Filistatoides insignis O. Pickard-Cambridge 1896
Creators: name: Brescovit, Antonio D.
name: Ruiz, Alexander Sánchez
name: Garcia, Giraldo Alayón
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Filistatidae
Filistatoides
Filistatoides insignis

description: Filistatoides insignis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896)
Figs 1, 2, 8A–D, 22 A
Filistata insignis O. P.- Cambridge, 1896a: 211, pl. 26, fig. 12, pl. 28, fig. 8 (Syntypes adult male and immature female from Valley of the Motagua and San Antonio, Guatemala, deposited in BMNH, examined).
Filistatoides insignis: F. O. P.- Cambridge, 1899: 47, pl. 3, fig. 10; Ramírez & Grismado, 1997: 326, figs 13, 104‒106.
Material examined. GUATEMALA. Department of Escuintla: Santa Rosa, Iztapa (13°55’59”S 90°42’27”W), July 2006, C. Viquez col., 1Ƌ 4♀ 5 imm. (INBIO); Ditto, 1Ƌ 2♀ (IBSP 166703).
Diagnosis. Males of Filistatoides insignis can be distinguished by the almost straight embolus, curving only in the distal area (Figs 1C‒D, 2A‒B) with paraembolic lamina presenting few projections (Fig. 2E‒F). Females can be distinguished from F. polita by the long and narrow necks (Figs 1B, 8C‒D).
Description. Male (INBIO). Carapace orange, with a dark spot behind the eyes. Chelicerae orange. Labium, endites, sternum and palps yellow. Legs orange with dark, sparse spots at joints. Abdomen black with dorsal, conspicuous chevrons (Fig.1A). Total length 3.0. Carapace length 1.4, width 1.2. PME separated by their diameters. Palp measurements: femur 1.0 long, patella 0.4 long, tibia 0.5 long, 0.3 wide Leg measurements: I femur 2.5/ patella 0.6/ tibia 3.2/ metatarsus 2.7/ tarsus 1.3/ total 10.3; II 2.1/ 0.5/ 2.0/ 1.8/ 0.7/ 7.1; III 1.4/ 0.5/ 1.2/ 1.3/ 0.6/ 5.0; IV 1.8/ 0.6/ 1.6/ 1.9/ 0.8/ 6.7. Palp: tibia longer than bulb (including embolus), enlarged in distal area (Figs 1C‒D, 8A‒B). Embolus with pronounced ventral distal groove and paraembolic lamina with few projections (Fig. 2E‒F). Abdomen 1.4 long.
Female (INBIO). Coloration as in male, except the pedipalps are reddish and the abdomen with gray transverse chevrons. Total length 4.5. Carapace length 2.2, width 1.7. PME separated by almost half their diameters. Palp measurements: femur 1.4 long, patella 0.6 long. Leg measurements: I femur 2.5/ patella 0.7/ tibia 2.2/ metatarsus 1.7/ tarsus 1.1/ total 8.2; II 2.0/ 0.5/ 1.9/ 1.7/ 0.8/ 6.9; III 1.6/ 0.6/ 1.4/ 1.4/ 0.6/ 5.6; IV 2.1/ 0.7/ 2.0/ 1.7/ 0.9/ 7.4. Abdomen 2.5 long. Spermathecae with enlarged bases, sometimes separated (Fig. 8C‒D), with round receptacles (Fig. 1B).
Natural history. Specimens were collected in crevices in dry areas in the littoral region of Iztapa. Some specimens were associated with abandoned buildings.
Distribution. Known only from Guatemala (Fig. 22 A).
description: Published as part of Brescovit, Antonio D., Ruiz, Alexander Sánchez & Garcia, Giraldo Alayón, 2016, The Filistatidae in the Caribbean region, with a description of the new genus Antilloides, revision of the genus Filistatoides F. O. P. - Cambridge and notes on Kukulcania Lehtinen (Arachnida, Araneae), pp. 401-432 in Zootaxa 4136 (3) on page 404, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/263114