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Neocybaeina burnetti Bennett & Copley & Copley 2023, spec. nov.

  • 1. robb. bennett @ shaw. ca; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6587 - 7079
  • 2. ccopley @ royalbcmuseum. bc. ca; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8184 - 5819
  • 3. dcopley @ royalbcmuseum. bc. ca; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1944 - 4272

Description

Neocybaeina burnetti Bennett spec. nov.

Figs 40–42, 84

Type material. U.S.A.: Oregon: Holotype female. Curry County, 12 miles northeast of Gold Beach, 30.ix.1959, V.D. Roth (CAS). Paratypes. Curry, 3♀, Carpenterville, 31(sic). ix.1959, V.D. Roth (CAS); 1♀, 12 mi. N of Gold Beach, 1.x.1959, V.D. Roth (AMNH).

Etymology. The specific name is a patronym honouring the late blues musician, lyricist, and band leader Chester “Howling Wolf” Burnett.

Diagnosis. The male of N. burnetti spec. nov. is unknown. The females of N. burnetti spec. nov. and N. xantha comb. nov. can be distinguished by, in the former, the strongly arched atrium (Figs 40–41), the copulatory ducts proceeding posterolaterally from the atrium (Figs 41–42), and the longitudinal orientation of the spermathecal stalks (Fig. 42). In the female of N. xantha comb. nov. the atrium is weakly convex (Figs 36, 38) or represented by a pair of tiny, widely separated openings (Fig. 39), the copulatory ducts proceed anterodorsally from the atrium (Figs 38–39), and the spermathecal stalks are transversely oriented (Figs 37, 39).

Description. As in diagnosis and description of the genus and the diagnosis of this species.Additional descriptive characters presented here. Abdomen patterned, legs unbanded.

Male: Unknown.

Female: (n=5). Epigyne (Fig. 40) with a single anteriorly located atrial opening. Vulva (Figs 41–42) with very short copulatory ducts with posterior-most portion heavily sclerotized and visible ventrally through epigynal integument as two darkened areas (Fig. 40); spermathecal heads at anterior margin of spermathecae, undifferentiated from spermathecal stalks; stalks short; Bennett’s glands large, conspicuous; spermathecal bases usually visible through epigynal integument (Fig. 40) with short, slightly constricted anterior region adjacent to Bennett’s glands and elongate, oval, bulbous posterior region; fertilization ducts attached to ventral surface of posterior region of bases.

Measurements (n=3). CL 1.68, 1.98, 2.00; CW 1.25, 1.45, 1.48; SL 0.95, 1.08, 1.13; SW 0.87, 0.99, 1.03. Holotype listed second.

Distribution and natural history. (Fig. 84). Neocybaeina burnetti spec. nov. is known only from a small area of Curry County in coastal southwestern Oregon, U.S.A. The conservation status of this species is unknown: all specimens were collected during a 2–3 day period in late September and early October 1959 and apparently no specimens have been collected subsequently.

Notes

Published as part of Bennett, Robb, Copley, Claudia & Copley, Darren, 2023, Revision of the western Nearctic spider genus Cybaeina including the description of Neocybaeina gen. nov. and Rothaeina gen. nov. (Araneae: Cybaeidae: Cybaeinae), pp. 97-129 in Zootaxa 5318 (1) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5318.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/8158357

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH , CAS
Event date
1959-09-30 , 1959-10-01
Family
Cybaeidae
Genus
Neocybaeina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Bennett & Copley & Copley
Species
burnetti
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
1959-09-30 , 1959-10-01
Taxonomic concept label
Neocybaeina burnetti Bennett, 2023