Linothele yanachanka Duperre & Tapia 2015

Linothele yanachanka Dupérré & Tapia, 2015

Linothele yanachanka Dupérré & Tapia, 2015: 353, figs 23-29.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Ecuador • ♀; Cotopaxi Province, Parroquia San Francisco de Las Pampas, Casa CésarTapia; 0°25’26.94”S, 78°57’25.883”W; 1426 m a.s.l.; 8.XII.2014; E. Tapia and C. Tapia leg.; hand collected from web; QCAZ.

Paratypes. Ecuador • 1 ♂, 1 ♀, same collecting data as for holotype; 25.XII.2014; E.Tapia, I. Tapia and C. Tapia leg.; QCAZ.

TYPE LOCALITY. — San Francisco de Las Pampas, Ecuador.

DISTRIBUTION. — Only known from the type locality.

DIAGNOSIS. — “Females are diagnosed by their colour pattern […]; from L. gaujoni by their golden brown abdomen, black in the latter, and from L. quori by their black legs with brown tarsi […], light brown with dark bands in the latter […]. Furthermore females are distinguished by their internal genitalia with numerous vesicles medially on short to elongated stalks […]. Males are distinguished by their overall black coloration, from L. gaujoni by their black carapace without yellow setae […]; from L. quori by their black and curved embolus […], straight and light brown in the latter species […].” see Dupérré & Tapia (2015: 354).

DESCRIPTION (FOLLOWING Dupérré & Tapia 2015)

Male

CL = 11.0. CT = 13. MC = 35-40. Colouration alive: overall dark brown to black; opisthosoma “dorsally dark brown with black median band […] covered by short black setae and long black erected setae”, “laterally and ventrally uniformely black”, see Dupérré & Tapia (2015: fig. 24); maculae absent. Leg formula 4123. Preening-combs absent. Leg tarsi pseudosegmented. Palpal organ: “bulb pyriform; embolus black, curved”, see Dupérré & Tapia (2015: fig. 28). Megaspine and MP: see Dupérré & Tapia (2015: fig. 29).

Female

CL = 10.0. CT = 10. MC = 35-40. Colouration alive: as for male, but opisthosoma “dorsally orange-brown with blackpurplish median band and zigzag pattern laterally”, “ventrally uniformly orange-brown”, see Dupérré & Tapia (2015: fig. 23); maculae absent. Sternum, labium and maxillae: see Dupérré &Tapia (2015: fig. 25). Leg formula: 4123. Scopula divided. Leg tarsi pseudo-segmented.Spermathecae: “joined at base, elongated and tapering apically, with numerous vesicles medially on short to elongated stalks”, see Dupérré & Tapia (2015: figs 26, 27).

NATURAL HISTORY

According to Dupérré & Tapia (2015) the “ holotype female was collected in a 40 × 30 cm web approximately 1.5m from the ground in a secondary subtropical forest. The web was attached to a palm tree (Phytelephas macrocarpa), the base was made of dead palm tree leaves. Other specimens where collected in palm tree from 1m up to 6m high (fig. 49), and one was collected at ground level.”