Ciniflella lavras Brescovit, Grismado, Almeida-Silva & Ramirez, 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Brescovit, Antonio Domingos
name: Grismado, Cristian J.
name: Almeida-Silva, Lina M.
name: Ramirez, Martin J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Zoropsidae
Ciniflella
Ciniflella lavras

description: Ciniflella lavras sp. nov.
Figs 11– 16, 25E–F, 27
Ciniflella BRA, Ciniflella sp. BRA: Ramírez 2014 (scored morphological dataset).
Diagnosis. Males are similar to those of C. pains by having a very short embolus, but can be distinguished by the RTA with two tips and by the median apophysis without a small acute projection on the concave margin (Figs 11B–D, 16) (RTA with single wide tip, median apophysis with a small tooth in C. pains, Fig. 17B–D). Females can be distinguished from those of other Ciniflella by the bell-shaped median plate of the epigynum (Figs 11G, 13F, 25E–F) (narrower in other species, Figs 25C, 26).
Types. Male holotype together with 5 males and 8 females paratypes from Lavras (21°14′42″S 45°0′0″W) [- 21.24000, -45.01000], Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2002, no collector data (IBSP 39615). Paratypes: Same data, 1 male and 1 female (IBSP 39626).
Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
Description. Male (holotype, IBSP 39615). Carapace and distal leg segments yellowish brown, sternum and coxae pale yellow, opisthosoma light cream. Total length 3.28. Carapace 1.54 long, 1.14 wide. Clypeus 0.03 high. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.04, ALE 0.06, PME 0.04, PLE 0.06, AME–AME 0.02, AME–ALE 0.02, PME–PME 0.06, PME–PLE 0.04, ALE–PLE 0.02, AME–PME 0.03. Leg measurements: I: femur 1.70/ patella 0.64/ tibia 1.20/ metatarsus 1.02/ tarsus 0.64/ total 5.20; II: 1.18/0.52/0.86/0.88/0.60/4.04; III: 1.06/0.44/0.72/0.98 /0.54/3.74; IV: 1.40/0.64/1.26/1.52/0.76/5.58; leg formula: 4123. Leg spination: as in the genus pattern. Palp: RTA apex with a concave area flanked by two acute projections (Fig. 16E), median apophysis with nearly basal origin; embous very short, with tip fitting in a folded terminal part of the hyaline conductor (Fig. 16D).
Female (paratype, IBSP 36915). Coloration as in male, except by the opisthosoma light gray. Total length 4.00. Carapace 1.74 long, 1.06 wide. Clypeus 0.02 high. Cheliceral retromargin with three teeth. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.04, ALE 0.08, PME 0.08, PLE 0.10, AME–AME 0.04, AME–ALE 0.02, PME–PME 0.07, PME–PLE 0.04, ALE–PLE 0.04, AME-PM 0.03. Leg measurements: I: femur 1.36/ patella 0.70/ tibia 1.12/ metatarsus 0.86/ tarsus 0.56/ total 4.60; II: 1.14/0.50/0.80/0.76/0.48/3.68; III: 1.00/0.50/0.78/0.78/0.56/3.62; IV: 1. 40/0.64/1.24/1.42/0.68/5.38. Leg formula: 4123. Leg spination: as in the genus pattern. Epigyne: Median plate bell-shaped, relatively short, leaving visible a large part of the posterior area of median field, this last with transversal folds, flanked by the nearly rounded bulbous projections, mating plugs on depressions at the sides of median plate (Figs 11G, 13F, 25E). Copulatory ducts relatively short, spermathecae transversely oval (Figs. 13G–H, 25F).
Other material examined. None
Distribution. Known only from the type locality, in Minas Gerais, Brazil (Fig. 27).
description: Published as part of Brescovit, Antonio Domingos, Grismado, Cristian J., Almeida-Silva, Lina M. & Ramirez, Martin J., 2025, On the Neotropical spider genus Ciniflella Mello-Leitão, 1921 (Araneae: Zoropsidae, Tengellinae), pp. 345-381 in Zootaxa 5563 (1) on pages 363-367, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.21, http://zenodo.org/record/14596368