Cicurina (Cicurella) bullis Cokendolpher 2004
Creators
- 1. Cave and Endangered Invertebrate Research Laboratory, SWCA Environmental Consultants, 4407 Monterey Oaks Boulevard, Building 1, Suite 110, Austin, Texas, 78749, USA. E-mail: ppaquin @ swca. com & This is publication no. 15 of the Karst Biosciences and Environmental Geophysics Research Laboratories, SWCA Environmental Consultants
- 2. American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Central Park West at 79 Street, New York, New York, 10024 USA. E-mail: nduperre @ amnh. org
Description
(Figs 20–21, 134)
Cicurina bullis Cokendolpher 2004a: 16, 18–22, 24–27, 34, 39– 41, 52, 54, figs 34–36 (description of female). — Reddell & Cokendolpher 2004: 80; Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3243–3246, 3253.
HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas: Bexar County: Isocow Cave. Zone 3. 2 March 1994, W. Elliot, G. Veni ”. Examined (AMNH).
Additional material examined. UNITED STATES: Bexar County: Platypus Pit, 30.iii.1995, 1♀ [TMM #35354], J. Reddell, M. Reyes, PARATYPE (TMM); Root Canal Cave (Camp Bullis), 20.iv.1999 (molted on 25.viii.1999, 09.iv.2000 and matured on 03.xii.2000), 1♀, J. Reddell, M. Reyes, PARATYPE (TMM); Eagles Nest Cave (Camp Bullis), 01.xi.2001, 1♀ [TMM #34452] J. Reddell, M. Reyes, PARATYPE (TMM); Hilger Hole (Camp Bullis), 15.xii.2000, 1♀, J. Reddell, M. Reyes, PARATYPE (TMM).
Description. Female holotype
Total length: 3.96; carapace length: 1.80; carapace width: 1.26; opisthosoma length: 2.16. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (1 large, 2 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 7 denticles (3 large, 4 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 5.15; femur: 1.35; patella: 0.55; tibia: 1.25; metatarsus: 1.20; tarsus: 0.80; leg IV: total length: 5.95; femur: 1.65; patella: 0.55; tibia: 1.35; metatarsus: 1.55; tarsus: 0.85. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum: 0.350 mm. Epigynal ventral plate with long transverse slit, bearing medial, shallow indentation; atrium rectangular, half intruded by dorsal plate, atrial aperture small; bursa enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts touching at midpoint, reaching slightly over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores not visible; stalk, short, straight, horizontal, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe earshaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, externally positioned from dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
Distribution. Known from five caves in Bexar County (Texas, Fig. 134): Eagles Nest Cave, Hilger Hole, Isocow Cave (type locality), Platypus Pit, and Root Canal Cave.
Remarks. Male unknown. Data added in Cokendolpher (2004a) for holotype “top of 3.6 m drop to top of 4.6 m Pit”. According to Cokendolpher (2004a), C. bullis and C. platypus are found in sympatry in Platypus Pit, the type locality of C. platypus.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFFC2F4FFFD6FFFFFFC7FFA4D12FFFC0 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03C55737FFC6FFEFFF50FCA6D319F8AC (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH , TMM
- Event date
- 1994-03-02 , 1995-03-30 , 1999-04-20 , 2000-12-15 , 2001-11-01
- Family
- Hahniidae
- Genus
- Cicurina
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- TMM #34452 , TMM #35354
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Cokendolpher
- Species
- bullis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Verbatim event date
- 1994-03-02 , 1995-03-30 , 1999-04-20/2000-12-03 , 2000-12-15 , 2001-11-01
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cicurina (Cicurella) bullis Cokendolpher, 2004 sec. Paquin & Dupérré, 2009
References
- Cokendolpher, J. C. (2004 a) Cicurina spiders from caves in Bexar County, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs, 6. Studies on the cave and endogean fauna of North America, 4, 13 - 58.
- Reddell, J. R. & Cokendolpher, J. C. (2004) The cave spiders (Araneae) of Bexar and Comal counties, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs, 6. Studies on the cave and endogean fauna of North America, IV, 75 - 94.
- Paquin, P., & Hedin, M. (2004) The power and perils of ' molecular taxonomy': a case study of eyeless and endangered relatives. Report to Fish and Wildlife Services (Austin, Texas, U. S. A). 1 - 40 p.