Patrera florezi 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 florezi

description: Patrera florezi new species
Figures 16 A–G; 32
Type material. Male holotype from Hacienda Hierba Buena (10°53′27.3″N; 73°59′43.9″W), 2040m, San Pedro de La Sierra, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia, 10.XI.2015, L. Martínez leg. (ICN-Ar-9668). Paratypes: two females with same data as holotype (ICN-Ar-9669, ICN-Ar-9670).
Other material examined. COLOMBIA, Magdalena: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, San Pedro de La Sierra, Hacienda Hierba Buena (10°53′27.3″N; 73°59′43.9″W), 2040m, ♁1, ♀ 1, 23.XI.2017, L. Martínez leg. (ICN-Ar- 10626).
Etymology. The specific epithet is a patronym in honor to Eduardo Florez Daza, for his contributions to arachnology in Colombia and for his support and advice to the first and third authors in the studies of Colombian spiders.
Diagnosis. Males of Patrera florezi n. sp. resemble those of, P. wiwa n. sp. and P. yukpa n. sp. by having the cymbium similarly shaped, S-shaped, long embolus and bifid retrolateral tibial apophysis (Figs 21C – E, 20B – D), but can be distinguished from these species by having the ventral branch of the retrolateral tibial apophysis longer and wider than the dorsal one (shorter in P. wiwa and almost with same length in P. yukpa), which is extremely thin (Fig. 16C – E). Females resemble those of P. perijaensis n. sp., by their spherical-shaped spermathecae and shape of the copulatory ducts (Fig. 17 B–C), but can be distinguished by the oval hood (larger in P. perijaensis), larger spermathecae (smaller in P. perijaensis), and small seminal receptacles inserted on the posterior portion of the copulatory ducts (Fig. 16 F–G).
Description. Male (Holotype, ICN-Ar-9668). Carapace pale yellow with two longitudinal stripes of black simple setae (Fig. 16A). Chelicerae brown. Labium and endites brown. Sternum yellow. Legs yellow, darker on metatarsi and tarsi. Abdomen uniformly gray (Fig. 16A). Spinnerets gray. Total length 6.51, carapace length 3.14, width 2.39, high 0.72. Clypeus height 0.11. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.10, ALE 0.17, PME 0.17, PLE 0.16; AME–AME 0.21, AME–ALE 0.31, PME–PME 0.49, PME–PLE 0.41, ALE–PLE 0.34. Chelicerae 1.46 long, four promarginal teeth; five retromarginal denticles. Leg measurements: leg I—femur 3.69/ patella 1.22/ tibia 3.89/ metatarsus 2.4/ tarsus 1.29/ total 12.49; II—3.7/ 1.08/ 3.55/ 2.23/ 1.2/ 11.76; III—2.4/ 0.95/ 1.81/ 2.14/ 0.69/ 7.99; IV—3.39/ 1.05/ 2.89/ 3.76/ 1.21/ 12.3. Leg spination: I—metatarsus v2-0-0, p1-1-0, r1-1-0; II—tibia v2-2-0, metatarsus v2-0-0, p1-0-0, r1-1-0; III—tibia d1-0-0, metatarsus d0-1-0, p1-1-2, r1-1-2; IV—tibia d1-0-0, metatarsus p1-2-2, r1-1-2. Abdomen: length 3.58, epigastric furrow 0.82 from tracheal spiracle, spiracle 1.45 from base of spinnerets. Palp: retrolateral tibial apophysis bifid, long, with both branches apically truncated with the ventral branch wider than the dorsal branch; cymbium almost as long as the tibia; subtegulum longer than wide, with conspicuous distal projection; tegulum longer than wide, with a sclerotized ventral tegular process under the median apophysis; median apophysis short, curved and apically situated; embolus long, apically filiform, with narrow base and basally inserted on the tegulum (Fig. 16 C–E).
Female (Paratype, ICN-Ar-9669). Coloration as in the male (Fig. 16B). Legs yellow, darkest at metatarsi and tarsi. Total length 6.09, carapace length 2.52, width 2.01, high 1.15. Clypeus height 0.09. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.076, ALE 0.12, PME 0.12, PLE 0.16; AME–AME 0.21, AME–ALE 0.43, PME–PME 0.57, PME–PLE 0.33, ALE–PLE 0.35. Chelicerae 1.06 long, four promarginal teeth; five retromarginal denticles. Leg measurements: leg I—femur 2.96/ patella 1.14/ tibia 2.91/ metatarsus 2.23/ tarsus 1.1/ total 10.34; II—2.59/ 1.1/ 2.73/ 2.12/ 1.08/ 9.62; III 1.97/ 0.87/ 1.40/ 1.87/ 0.79/ 6.9; IV—2.83/ 0.96/ 2.35/ 2.79/ 0.97/ 9.9. Leg spination: I—metatarsus v2-0-0, p1-1-0, r1-1-0; II—metatarsus v2-0-0, p1-1-0, r1-1-0; III—tibia d1-0-0, p0-1-1, r0-1-1, metatarsus p1-2-2, r1-1-2; IV—tibia d1-0-0, p0-1-1, r0-1-1, metatarsus p1-2-2, r1-1-2. Abdomen: length 3.21, epigastric furrow 0.82 from tracheal spiracle, spiracle 1.37 from base of spinnerets. Epigynum: hood short and oval; lateral borders sclerotized, thin, oblique; atrium subtriangular; internally with wide, short, n-shaped copulatory ducts; seminal receptacles small and short; spermathecae large, oval and posteriorly positioned; fertilization ducts shorter than spermathecae (Fig. 16 F–G).
Variation. Males (n=2): total length: 6.11–6.51; carapace length: 2.76–3.14; femur I length: 2.99–3.69. Females (n=4): total length: 5.28–7.17; carapace length: 2.52–2.76; femur I length: 2.52–2.96.
Distribution. Only known from Magdalena department (Fig. 32).
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 pages 33-35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4468383