Kiekie curvipes Polotow & Brescovit 2018, new combination
Creators: name: Polotow, Daniele
name: Brescovit, Antonio D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Ctenidae
Kiekie
Kiekie curvipes

description: Kiekie curvipes (Keyserling, 1881) new combination
Figs 3C, 6, 15A
Microctenus curvipes Keyserling, 1881: 579, pl. 16, fig. 24 (male holotype from Panama, deposited in C.L. Koch personal collection, not examined, probably lost).
Ctenus curvipes: Simon 1897:107, fig. 100; F.O. Pickard-Cambridge 1897: 86, pl. 3, figs 6a, 7e; Polotow & Brescovit 2014: 355, fig. 12C; World Spider Catalog 2018.
Ctenus incolans F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 111, pl. 7, figs 35–36 (female holotype from Guatemala, deposited in BMNH 1901.3.3.142–143, examined). World Spider Catalog 2018. New synonymy.
Diagnosis. Males of Kiekie curvipes (Fig. 6A) can be distinguished from the remaining species of the genus by the cylindrical and S-shaped RTA, positioned roughly in the middle of palpal tibia; the bimarginated, cup-shaped median apophysis and the round projection at the embolus base. Females can be distinguished by the absence of a hyaline area in the lateral field, close to the copulatory opening, which is present in the remaining species of the genus (Fig. 6B).
Note. The species was identified by the original description and drawings.
Description. Male (CAS). Total length 16.20. Carapace 8.70 long and 7.10 wide. Clypeus 0.50 high. Eye diameters: AME 0.36, ALE 0.23, PME 0.44, PLE 0.45. Leg measurements: I: femur 9.20/ patella 3.30/ tibia 7.70/ metatarsus 7.90/ tarsus 3.10/ total 31.20; II: 8.10/ 3.50/ 7.40/ 7.30/ 2.80/ 29.10; III: 7.00/ 3.00/ 6.10/ 6.90/ 2.40/ 25.40; IV: 8.70/ 3.30/ 9.00/ 9.80/ 3.30/ 34.10. Leg spination: tibia II v2-2 -2-2-2, r1-1-0, p1-1-1-0, III–IV v2-2 -2, r1-1, p1-1; metatarsus II v2-2 -2, r1-1-0, p-1-1-0, III v2-2 -2, r1-1-1, p1-1-1, IV v2-1 -2-2, r1-1, p1-1 (Fig. 3C). Palp (Fig. 6A): embolus elongated and laminar, with a large base, narrowing in the middle to the tip; median apophysis short and rounded in ventral view; conductor with narrow base and large apex, with a furrow that fit the tip of embolus.
Female (CAS). Total length 16.80. Carapace 8.30 long and 6.50 wide. Clypeus 0.50 high. Eye diameters: AME 0.30, ALE 0.23, PME 0.40, PLE 0.40. Legs measurements: I: femur 6.60/ patella 3.60/ tibia 6.40/ metatarsus 5.20/ tarsus 2.10/ total 23.90; II: 6.30/ 3.10/ 5.60/ 5.40/ 2.10/ 22.50; III: 5.60/ 2.70/ 4.20/ 5.10/ 1.70/ 19.30; IV: 6.70/ 3.00/ 6.70/ 8.00/ 2.10/ 26.50. Leg formula 4123. Leg spination: tibia I–II v2-2 -2-2-2, r0, p0, III–IV v2-2 -2, r1-1, p1-1; metatarsus I, II v2-2 -2, r0, p0, III v2-2 -2, r1-1, p1-1, IV v1-1 -1-2-2, r1-1, p1-1. Epigynum (Fig. 6 B–C): median field subpentagonal; lateral fields completely sclerotized; lateral projections laminar; spermathecae divided in a large head and base with several round projections; fertilization ducts small.
Additional material examined. MEXICO. Chiapas: Palenque, ruins (17.50, -91.98), 1 male, 4.VII.1949, Goodnight coll. (AMNH); Chilón, Jet-J (17.06, -91.92), 1 female, 8.III.1945, T.C. Schneirla coll. (AMNH); Bonampok Road, 100 km SE Palenque (16.92, -91.22), 230 m. a.s.l., rainforest, 8–24.VII.1983, S. & J. Peck coll. (AMNH); Tabasco: Teapa (17.61, -92.95), 1 male, 1.VIII.1948, C. & M. Goodnight coll. (AMNH); Veracruz: 16 km S of San José del Carmen (17.72, -94.09), 1 male, 16.IV.1953, L. Irby Davis coll. (AMNH). GUATEMALA. Izabal: Quirigua Ruins (15.26, -89.04), 1 male, 12.X.1977, M. Bentzien coll. (CAS). HONDURAS. Copán: El Cedral (15.1, -88.68), 1 female, 8.III.1939 (AMNH). NICARAGUA. Región Autonoma del Atlantico Norte: Musawás, Waspuc River (14.15, -84.70), 2 females, 10–31.X.1955, B. Malkin coll. (AMNH). COSTA RICA. Heredia: 4 km SE Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Finca La Selva (10.42, -83.99), 3 males, 3 females, IX–X.1981, C.E. Griswold coll. (CAS); 1 male, 1 female, 1–15.X.1981, C.E. Griswold coll. (CAS, drawing, photos and measurements); Limón: Tortuguero National Park (10.43, -83.50), 2 males, 1 female, 17–23.IV.1983, D. Ubick coll. (CAS); Penshurt, 10 km NW Cahuíta, humid forest with cacao (9.77, -82.90), 1 female, 13–15.IV.1983, D. Ubick coll. (CAS); Puntarenas: Rincón (8.70, -83.48), 1 male, 20. VI.1984, S. Mead coll. (CAS); Cartago: Turrialba (9.90, -83.67), 1 male, 10.III.1967, W. Peck coll. (CAS). PANAMA. Coclé: El Valle de Antón, Rio Antón (8.61, -80.12), 1 female, 31.I.1983, C.W. Myers coll. (AMNH); San José: Butler's Finca (9.3, -83.78), 1 male, 28.I.1976, Roth-Schroepfer coll. (AMNH).
Distribution. Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama (Fig. 15A).
description: Published as part of Polotow, Daniele & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2018, Kiekie, a new Neotropical spider genus of Ctenidae (Cteninae, Araneae), pp. 353-373 in Zootaxa 4531 (3) on pages 358-360, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2614706