerae brown suffused with black; promargin with three teeth; retromargin not observed. Eyes: eight, rounded, all approximately equal size; ocular region on protuberance; AME separated by their diameter, AME-LE touching; ALE-PLE contiguous, LE-PME separated by their diameter; PME separated by their diameter. Abdomen: rounded, light grey with mixed patterned of dark grey and whites patches (Figs 91, 92). Legs: femur I dark brown; femora II-IV light yellow with dark bands basally, medially and apically; tibia I brown with apical dark band; tibiae II-IV yellow with dark patches apically; metatarsi I-IV light orange-brown with dark band apically, tarsi light yellow; femur and tibia I enlarged, metatarsus I slightly curved. Legs spination: patellae I-IV with one macroseta; tibia I with two prolateral clasping spurs and one macroseta; metatarsus I row of six macrosetae prolatero-ventrally and two clasping spurs apically (Fig. 93); tibiae I-IV with one macroseta dorso-proximally; tibia I with three macrosetae retrolaterally; tibia II with three macrosetae ventrally. Total length leg I: 3.39 (1.03 / 0.34 / 0.93 / 0.57 / 0.52). Genitalia: palpal tibia globular; retrolateral ledge wide bearing 13 short cusps, ventral ledge absent; two retrolateral trichobothria (Fig. 94). Cymbium apically truncated, deeply excavated; paracymbium triangular not excavated prolatero-dorsally (Fig. 95). Tegulum oval (Fig. 94). Embolus short, hook-shaped, with small pointed basal apophysis (Figs 94, 96). Female: Unknown.
description
Figs 91 – 96, map 1 (yellow star).
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Males are distinguished from all species by the following combination of characters; retrolateral ledge of palpal tibia long with 13 cusps and embolus hook-shaped (Figs 94, 96).
distribution
Distribution. Only known from the type locality in Cotopaxi Province. Natural history. The male holotype and three juveniles were collected in an evergreen mountain shrubland of the western Andes (AsMn 01) (Josse & Aguirre, 2013) at 2347 m in a Linothele sp. web.
etymology
Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality, the Rio Hunachi.
materials_examined
Material examined. Male holotype from Ecuador, Cotopaxi Province, Via Sigchos-Rio Hunachi (- 0.657704 - 78.876737) 2347 m, 15 Mar. 2019, ex: Linothele sp. verdosa, E. Tapia (QCAZ). Additional material examined. Ecuador: Cotopaxi Province, Via Sigchos - Rio Hunachi (- 0.657704 - 78.876737) 2347 m, 15 Mar. 2019, 3 juv. ex: Linothele sp. verdosa, E. Tapia (QCAZ, ZMH-A 0001913).