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Carteronius myene Eb.Bonaldo & Ramírez & Om.Labarque & Shimano & Silva-Junior & Haddad 2022, sp. nov.

  • 1. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa do Pantanal, Campus Avançado do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Cuiabá, 78060 - 900 Mato Grosso, Brazil. shimano. yulie @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2931 - 4719
  • 2. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi-MPEG, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Aracnologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, CEP: 66077 - 830, Belém, Pará, Brazil & Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia-Universidade Federal do Pará-Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi claudiojr. uepa @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1300 - 8872
  • 3. Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, P. O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa haddadCR @ ufs. ac. za; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2317 - 7760

Description

Carteronius myene Bonaldo & Labarque sp. nov.

Figs 13A, B; 14A, B; Map 1

Type. ♀ holotype from Parc National de Moukalaba-Doudou, Département de Ndougou, Province de Ogooué Maritime (02°35’S, 10°14’E), GABON, III–IV.2003, O.S.G. Olivier & M. Burger leg. (forêt marecaguese) (MRAC 220.827).

Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition referring to the Myene people, which settled fishing communities along the coast of Gabon.

Diagnosis. Females of Carteronius myene sp. nov. resemble those of C. gentilis comb. nov. by the slightly curved epigynal transversal ridge (Figs 14A, 19C), but can be recognized by the posterior sector relatively larger; spermathecae barely visible by transparency in anterior sector (Fig. 14A).

Description. Male. unknown. Female. (MRAC 220.827). Measurements: Total length 11.29, CL 5.29, CW 4.85, AL 6.33, AW 4.59, SL 2.64, SW 2.30. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.42, ALE 0.34, PLE 0.29, PME 0.32, AME-AME 0.32, AME-ALE 0.37, ALE-ALE 2.32, PME-PME 0.39, PME-PLE 0.62, PLE-PLE 2.71. Length of leg segments: I 4.68+2.28+4.48+3.46+1.34=16.24; II 4.96+2.29+4.27+3.58+1.41=16.58; III 3.59+1.71+2.83+2. 81+1.00=11.29; IV 4.03+1.69+3.43+3.44+1.15=13.74. Chelicerae: promargin with three spaced teeth, median tooth largest; retromargin with two spaced teeth, proximal tooth largest; Leg spination: femora: II do 0-1-0, III do 0-1-0 ve 0-1-0, IV do 1-0-0; tibiae: I ve 2-2-2-2-2-2, II ve 2-2-2-2-2, III ve 2-2, IV ve 1-0-1; metatarsi: I ve 2-2-2-2, II ve 1 p -1 p -0-1 r -2, III pl 0-0-0-1 rl 0-0-0-1 ve 2-2-1, IV pl 2-0-1-0 ve 0-1-0 -0. Coloration: Carapace and chelicerae dark reddish-brown. Endites, labium and sternum dark reddish-brown. Legs reddish-brown, with femora I and II darker. Abdomen dark gray, with several small white spots, two pairs of small white spots in middle dorsally, and three faint chevrons posteriorly. Venter gray, with irregular white spots forming two transversal lines (Fig. 13A). Epigynum: CDv long, gently arched, ST2 tapering, anteriorly located, gland ducts present, approximately same size as ST1; CDd folded ventrally (Fig. 14B).

Other material examined. None.

Distribution. Only known from Gabon (Map 1).

Notes

Published as part of Eb. Bonaldo, Ramírez, Martín J., Om. Labarque, Shimano, Yulie, Silva-Junior, Cláudio J. & Haddad, Charles R., 2022, Switching identities: a revision of the Afrotropical spider genus Carteronius Simon 1897 (Araneae, Corinnidae), senior synonym of Mandaneta Strand, 1932, with a new genus of the Pronophaea group, pp. 343-373 in Zootaxa 5205 (4) on pages 358-359, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5205.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7307035

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Biodiversity

Collection code
MRAC
Material sample ID
MRAC 220.827
Scientific name authorship
Eb.Bonaldo & Ramírez & Om.Labarque & Shimano & Silva-Junior & Haddad
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Clubionidae
Genus
Carteronius
Species
myene
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Carteronius myene Bonaldo & Labarque, 2022