Patrera dawkinsi Martínez & Brescovit & Villarreal & Oliveira 2021, new species
Creators: name: Martínez, Leonel
name: Brescovit, Antonio D.
name: Villarreal, Eduardo
name: Oliveira, Luiz Fernando M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Anyphaenidae
Patrera
Patrera dawkinsi

description: Patrera dawkinsi new species
Figures 25A–D; 33
Type material. Male holotype from Reserva Natural Río Ñambí, (1°17′4.38″N; 78°5′18.24″W), 1255m, Vereda Altaquer, Barbacoas, Nariño, Colombia, 7.VII.2017, W. Galvis leg. (ICN-Ar-10613). Paratype: one male with same locality data, 6.VII.2017, Estudiantes Laboratorio de Aracnología & Miriapodología de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (LAM-UN), A-Ara-Dio 107 leg. (MCTP).
Etymology. The specific epithet is a patronym in honor to Richard Dawkins, for his valuable contributions to the scientific divulgation and to the understanding of evolution.
Diagnosis. Males of Patrera dawkinsi n. sp. resemble those of P. witsu Dupérré & Tapia, 2016 by the shape of the ventral tegular process and by the retrolateral tibial apophysis with enlarged ventral branch (see Dupérré & Tapia, 2016:36, fig. 49), but can be diagnosed by the very elongated, larger ventral tegular process (shorter, smaller in P. witsu), retrolateral tibial apophysis with long ventral branch, apically sharp, and apically sub-rounded dorsal branch (the ventral branch is narrower and square in the apex in P. witsu) (Fig. 25 B–D).
Description. Male (Holotype, ICN-Ar-10603). Carapace brownish, darker on the cephalic region (Fig. 25A). Chelicerae dark brown. Labium and endites brown. Sternum yellowish. Legs yellow, becoming darkest from tibiae to tarsi. Abdomen dorsally pale yellow with gray spots; ventrally pale yellow. Spinnerets yellow (Fig. 25A). Total length 3.63, carapace length 1.68, width 1.27, high 0.57. Clypeus height 0.06. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.05, ALE 0.11, PME 0.09, PLE 0.09; AME–AME 0.13, AME–ALE 0.21, PME–PME 0.32, PME–PLE 0.29, ALE–PLE 0.27. Chelicerae 0.82 long, four promarginal teeth, six retromarginal denticles, one of the retromarginal denticles biggest. Leg measurements: leg I—femur 2.41/ patella 0.77/ tibia 2.88/ metatarsus 2.58/ tarsus 1.22/ total 9.86; II—2.05/ 0.68/ 2.21/ 1.83/ 0.84/ 7.61; III—1.3/ 0.58/ 1.2/ 1.45/ 0.57/ 5.1; IV—1.73/ 0.57/ 1.66/ 2.08/ 0.71/ 6.75. Leg spination: I—tibia v2-2-0, metatarsus v2-0-1; II—tibia v2-2-0, metatarsus v2-0-1; III—tibia d1-0-0, v1- 1-1, p0-1-1 r0-1-1, metatarsus v2-2-0, p1-2-2, r1-1-2 IV—tibia d1-0-0, v1-2-2, p0-1-1, r0-1-1, metatarsus v2-1-2, p1-2-2, r1-1-2 Abdomen: length 1.82, epigastric furrow 0.64 from tracheal spiracle, spiracle 0.69 from base of spinnerets. Palp: retrolateral tibial apophysis bifid, large, with the ventral branch wider and longer than dorsal branch, which is thin; cymbium almost as long as tibia; subtegulum longer than wide; tegulum longer than wide, with a strongly sclerotized, large, laminar ventral tegular process; median apophysis short, curved, apically situated; embolus short, apically filiform, with narrow base and proximally inserted on the tegulum (Fig. 25 B–D).
Female. Unknown.
Distribution. Only known from Nariño department (Fig. 33).
description: Published as part of Martínez, Leonel, Brescovit, Antonio D., Villarreal, Eduardo & Oliveira, Luiz Fernando M., 2021, An update of morphological and distributional data of the genus Patrera Simon (Araneae: Anyphaenidae: Anyphaeninae) with the description of twenty-five new species from Colombia, pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 4914 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4468383