Cicurina (Cicurella) uvalde Gertsch 1992
Authors/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 112–113, 135)
Cicurina uvalde Gertsch 1992: 103, figs 101–102 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162.
HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Uvalde County. Rambie’s Cave, 8 miles N of Uvalde, April 6, 1963 J. Reddell, D. McKenzie ”. Examined (AMNH).
Description. Female holotype
Epigynum length: 0.161 (half size). Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit, bearing medial, shallow, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium squared, two-thirds intruded by rounded dorsal plate, atrial Cicurina uvalde Gertsch 1992. 114–115 Cicurina venefica Gertsch 1992. 116–117 Cicurina venii Gertsch 1992. 118–119 Cicurina vespera Gertsch 1992. 120–121 Cicurina vibora Gertsch 1992. 122–123 Cicurina wartoni Gertsch 1992. 124–125 Cicurina watersi Gertsch 1992. 126–127 Cicurina wiltoni Gertsch 1992. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.
Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Rambie’s Cave (Uvalde County, Texas, Fig. 135).
Remarks. Male unknown. The holotype vial contained a broken epigynum and one mature female not dissected. We are presuming that the broken epigynum is the remnant of the holotype represented by Gertsch because he drew ventral and dorsal views (Figs 101–102) that could only be seen with a dissected specimen. Gertsch (1992) did not mentioned any other mature specimen other than the holotype for the species, only 18 immatures that were not found in the vial. The description presented here for Cicurina uvalde is incomplete because the holotype is damaged.
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1963-04-06
- Verbatim event date
- 1963-04-06
- Scientific name authorship
- Gertsch
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Hahniidae
- Genus
- Cicurina
- Species
- uvalde
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cicurina (Cicurella) uvalde Gertsch, 1992 sec. Paquin & Dupérré, 2009
References
- Gertsch, W. J. (1992). Distribution patterns and speciation in North American cave spiders with a list of the troglobites and revision of the cicurinas of the subgenus Cicurella. Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs, 3. Studies on the endogean fauna of North America. 2, 75 - 122.
- Jackman, J. A. (1997) A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Houston, Texas: Gulf Publishing Company. xiv + 201 pp. + 32 plates.