Ochyrocera garayae Castanheira & Pérez-González & Prado & Baptista 2019, new species
Creators: name: Castanheira, Pedro De Souza
name: Pérez-González, Abel
name: Prado, André Wanderley Do
name: Baptista, Renner Luiz Cerqueira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Ochyroceratidae
Ochyrocera
Ochyrocera garayae

description: Ochyrocera garayae new species
(Figs. 5–9; 14A)
Type material. Holotype: BRAZIL, Espírito Santo: Linhares: Reserva Natural Vale (Bicuíba, 19º09’10.3”S, 40º02’49.6”W), 24.IV.2011, looking down, D. T. Castro coll. (1 male, MNRJ 06839). Paratypes: BRAZIL, Espírito Santo: Linhares: Reserva Natural Vale (Bicuíba 19º09’10.3”S, 40º02’49.6”W), 04.II.2011, litter sieving, R. Baptista coll., (1 female, MNRJ 06842); 04.VIII.2011, litter sieving, R. Baptista & D. T. Castro coll. (1 male, 1 female, 2 immatures, UFRJ 1037); Sooretama: REBIO Sooretama (Quirinão 18º59’35.6”S, 40º08’058”W), 27.XI–01.XII.2011, pitfall traps, R. Baptista & D. T. Castro coll. (1 male, 1 female, MACN-Ar 34857 & MACN-Ar 34858, ex UFRJ 1041).
Other material examined. BRAZIL, Espírito Santo: Linhares: Reserva Natural Vale (Bicuíba 19º09’10.3”S, 40º02’49.6”W), 01–04.II.2011, pitfall traps, R. Baptista & D. T. Castro coll. (4 female, 1 immature, UFRJ 1034); 04.II.2011, litter sieving, R. Baptista coll. (1 male, 1 female, MNRJ 06843, burned in MNRJ fire); 24.IV.2011, litter sieving, D. T. Castro coll. (1 female, 2 immatures, UFRJ 1036); 24.IV.2011, looking down, D. T. Castro coll. (1 female, MNRJ 06854, burned in MNRJ fire); 27.XI.2011, looking down, D. T. Castro coll.(1 female, UFRJ 1038); 27.XI–01.XII.2011, pitfall traps, R. Baptista & D. T. Castro coll. (2 males, UFRJ 1039); (4 males, MACN-Ar 35079 ex UFRJ 1039); 01.XII.2011, litter sieving, D. T. Castro coll. (1 female, 2 immatures, UFRJ 1040); Sooretama: REBIO Sooretama (Quirinão 18º59’35.6”S, 40º08’058”W), 27.XI–01.XII.2011, pitfall traps, R. Baptista & D. T. Castro coll. (1 male, 1 female, MACN-Ar 35085 ex UFRJ 1032); 27.XI–01.XII.2011, pitfall traps, R. Baptista & D. T. Castro coll. (2 females, 3 immatures, MACN-Ar 35088 ex UFRJ 1041).
Etymology. The specific epithet is a patronymic in honor to Dr. Irene Ester Gonzalez Garay, researcher at Universidade do Brasil /Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She worked for a long time in the Tableland Forests of Sooretama and Linhares, providing foremost contributions to the understanding of the composition of the litter fauna in the area.
Diagnosis. Males of this species are similar to O. arietina Simon, 1892, O. janthinipes Simon, 1893, O. fagei Brignoli, 1974, O. hamadryas, among others. All these and similar species bear an elongated apical cymbium apophysis, with a claw-like cuspule and a bulbus varying from ovoid to oblong, with a long embolus (Figs. 6A, 7A, Simon 1892, fig. 10, Fage 1912, figs. 42, 80, 81, Brescovit et al. 2018, figs. 1C–D, 2C–E, 4C–D, 5C–F). Ochyrocera garayae new species has a genitalic pattern more similar to O. vesiculifera, as both species display a pretty similar cymbium, which gradually tapers towards an apophysis displaced to the retrolateral apical margin (not at the median line of the cymbium) (Figs. 5C, 7A, Fage, 1912, fig. 81), and a large roundish bulbus, with a ribbon-like embolus (Figs. 5 B–C, 6A, 7A, Fage, 1912, figs. 80, 81). Ochyrocera garayae new species can be set apart by the tip of the cymbial apophysis, which is clearly curved towards the median line of the cymbium, a perfectly ovoid tegulum (Figs. 6A, 7A) and a ribbon-shaped embolus, longer than the bulbus proper and with many little thorn-like projections at its dorsal face up to its apical fourth, where there is a strong constriction, and a curved and narrow tip (Figs. 6A, 7A, B, D).
