Cicurina (Cicurella) venii 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 116–117, 134)
Cicurina venii Gertsch 1992: 111, figs 95–96 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162, 171; Cokendolpher 2004a: 19–20, 24–25, 27–28, 34, 52–54, figs 63–64; Reddell & Cokendolpher 2004: 81; Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3249.
HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Braken Bat Cave, Bexar Co., 22 November 1980. George Veni”. Examined (AMNH).
Description. Female holotype
Carapace length: 1.62; carapace width: 1.17. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (1 large, 2 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 6 denticles (3 large, 3 small), left side likewise. Epigynum: 0.28 (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 aperture small; bursa not enlarged nor fused; copulatory ducts touching at midpoint, rounded, reaching over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores not visible; stalk short, straight, horizontally directed, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore elongated; primary lobe bean-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, internally positioned from the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Braken Bat Cave (Bexar County) (Fig. 134).
Remarks. Male unknown. Even though the epigynum is damaged, the remnants were enough to produce a complete description. The opisthosoma however, is missing. The entrance of Bracken Bat Cave has unfortunately been sealed with concrete. This species is included on the U.S. Federal list of endangered species (Longacre 2000).
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1980-11-22
- Verbatim event date
- 1980-11-22
- Scientific name authorship
- Gertsch
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Hahniidae
- Genus
- Cicurina
- Species
- venii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cicurina (Cicurella) venii 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.
- 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.
- Longacre, C. (2000) Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 50 CFR part 17, RIN 1018 - AF 33. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; final rule to list nine Bexar County, Texas Invertebrate species as endangered. Federal Register, 65 (248), 81419 - 81433.