Myrmecotypus drogon Silva-Junior & Bonaldo, 2024, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Silva-Junior, Cláudio J.
name: Bonaldo, Alexandre B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Corinnidae
Myrmecotypus
Myrmecotypus drogon

description: Myrmecotypus drogon spec. nov.
Figs 15A–E
Type material. BRAZIL: ♂ holotype, Amazonas, Coari, Porto Urucu, 04°53’0’’S, 65°20’13.1’’W, 19.IX.2006, N.F. Lo Man Hung leg. (MPEG (ARA)38949).
Paratypes: BRAZIL: Pará, Paragominas, 1♂, 12.IX.2019, A. Viana-Junior leg. (MPEG (ARA)38950); Manaus, Reserva Ducke [2°57’49.7’’S, 59°55’30.0’’W], 1♂, 14–22.VIII.1991, A.D. Brescovit leg. (MCN-21438).
Etymology. The specific name refers to Drogon, one of Daenerys’ three dragons, a fictional creature in R.R. Martin’s book series “A Song of Ice and Fire”. Noun in apposition.
Diagnosis. The male of Myrmecotypus drogon spec. nov. resembles those of M. rubrofemoratus and M. formicus comb. nov. by the tibia I ventral spination 3-3 and the presence of a tegular process in the male palp; they differ from those of both species by the curved embolus, longer than the RTP and tegular process (compare Fig. 15D with Fig. 14D, I).
Description. Male (paratype MCN-21438). Total length 4.82. Carapace 2.66 long, 1.14 wide. Sternum 1.21 long, 0.58 wide. Abdomen 1.88 long, 1.14 wide. Eye diameters: AME 0.11, ALE 0.04, PME 0.05, PLE 0.06. Eye inter-distances: AME-AME 0.10, AME-ALE 0.04, ALE-PLE 0.14, PME-PME 0.23, PME-PLE 0.14, AME-PME 0.13. Carapace long and narrow, brown with darker spots, with smooth constriction between cephalic and thoracic regions, anterior margin truncated, lateral margin with two moderate constrictions, cephalic and thoracic region at same elevation. Labium and endites light brown, with darker spots. Chelicerae brown, three promarginal teeth and two retromarginal teeth equal and equidistant. Sternum brown, elongate, narrower between legs III and IV. Abdomen oval, with dorsal scute reddish-brown and covered by feathery hairs. Ventral and tracheal scutes present. Only coxa II translucent white, coxa I light brown, others brown (Fig. 15C). Legs I and II with femur white in promargin and retromargin, brown dorsally and ventrally. Trochanters and tibiae yellowish-brown in dorsal and ventral view, brown in promargin and retromargin. Metatarsi brown. Legs III and IV light brown, with patellae and tarsi yellow. Leg measurements: I—femur 1.37 / tibia 1.47 / metatarsus 1.07; II—femur 1.14 / tibia 1.25 / metatarsus 1.04; III—femur 1.29 / tibia 1.00 / metatarsus 1.09; IV—femur 1.80 / tibia 1.19. Spination: I-femur do 1-0-1-1, pl 0-0-0-1; tibia ve 2-2-2 (3-3); metatarsus ve 2-2/ II-femur do 1-0-1-1, pl 0-1-0-1, rl 0-1-0-1; tibia ve 2-2- 2; metatarsus ve 2-2/ III-femur do 0-0-1-1; pl 0-1-1, rl 0-1-1; tibia do 0-0-1, pl 0-1-1, rl 0-1-1, ve 2-2; metatarsus pl 1-1-0-1, rl 1-1-0-1, ve 2-2-2-1/ IV-femur do 1-0-1-1, pl 0-0-0-1, rl 0-0-0-1; tibia do 0-0-1, pl 1-0-1, rl 1-0-1, ve p 1-0-1; metatarsus pl 1-1-0-1, rl 1-1-0-1, ve 2-2. Palp with very short RTA; globose genital bulb drawn into neck, ending in three structures: apical, moderately long embolus, short, flat retroapical sclerotized tegular projection, and sub-distal, short, sclerotized process (Fig. 15D, E).
Female unknown.
Other material. Only known from the holotype.
Distribution. Northern Brazil (Fig. 26).
description: Published as part of Silva-Junior, Cláudio J. & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2024, A revision of the South American species of the ant-mimicking spider genus Myrmecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae), pp. 451-496 in Zootaxa 5555 (4) on pages 474-475, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5555.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14594905