Anansi luki Benavides and Hormiga, new species
Creators: name: Benavides, Ligia R.
name: Giribet, Gonzalo
name: Hormiga, Gustavo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: <i>Anansi luki</i> Benavides and Hormiga new species Figures 9 <i>–</i> 13 <i>Types.</i> Male holotype from D.R. CONGO: Bas Congo, Mayombe, Luki Forest Reserve, hand catch, primary rainforest, on forest tree trunk along fogging site, Re. De Bakker, D. and Michelis J.P. 3.xi.2006 (RMCA. 22055 - GH0797); female paratype, same locality as the holotype, old secondary rainforest near FS 11, 24.ix. 200 7 (RMCA.22215 1-GH0798). <i>Etymology.</i> The species epithet is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality. <i>Diagnosis. Anansi luki</i> can be distinguished from its congeners by having a long ectobasal cymbial process (CEBP) that is half the total cymbium length (Figs. 10 B, E) (in <i>A. insidiator</i> the CEBP is shorter); conductor flagellum 1.5 times maximum width of cymbium (in <i>A. insidiator</i> flagellum as long as maximum width of cymbium), and epigynum’s bifid distal end that fold upwards (Figs. 14 A <i>–</i> C) (In <i>A. insidiator</i> the distal end of the epigynum is entire and folding downwards). <i>Description. Male:</i> (Figs. 9 and 10; GH797- GH 798). Habitus as in Figures 9 A <i>–</i> C. Total length 5.37; cephalothorax 2.78 long, 1.71 wide, 0.67 high; abdomen 2.48 long, 1.35 wide, 1.30 high. Carapace pale yellow with two lines of macrosetae that run from the fovea to the ocular area (Fig. 9 A). Sternum yellowish (Fig. 9 C), 1.08 long, 0.80 wide, labium 0.41 long, 0.39 wide, darker than the sternum (Fig. 9 C). Clypeus 0.19 high; AME inter-distance 0.11, PME 0.05. PME-AME distance 0.15; AME-ALE 0.08; PME-PLE 0.17. Chelicerae yellow with distal margins dark brown (Fig. 8 D); ChL 1.08; ChW1 0.30; ChW2 0.29. Cymbium twice as long as wide, bearing a fingershaped process on base of ectal margin, adjacent to paracymbium (Figs. 10 B, E <i>–</i> F). Paracymbium spoonshaped; tegulum discoid, embolus flagelliform, running parallel to tegulum (Fig. 1 0C <i>–</i> D); conductor projecting ventrally, with a flagellum almost as long as embolus (Figs. 10 A, C). Epiandrous fusules in two clusters; each cluster on a protuberance that carries ca. 11 fusules (Fig. 10 G). <i>Female:</i> (Figs. 12 and 13; GH795-GH797). Habitus as in Figures 12 A-C. Total length 4.77, cephalothorax 2.17 long, 1.27 wide, 0.64 high; abdomen 2.60 long 1.39 wide, 1.49 high. Carapace pale yellow with two lines of setae that run from fovea to ocular area (Fig. 1 2 A). Sternum light yellow with some scattered grey spots, 1.13 long, 0.73 wide. (Fig. 12 C). Labium 0.38 long, 0.34 wide. Clypeus 0.15 high; AME interdistance 0.13, PME 0.05. PME-AME distance 0.19; AME-ALE 0.11; PME-PLE 0.18 (Fig. 12 D). ChL 1.44; ChW1 0.36; ChW2 0.39. Epigynum projecting posteriorly twice as long as wide; wider at base and narrower distally (Figs. 12 E <i>–</i> F; 13A <i>–</i> C). Oval spermathecae (Figs. 12 F); copulatory ducts 1.2 times spermathecae length (Fig. 13 F). Spinnerets as in Figures 13 E <i>–</i> F. PLS without cylindrical spigots (Fig. 13 F <i>–</i> G). <i>Distribution.</i> Known only from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. <i>Additional Material Examined.</i> D.R. CONGO: Bas Congo, Mayombe, Luki Forest Reserve, beating along trail, primary rainforest. Re De Bakker, D. and Michelis, J.P. 11.xi.2006, 1F (RMCA.221564- GH 0795); hand catch, primary rainforest, on forest tree trunk along fogging site, 3.xi.2006, 1M, 2 F, (RMCA.22055- GH 0797, one female and female abdomen and a male abdomen used for SEM); old secondary rainforest near FS 11, 24.ix. 200 7, 1M, 2 F (RMCA.222 151, one male and one female used for SEM and digestion); GABON: Ogooué-Ivindo, Makokou, CNRS. 0 0 <i>°</i> 0 4′N, 12 <i>°</i> 08; E. ix-xi.1 976, A. L. Rypstra Leg., 1F (USNM).
description: Published as part of <i>Ligia R. Benavides, Gonzalo Giribet &amp; Gustavo Hormiga, 2016, Gonzalo Giribet, pp. 1-31 in Cladistics 32 (6)</i> on page 26, DOI: 10.1111/cla.12174, http://zenodo.org/record/192098