Ochyrocera rinocerotos Dupérré, 2015, new species
Creators: name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Ochyroceratidae
Ochyrocera
Ochyrocera rinocerotos

description: Ochyrocera rinocerotos new species
Figs 13–17, map 1.
Type material. Male holotype from Ecuador, Cotopaxi Province: Otonga Biological Reserve, 04–07 September 2014, sifting litter, Berlese extraction, N. Dupérré, E. Tapia and C. Tapia (QCAZ). Two female paratypes, same data. EXAMINED.
Other material examined. Ecuador: Cotopaxi Province, San Francisco de Las Pampas, Casa César Tapia (00.42415°S 78.95719°W), 1426 m, 5 November 2013, 1♂ 2♀, sifting litter, C. Tapia, C. Tapia (MECN).
Etymology. The specific epithet is a Latin noun in apposition in reference to the rhinoceros horn-shaped cuspule of the male cymbial apophysis.
Diagnosis. Males and females can be distinguished from all Ochyrocera by their color pattern (Fig. 15). Males can be diagnosed by their unique horn-shaped cymbial cuspule (Fig. 14); females can be diagnosed by their curved spermathecae (Fig. 17).
Description. Male: Total length: 1.0; carapace length: 0.5; carapace width: 0.4.
PROSOMA: Carapace ovoid; narrowing gradually anteriorly; shiny, light yellow with purplish pattern (as in female Fig. 15); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, slightly suffused with purplish tinge; as long as wide. Endites light yellow suffused with purplish tinge; labium light yellow suffused with purplish tinge; notch. Clypeus sloping; short, diameter of PME. Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of seven teeth attached to the lamina; retromargin without teeth. EYES: Six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation about equal size (as in female Fig. 15); PME elongated oval; ALE rounded; PLE rounded. OPISTHOSOMA: Oval; uniformely green-purplish color; tracheal spiracle half way between epigastric furrow and spinnerets. LEGS: Light yellow; leg formula 4123; total length: I: 2.1; II: 2.0; III: 1.6; IV: 2.4 GENITALIA: Palpal femur long; palpal tibia enlarged basally (Fig. 14 arrow); with two dorsal trichobothria (Fig. 13). Cymbium with squared extension prolaterally (Fig. 14) and an elongated, curved, apical apophysis bearing horn-shaped cuspule at tip (Figs 13, 14). Bulb oval (Fig. 13). Embolus elongated, flexed at base and projecting forward with basally transparent point and dark spine-like tip; sperm duct slightly narrowing from beginning to the tip of embolus, with one tight loop (Figs 13, 14).
Female: Total length: 1.2; carapace length: 0.6; carapace width: 0.4.
PROSOMA: Carapace ovoid; narrowing gradually anteriorly; shiny, light yellow with purplish pattern; pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible (Fig. 15). Chelicerae, light yellow; promargin with a series of six teeth attached to the lamina; retromargin without denticles. Sternum, endites and labium: as in male. OPISTHOSOMA: Globular; uniformly green-purplish (Fig. 15); tracheal spiracle half way between epigastric furrow and spinnerets. LEGS: same as male; leg formula 4123; total length: I: 2.2; II: 1.8; III: 1.4; IV: 2.4. GENITALIA: Epigynal region swollen with small, curved median sclerotization (Fig. 16). Internal genitalia with elongated, curved spermathecae (Fig. 17).
Distribution. Ecuador: Cotopaxi Province.
Natural history. Collected in a low evergreen montane forest at an altitud of 1300m.
description: Published as part of Dupérré, Nadine, 2015, Descriptions of twelve new species of ochyroceratids (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from mainland Ecuador, pp. 451-475 in Zootaxa 3956 (4) on pages 459-461, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/238391