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Ochyrocera Simon

  • 1. Collection of Arachnology (CARCIB), CIBNOR, S. C. Programa Académico de Planeación Ambiental y Conservación (PLAYCO), Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR). Km. 1 Carretera a San Juan de La Costa " El Comitán ", La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, C. P. 23205. & lat _ mactans @ yahoo. com. mx; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5385 - 3195
  • 2. Collection of Arachnology (CARCIB), CIBNOR, S. C. Programa Académico de Planeación Ambiental y Conservación (PLAYCO), Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR). Km. 1 Carretera a San Juan de La Costa " El Comitán ", La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, C. P. 23205. & chamevazquez @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3433 - 153 X

Description

Key to males of Ochyrocera species from Mexico, updated from Valdez-Mondragón (2017):

1. Palpal bulb (tegulum) rounded, massive in comparison with the cymbium length (Gertsch 1977: figs 80–81).................................................................................. Ochyrocera machadoi (Gertsch, 1977)

- Palpal bulb otherwise.................................................................................. 2

2. Cymbial apophysis conical and relatively long (Figs 7, 8)..................................................... 3

- Cymbial apophysis short and stout (Valdez-Mondragón 2009: figs 3, 4)..... Ochyrocera juquila Valdez-Mondragón 2009

3. Cymbial apophysis thickened medially (arrow in Valdez-Mondragón 2017: fig. 16)................................. 4

- Cymbial apophysis conical, not thickened medially (Valdez-Mondragón 2017: figs 4–6)............................. 5

4. Embolus slender and long, about the same length of cymbium......... Ochyrocera simoni O.P. Pickard-Cambridge 1894

- Embolus wide and relatively short, markedly shorter than cymbial length (Valdez-Mondragón 2017: fig. 15).............................................................................. Ochyrocera pojoj Valdez-Mondragón, 2017

5. Base of embolus with a brownish sclerotized region (arrows in Valdez-Mondragón 2017: figs 4, 6; Figs 8, 12)............ 6

- Base of embolus without a brownish sclerotized region....................................................... 7

6. Sclerotized region surrounding the base of embolus (arrows in Valdez-Mondragón 2017: figs 4, 6); palpal femora relatively short, about two times longer than wide.............................. Ochyrocera jarocha Valdez-Mondragón, 2017

- Sclerotized region not surrounding the base of embolus, restricted to subdorsal part of the base of embolus (Figs 8, 12); palpal femora relatively long, about three times longer than wide........................... Ochyrocera marialuisae sp. nov.

7. Embolus slender and long, D-shaped, directed toward the distal part of the tibia (Valdez-Mondragón 2009: figs 13, 14)................................................................... Ochyrocera chiapas Valdez-Mondragón 2009

- Embolus stout and short, V-shaped, directed toward the central region of cymbial apophysis (Brignoli 1974: fig. 6B)................................................................................. Ochyrocera fagei Brignoli 1974

Notes

Published as part of Valdez-Mondragón, Alejandro & Chamé-Vázquez, David, 2023, A new species of the spider genus Ochyrocera Simon (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Mexico, with biogeographical comments and an updated identification key for Mexican species, pp. 552-562 in Zootaxa 5374 (4) on page 559, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/10158907

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Simon
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Ochyroceratidae
Genus
Ochyrocera
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Valdez-Mondragon, A. (2017) On the poorly known haplogynae spiders of the genus Ochyrocera Simon (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Mexico: description of two new species with an updated identification key for Mexican species. Zootaxa, 4226 (2), 194 - 204. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4226.2.2
  • Gertsch, W. J. (1977) Report on cavernicole and epigean spiders from the Yucatan peninsula. Bulletin of the Association for Mexican Cave Studies, 6, 103 - 131.
  • Valdez-Mondragon, A. (2009) Two new species of the spider genus Ochyrocera (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Mexico. Journal of Arachnology, 37, 170 - 177. https: // doi. org / 10.1636 / A 08 - 47.1
  • Brignoli, P. M. (1974) Notes on spiders, mainly cave-dwelling, of southern Mexico and Guatemala (Araneae). Quaderno Accademia Nazional dei Lincei, 171 (2), 195 - 238.