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Cicurina (Cicurella) mixmaster Cokendolpher & Reddell 2001

  • 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

Cicurina (Cicurella) mixmaster Cokendolpher & Reddell 2001

(Figs 62–63, 129)

Cicurina mixmaster Cokendolpher & Reddell 2001: 41, figs 8–9 (description of female). Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3243–3246, 3249, 3253; Taylor et al. 2005: 98.

HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas: Coryell County: Mixmaster Cave, Fort Hood. 5 Nov. 1998. J. Cokendolpher, J. Krejca, J. Reddell, M. Reyes ”. Examined (AMNH).

Description. Female holotype

Total length: 5.76; carapace length: 2.79; carapace width: 1.98; opisthosoma length: 2.97. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 7 denticles (3 large, 4 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 7.98; femur: 2.30; patella: 0.83; tibia: 1.80; metatarsus: 1.85; tarsus: 1,20; leg IV: total length: 9.35; femur: 2.50; patella: 0.80; tibia: 2.25; metatarsus: 2.55; tarsus: 1.25. Tarsal claw IV: 0.17. Epigynum: 0.406 mm. Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit, bearing medial, very deep, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium square, almost completely intruded by dome-shaped dorsal plate, atrial aperture small; bursa not enlarged nor fused; copulatory ducts separated at midpoint, reaching top primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located medially; primary pore visible (1 seen); stalk short, straight, obliquely directed, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe hat-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, reaching primary pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.

Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Mixmaster Cave (Coryell County, Texas, Fig. 129).

Remarks. Male unknown.

Notes

Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 33

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Event date
1998-11-05
Verbatim event date
1998-11-05
Scientific name authorship
Cokendolpher & Reddell
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Hahniidae
Genus
Cicurina
Species
mixmaster
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Cicurina (Cicurella) mixmaster Cokendolpher, 2001 sec. Paquin & Dupérré, 2009

References

  • Cokendolpher, J. C. & Reddell, J. R. (2001) Cave spiders (Araneae) of Fort Hood, Texas, with descriptions of new species of Cicurina (Dictynidae) and Neoleptoneta (Leptonetidae). Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs, 5. Studies on the cave and endogean fauna of North America, 3: 35 - 56.
  • 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.
  • Taylor, S. J., Krejka, J. K. & Denight, M. L. (2005) Foraging range and habitat use of Ceuthophilus secretus (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae), a key trogloxene in Central Texas cave communities. American Midland Naturalist, 154, 97 - 114.