Medionops cauca Martínez & Sánchez-Ruiz & Bonaldo 2021, sp. nov.
- 1. Grupo de Investigación Biodiversidad del Caribe Colombiano, Semillero de Investigación Sistemática de Artrópodos Neotropicales, Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia.
- 2. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia, Av. Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, CEP 66077 - 830, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Description
Medionops cauca sp. nov.
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Figs 3, 6, 7C
DiagnosisMales of M. cauca sp. nov. are readily recognized from other species of Medionops by the embolus strongly angled at the base and slightly sinuous (Figs 3C–D, 7C). Females unknown.
EtymologyThe specific epithet refers to the type locality ‘ Cauca department’; noun in apposition.
Type materialHolotype COLOMBIA • ♂; Cauca department, Parque Natural Nacional Isla Gorgona, Antigua Laguna Claro; 2°58′ N, 78°11′ W; alt. 70 m; 11 Apr. 2000; R. Duque leg.; IAvH-I 3788.
DescriptionMale (holotype, Figs 3A–D, 7C)
MEASUREMENTS. Total length 3.84. Carapace 1.76 long, 1.34 wide. Sternum 1.06 long, 0.86 wide. Legs: I: 3.61; II: 3.43; III: 2.79; IV: 4.15.
COLORATION. Carapace, chelicerae, sternum, palps and legs orange (Fig. 3A); coxae, trochanters and tarsi lighter. Endites and labium light orange (Fig. 3B). Abdomen dorsally dark gray with dorsal pattern formed by five whitish gray chevron stripes, medially joined by thin longitudinal band, and laterally extended as thin stripes; ventrally yellowish (Fig. 3A–B).
LEGS AND PALPS. Crista unnoticeable; gladius with common nopine shape. Palp with spherical oval tegulum and slightly sinuous embolus longer than cymbium and strongly angled at base (Figs 3C–D, 7C), with acuminate tip and rounded opening.
Female
Unknown.
DistributionKnown only from the type locality in Colombia (Fig. 6).
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Additional details
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- R
- Event date
- 2000-04-11
- Family
- Caponiidae
- Genus
- Medionops
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- IAvH-I 3788
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Martínez & Sánchez-Ruiz & Bonaldo
- Species
- cauca
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 2000-04-11
- Taxonomic concept label
- Medionops cauca Martínez, Sánchez-Ruiz & Bonaldo, 2021