Cicurina (Cicurella) vespera Gertsch 1992
Authors/Creators
- 1. Cave and Endangered Invertebrate Research Laboratory, SWCA Environmental Consultants, 4407 Monterey Oaks Boulevard, Building 1, Suite 110, Austin, Texas, 78749, USA. E-mail: ppaquin @ swca. com & This is publication no. 15 of the Karst Biosciences and Environmental Geophysics Research Laboratories, SWCA Environmental Consultants
- 2. American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Central Park West at 79 Street, New York, New York, 10024 USA. E-mail: nduperre @ amnh. org
Description
(Figs 118–119, 134)
Cicurina vespera Gertsch 1992: 111, figs 93–94 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162, 171; Cokendolpher 2004a: 19–20, 24, 27, 34, 41, 47–48, 53, 57 figs 65–66; Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3239, 3241, 3243–3249, 3254; Reddell & Cokendolpher 2004: 81.
HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Bexar County, Government Canyon Bat Cave, 5 miles SW of Helotes, August 11 1965, J. Reddell, J. Fish ”. Examined (AMNH).
Description. Female holotype
Total length: 2.48; carapace length: 0.81; carapace width: 0.59; opisthosoma length: 1.68. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 4 denticles (2 large, 2 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 2.58; femur: 0.78; patella: 0.28; tibia: 0.60; metatarsus: 0.50; tarsus: 0.43; leg IV: total length: 2.82; femur: 0.78; patella: 0.29; tibia: 0.62; metatarsus: 0.65; tarsus: 0.48. Tarsal claw IV: 0.06. Epigynum: 0.175 (half size). Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit; bursa enlarged; copulatory ducts, reaching slightly over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located medially; primary pores not visible; stalk short, straight, obliquely directed, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe ear- shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, externally positioned from the dictynoid pore.
Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Government Canyon Bat Cave (Bexar County, Texas, Fig. 134).
Remarks. Male unknown. The holotype identification label was “ Cicurina verpsera ”. This misspelling was corrected in Gertsch (1992). The description of the epigynum is incomplete because the epigynum is heavily damaged. This species is included on the U.S. Federal list of endangered species (Longacre 2000).
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1965-08-11
- Verbatim event date
- 1965-08-11
- Scientific name authorship
- Gertsch
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Hahniidae
- Genus
- Cicurina
- Species
- vespera
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cicurina (Cicurella) vespera Gertsch, 1992 sec. Paquin & Dupérré, 2009
References
- Gertsch, W. J. (1992). Distribution patterns and speciation in North American cave spiders with a list of the troglobites and revision of the cicurinas of the subgenus Cicurella. Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs, 3. Studies on the endogean fauna of North America. 2, 75 - 122.
- Jackman, J. A. (1997) A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Houston, Texas: Gulf Publishing Company. xiv + 201 pp. + 32 plates.
- Cokendolpher, J. C. (2004 a) Cicurina spiders from caves in Bexar County, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs, 6. Studies on the cave and endogean fauna of North America, 4, 13 - 58.
- Paquin, P., & Hedin, M. (2004) The power and perils of ' molecular taxonomy': a case study of eyeless and endangered relatives. Report to Fish and Wildlife Services (Austin, Texas, U. S. A). 1 - 40 p.
- Reddell, J. R. & Cokendolpher, J. C. (2004) The cave spiders (Araneae) of Bexar and Comal counties, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs, 6. Studies on the cave and endogean fauna of North America, IV, 75 - 94.
- Longacre, C. (2000) Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 50 CFR part 17, RIN 1018 - AF 33. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; final rule to list nine Bexar County, Texas Invertebrate species as endangered. Federal Register, 65 (248), 81419 - 81433.