Linothele cavicola Goloboff 1994
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Description
Linothele cavicola Goloboff, 1994
Linothele cavicola Goloboff, 1994: 70, figs 1-5.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Ecuador • ♀; Napo Prov., Cuevas de Jumandi; 2-3.II.1983; A. & S. Roig leg.; MACN examined.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Cuevas de Jumandi, Ecuador.
DISTRIBUTION. — Only known from the type locality.
DIAGNOSIS. — Linothele cavicola “differs from other species in the genus by having very few teeth on the STC and strong ventral setae on the tarsi. Those characters, as well as the great elongation of the legs, spinnerets, and body, are possibly associated with the cave habitat. The eyes are well developed. The pigmentation is normal, although the spider (in alcohol) appears slightly less sclerotized than other diplurines.” Goloboff (1994).
DESCRIPTION (FOLLOWING GOLOBOFF 1994)
Male
Unknown.
Female
CT = 11. MC = 36-40. Colouration in alcohol: Overall reddish brown; maculae absent. Clypeus: narrow. Sternum, labium and maxillae:see Goloboff (1994: fig.1). Leg formula:4123. Scopula divided. Preening-combs absent. Leg tarsi pseudo-segmented, see Goloboff (1994: fig. 2). Spinnerets: apical segments of the PLS rigid. Spermatheca: consisting of two erect stalks bearing a single retrolateral vesicle in 1:3A, see Goloboff (1994: fig. 3).
NATURAL HISTORY
According to Goloboff (1994), L. cavicola is known from a single cave system, where the spiders “[…] apparently do not make webs”, but “[…] were found walking on the ground, or walls of the cave […]”.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MACN
- Event date
- 1983-02-02
- Family
- Dipluridae
- Genus
- Linothele
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Goloboff
- Species
- cavicola
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1983-02-02/03
- Taxonomic concept label
- Linothele cavicola Goloboff, 1994 sec. Drolshagen & Bäckstam, 2021
References
- GOLOBOFF P. A. 1994. - Linothele cavicola, an new Diplurinae spider (Araneae, Dipluridae) from the caves in Ecuador. Journal of Arachnology 22: 70 - 72.
- KARSCH F. 1879. - Arachnologische Beitrage. Zeitschrift fur die gesammten Naturwissenschaften 52: 534 - 562.
- SIMON E. 1889 a. - Revision des Aviculariidae de la Republique de l'Ecuador. Actes de la Societe Linneenne de Bordeaux 42: 399 - 404.
- AUSSERER A. 1871. - Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor). Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft inWien 21: 117 - 224. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 16425407
- STRAND E. 1908. - Diagnosen neuer aussereuropaischer Spinnen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 32: 769 - 773.
- BRIGNOLI P. M. 1983. - A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press. 755 p.
- CHAMBERLIN R. V. 1916. - Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. The Arachnida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 60: 177 - 299. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 2748422
- DUPERRE N. & TAPIA E. 2015. - Descriptions of four kleptoparasitic spiders of the genus Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) and their potential host spider species in the genus Linothele (Araneae, Dipluridae) from Ecuador. Zootaxa 3972 (3): 343. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3972.3.3