Actinopus clavero Rios-Tamayo & Goloboff 2018
Creators: name: Miglio, Laura Tavares
name: Pérez-Miles, Fernando
name: Bonaldo, Alexandre B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Actinopodidae
Actinopus
Actinopus clavero

description: Actinopus clavero Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2018
Figs 207–209, Map 15
Actinopus clavero Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2018: 14, fig. 4 A–H, 5 A–D, 43 (holotype ♂, [31º 46’ S 64º 59’ W], Nono, Córdoba, Argentina, i.1998, P. Goloboff and C. Szumik leg., MACN-Ar 36533; paratype ♀, [31º 36’ S 64º 54’ W], Camino a Villa Carlos Paz, 15km de Mina Clavero, Córdoba, Argentina, i.1981, P. Grosso, A. Zanetic and A. Goloboff leg., MACN-Ar 36533); World Spider Catalog, 2020.
Diagnosis. Males of Actinopus clavero are unique in Actinopus by the shape of the copulatory bulb, with embolus elongated and winding along longitudinal line of tegulum, resembling in that regard the shape of the copulatory bulb in Missulena. (Fig. 209 A–C); they also present the dorsal surface of ocular area and chelicerae slightly granulated (Fig. 207 B) and three spines on basal third on dorsal surface of tibia III (Fig. 208 C). Females are unique in Actinopus by the shape of receptacles, very elongated and with a tapered apex.
MALE (MACN-Ar 19827): Total length 12.25; Carapace, long 5.37; wide 5. Carapace rounded. Anterior eye row slightly procurved, posterior row slightly recurved (Fig. 207 B). With short and weak bristles between AMEclypeus, betweenALE–ALP,between posterior eyes-fovea and lateral eyes-edge of carapace. Sternum with eight sigilla converging to the middle but separeted (Fig. 207 C). Rastellum protuberant, digitiform, hirsute, with many short spines covering apex (Fig. 207 E–F). Chelicerae with twelve denticles along prolateral row of teeth. Prolateral row with six megateeth. Retrolateral row with five megateeth and one tooth between two basal megateeth (Fig. 207 D). Patella and tibia III with distal crown of well-developed thorns, not interrupted in middle (Fig. 208 A–B). Patellae III and IV with spines on prolaterodorsal face (Fig. 208 A, C). Tibia IV without spines on dorsal surface (Fig. 208 D). Ventral pseudoscopulae occupying 50% of tarsus I, 70% of II, 20% of metatarsi IV and 100% of III and IV. Pseudoscopula of tarsi I, II and metatarsi IV with setae spaced, forming diffuse group of bristles; On tarsi III and IV, compact. Carapace, chelicerae, sternum, coxae, trochantera, femora, patellae, tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi reddish brown; Abdomen pale brown with a scutum covering 1/3 of anterior dorsal surface o abdomen (Fig. 207 A). Eyes: Diameters: PME 0.2, PLE 0.24, ALE 0.32, AME 0.2; MOQ: Length 0.8, front width 2.64, back width 2.56; Interdistances: PME–PME 1.4, PLE–PME 0.2, AME–AME 0.28, ALE–AME 0.8, ALE–PLE 0.44, AME–PME 0.52. Ocular area: OAL 3.75, OAW 3.12, and IF 1.75. Body: Clypeus: 0.25; Fovea: 2.25; Labium: long 1.12; wide 1.12; Chelicerae: long 3.12; wide 1; Sternum: long 3.37; wide 3.12. Abdomen: long 6.5; wide 5. Leg measurements: I: Fe 5.62/ Pa 2.25/ Ti 3.12/ Me 3.87/ Ta 2/ total 16.87. II: 5.12/ 2.25/ 3/ 3.75/ 2/ 16.12. III: 3.87/ 2.25/ 2.37/ 3.75/ 2.12 /14.37. IV: 5/ 2.5/ 3.87/ 4.25/ 2.25/ 17.87. Formula 4123. Spination: I—Fe v0, d0, p0, r0; Pa v0, d0, p0, r0; ti v3-6-15, d0, p0-0-4, r2-2-4; Me v6-9-10, d0, p1-3-2, r1-3-3; ta v3-6-4, d0, p0-1-3, r1-2-3. II—Fe v0, d0, p0, r0; Pa v0, d0, p0, r0; ti v4-5-7, d0, p1- 3-3, r0-0-2; Me v4-5-1, d0, p1-2-2, r1-2-3; ta v0-4-4, d0, p1-1-2, r1-0-1. III—Fe v0, d0-4-8, p0, r0; Pa v0, d8-10- 29, p3-0-11, r0-0-4; ti v0, d3-0-11, p1-1-1, r0-2-4; Me v0- 0-2, d4-7-5, p1-1-2, r1-2-2; ta v0-0-2, d0, p1-2-3, r0-3-4; IV—Fe v0, d0, p0, r0; Pa v0, d21-23-8, p0, r0; ti v0, d0, p0, r0; Me v0, d0-0-1, p1-0-2, r0-0-1; ta v0, d0, p1-6-7, r1-4-3. Palp: PA conspicuous and continuous to surface between PS and PI. Embolus with two keels (PI and PS). BTA developed and displaced dorsally in relation to a middle longitudinal line along prolateral tegular surface; serrated area absent; embolus elongated, thin, winding along longitudinal line of tegulum (Fig. 209 A–C).
Material examined. ARGENTINA: Córdoba: Los Cocos [30º 55’24.03” S 64º 29’ 56.73” W], 1♂, x–xi.1995, M. Rumboll leg. (MACN-Ar 19827).
Distribution. ARGENTINA: Córdoba: Los Cocos (Map 15).
description: Published as part of Miglio, Laura Tavares, Pérez-Miles, Fernando & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2020, Taxonomic Revision of the Spider Genus Actinopus Perty, 1833 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Actinopodidae), pp. 1-256 in Megataxa 2 (1) on pages 229-231, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.2.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5597237