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Orchestina aproeste Izquierdo 2017, new species

Description

Orchestina aproeste Izquierdo, new species Figures 120, 134F, map 23

TYPE: Female holotype from Brazil: Pará: Associação de Produtores e São Miguel do Oeste (APROESTE), km 350 da Transamazônica, -5.90027°, -57.69583°, Oct. 28, 2009, N. Abrahim, deposited in MPEG 015655, PBI_ OON 40487.

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

DIAGNOSIS: Females resemble those of O. moura by the shape of the anterior receptaculum, but can be distinguished by the lateral projections, emerging from its median part (fig. 134F).

MALE: Unknown; males of morphospecies MI035 from Brazil (Amazonas) are candidates to match this male (see Other material examined under MI035).

FEMALE (PBI_OON 40487): Total length 1.44. Habitus as in figure 120. CEPHALOTHORAX: Labium rectangular. LEGS: yellow (right leg IV, left legs I, II absent). GENITALIA: Besides diagnostic characters, external pockets absent; posterior receptaculum present, posterior apodeme formed by entire plate (fig. 134F).

DISTRIBUTION: Known from the states of Pará and Amazonas in Brazil (map 23).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: BRAZIL: Amazonas: Manaus: Reserva Adolpho Ducke, -2.92638°, -59.94027°, May 01, 1995, Camilo, 1♀ (MPEG 18855, PBI _OON 42158); same locality, Feb. 07, 1996, Camilo, 1♀ (MPEG 18853, PBI _OON 42172). Pará: same data as holotype, B.V.B. Rodrigues, 1♀ (MPEG 015654, PBI _OON 40486).

Notes

Published as part of Izquierdo, Matías Andrés & Ramírez, Martín J., 2017, Taxonomic Revision Of The Jumping Goblin Spiders Of The Genus Orchestina Simon, 1882, In The Americas (Araneae: Oonopidae), pp. 1 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2017 (410) on page 1, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-410.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5405613

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
PBI
Event date
1995-05-01 , 1996-02-07
Family
Oonopidae
Genus
Orchestina
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
MPEG 015654 , MPEG 18853 , MPEG 18855
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Izquierdo
Species
aproeste
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1995-05-01 , 1996-02-07
Taxonomic concept label
Orchestina aproeste Izquierdo, 2017