Orchestina saudade Izquierdo 2017, new species
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TYPE: Female from Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul: São Francisco de Paula: Potreiro Velho, -29.73333°, -50.40000°, June 01, 2002, Luis A. Bertoncello et al. leg., deposited in MCTP 24655, PBI_OON 43353; same data, 1 female paratype deposited in MCTP 24630, PBI_OON 43355.
ETYMOLOGY: A noun in apposition; saudade is a word commonly used in the Brazilian music and literature to describe a bittersweet nostalgic feeling of both loss and fond memory of something or somone. We name this species saudade inspired by the song “chega de saudade” by the Brazilian musicians Vinicius da Moraes and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
DIAGNOSIS: Females resemble those of O. catarina and O. itapety by having external pockets but can be distinguished by the smaller size of the pockets and the more developed anterior receptaculum (figs. 136E, 139D, 143D).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 43353): Total length 1.36. Habitus as in figure 127A–C. ABDOMEN: Epigastric region weakly sclerotized. GENITALIA: As in diagnosis; internal pockets absent; posterior receptaculum absent, posterior apodeme formed by entire plate.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality in Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, map 25).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2002-06-01
- Verbatim event date
- 2002-06-01
- Scientific name authorship
- Izquierdo
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Oonopidae
- Genus
- Orchestina
- Species
- saudade
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Orchestina saudade Izquierdo, 2017