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Cubanops tortuguilla Sánchez-Ruiz & Platnick & Dupérré 2010, new species

Description

Cubanops tortuguilla, new species

Figures 212–218

TYPE: Female holotype taken under rock at Tortuguilla, San A. del Sur, Guantánamo, Cuba (Nov. 10, 2000; R. Teruel), deposited in BSC (593).

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females can be recognized by the laterally thickened anterior margin of the receptaculum, and the relatively long membranous sac anterior of that margin (figs. 217, 218).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE: Total length 4.14 (figs. 212–218). Carapace pale yellow with whiter areas, margins not darkened, reticulations weak, reduced to two curved, paramedian bands. Sternum orange, margins rebordered but without dark markings. Abdominal dorsum white with two pairs of anterior purple patches, posterior pair much larger than anterior, followed posteriorly by three purple chevrons. Anterior femora and tibiae slightly darkened. Sclerotized anterior margin of receptaculum with greatly thickened sides (figs. 217, 218).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cuba (Guantánamo province).

Notes

Published as part of Sánchez-Ruiz, Alexander, Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2010, A New Genus of the Spider Family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from the West Indies, pp. 1-44 in American Museum Novitates 2010 (3705) on page 42, DOI: 10.1206/3705.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4597743

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BSC
Event date
2000-11-10
Family
Caponiidae
Genus
Cubanops
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Sánchez-Ruiz & Platnick & Dupérré
Species
tortuguilla
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2000-11-10
Taxonomic concept label
Cubanops tortuguilla Sánchez-Ruiz, Platnick & Dupérré, 2010