Mysmenopsis hunachi Dupérré & Tapia 2020, new species
Creators: name: Dupérré, Nadine
name: Tapia, Elicio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Mysmenidae
Mysmenopsis
Mysmenopsis hunachi

description: Mysmenopsis hunachi new species
Figs 91–96, map 1 (yellow star).
Material examined. Male holotype from Ecuador, Cotopaxi Province, Via Sigchos-Rio Hunachi (-0.657704 - 78.876737) 2347m, 15 Mar. 2019, ex: Linothele sp. verdosa, E. Tapia (QCAZ).
Additional material examined. Ecuador: Cotopaxi Province, Via Sigchos -Rio Hunachi (-0.657704 -78.876737) 2347m, 15 Mar. 2019, 3juv. ex: Linothele sp. verdosa, E. Tapia (QCAZ, ZMH-A0001913).
Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality, the Rio Hunachi.
Diagnosis. Males are distinguished from all species by the following combination of characters; retrolateral ledge of palpal tibia long with 13 cusps and embolus hook-shaped (Figs 94, 96).
Description. Male (holotype): Total length: 2.08; carapace length: 1.00; carapace width: 0.91; abdomen length: 1.08. Carapace dark brown, pear-shaped; suffused black along pars cephalica and radiating lines (Fig. 91). Sternum black; covered with long setae. Clypeus dark brown; high (5x AME). Chelicerae brown suffused with black; promargin with three teeth; retromargin not observed. Eyes: eight, rounded, all approximately equal size; ocular region on protuberance; AME separated by their diameter, AME-LE touching; ALE-PLE contiguous, LE-PME separated by their diameter; PME separated by their diameter. Abdomen: rounded, light grey with mixed patterned of dark grey and whites patches (Figs 91, 92). Legs: femur I dark brown; femora II-IV light yellow with dark bands basally, medially and apically; tibia I brown with apical dark band; tibiae II-IV yellow with dark patches apically; metatarsi I-IV light orange-brown with dark band apically, tarsi light yellow; femur and tibia I enlarged, metatarsus I slightly curved. Legs spination: patellae I-IV with one macroseta; tibia I with two prolateral clasping spurs and one macroseta; metatarsus I row of six macrosetae prolatero-ventrally and two clasping spurs apically (Fig. 93); tibiae I-IV with one macroseta dorso-proximally; tibia I with three macrosetae retrolaterally; tibia II with three macrosetae ventrally. Total length leg I: 3.39 (1.03/0.34/0.93/0.57/0.52). Genitalia: palpal tibia globular; retrolateral ledge wide bearing 13 short cusps, ventral ledge absent; two retrolateral trichobothria (Fig. 94). Cymbium apically truncated, deeply excavated; paracymbium triangular not excavated prolatero-dorsally (Fig. 95). Tegulum oval (Fig. 94). Embolus short, hook-shaped, with small pointed basal apophysis (Figs 94, 96).
Female: Unknown.
Distribution. Only known from the type locality in Cotopaxi Province.
Natural history. The male holotype and three juveniles were collected in an evergreen mountain shrubland of the western Andes (AsMn01) (Josse & Aguirre, 2013) at 2347m in a Linothele sp. web.
description: Published as part of Dupérré, Nadine & Tapia, Elicio, 2020, Megadiverse Ecuador: a review of Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) of Ecuador, with the description of twenty-one new kleptoparasitic spider species, pp. 1-81 in Zootaxa 4761 (1) on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4761.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3743503