On the other hand, females have a genitalia resembling those of O. tinocoi new species, as both species have a vulva composed of tubular spermatheca with adjoining pore plates, a wide membranous sac (uterus externus?), forming an anterior flap (Figs. 2C; 6C). Ochyrocera garayae new species may be set apart by the wider and shallower uterus externus, bearing a bowl-like flap, much wider than long, and by the shorter and more rugose spermathecae, also with a larger tip (Figs. 2C; 6C). Furthermore, males and females of O. garayae new species have a unique light yellow background body colour (darker in male carapace) (Fig. 5 A–F).
Description. Male (Holotype MNRJ 06839): Measurements: Total length (prosoma + opisthosoma) 1.39. Carapace 0.5 long, 0.47 wide, 0.17 high. Abdomen 0.88 long, 0.41 wide, 0.43 high. Prosoma: carapace ovoid, yellow, with a median dark blue stripe and one dark blue lateral irregular stripe on each side, mixed with some yellowish spots (Fig. 5 A–B). Dark blue V-shaped area around fovea (Fig. 5A) over the median stripe. Chelicera yellow bearing seven yellow subequal promarginal teeth between the translucent lamina and the somewhat reddish dagger-like fang (Fig. 6B). Endites yellow (Fig. 5C). Sternum yellowish with a series of small bluish spots near each coxa (Fig. 5C). Eyes: Six eyes slightly elevated moderately divided in three dyads, with PME more elevated than the others, all ringed in black located in a dark blue area (Fig. 5 A–B). Legs: pale yellow with blue patches on the distal part of articles (Fig. 5B). Leg I with three tarsal claws. Prolateral superior claw bears two rows of teeth, the medial row shorter only on apical third. Retrolateral superior claw with a single row of teeth (Fig.7C, partially hidden by prolateral superior claw). Opisthosoma (Figs. 5 A–C; 8A): longer than wide, cylindrical. Dorsum pale yellow with dark blue edge and eight patches and a terminal spot in the same colour (Fig. 5A). Venter pale yellow with a bluish spot in front of spinnerets (Fig. 5C). Epiandrous with five to seven fusules, with globular base linearly (recurved) arranged in a rugose depression anterior to epigastric furrow (Fig. 8 B–D). Anal tubercle wider than high with rounded setae (Fig. 9E). Spinnerets (Fig. 9): colulus triangular, moderately developed, with few setae irregularly distributed (Fig. 9A); ALS with one major ampullate gland spigot accompanied by a nubbin and six piriform spigots (Fig. 9B); PMS with one minor ampullate spigot (Fig. 9D); PLS has compactly packed row of 15 aciniform gland spigots with long bases (Fig. 9C). Genitalia (Figs. 6A; 7 A–B, D–F): Palpal femur tubular (Fig. 7A). Tibia tubular with a slightly incrassate base (Fig. 7A). Cymbium thick and oval, bearing a pedestal on its basis, and ending in an elongated finger-like distal terminal apophysis, a little longer than the cymbium itself, and tipped by a short curved cuspule (Figs. 6A; 7A, F). Tarsal organ elevated, striated, with two marginal cuticular lobes and one sensillum (Fig. 7E). Tegulum globose with sperm ducts diameter tapering gradually from fundus to opening (Fig. 6A). Embolus medium-sized, ribbon-shaped, with many little thorn-like projections at its dorsal face up to its apical fourth, where there is a strong constriction, and a curved and narrow tip (Fig. 7B, D).
Female (Paratype MNRJ 06842): Measurements: Total length 1.39. Carapace 0.54 long, 0.46 wide, 0.18 high. Abdomen 0.85 long, 0.57 wide, 0.66 high. Colour pattern similar to male, but a little paler (Fig. 5D). Endites bluish (Fig. 5F). Sternum with two wide longitudinal dark blue lateral stripes (Fig. 5F). Opisthosoma (Fig. 5 D–F): ovoid, slightly longer than wide. Venter with more dark blue pigment at the anterior portion, some scattered dark blue spots at median portion and a fading bluish spot before spinnerets (Fig. 5F). Genitalia (Fig. 6C): vulva with two tubular spermathecae enlarged and rounded at their apical end, with two rounded pore plates on its basis with just a few glandular pores. Membranous sac (uterus externus?) much wider than high and weakly sclerotized, extending anteriorly in a wide and bowl-like neck.
Natural History. Same as O. tinocoi new species.
Distribution. Only known from Linhares and Sooretama, both in northern Espírito Santo state, Southeastern Brazil (Fig. 14A).
description: Published as part of Castanheira, Pedro De Souza, Pérez-González, Abel, Prado, André Wanderley Do & Baptista, Renner Luiz Cerqueira, 2019, Three new species of Ochyrocera (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Southeastern Brazil, pp. 523-544 in Zootaxa 4657 (3) on pages 530-533, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/3372022