Anyphaena fernandae Rivera-Quiroz & Álvarez-Padilla 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Rivera-Quiroz, F. Andrés
name: Álvarez-Padilla, Fernando
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Anyphaenidae
Anyphaena
Anyphaena fernandae

description: Anyphaena fernandae sp. nov.
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Figs 9, 18A–B, 52
Differential diagnosis
Females of A. fernandae sp. nov. are differentiated from those of A. autumna Platnick, 1974 (Platnick 1974: figs 39, 45) and the other species of the celer group by the following features: ellipsoid hood, wider than long, midpiece rhomboidal and tapering posteriorly, spermathecae wider than long, and short copulatory ducts (Figs 9E–F, 18A–B).
Etymology
The species epithet is dedicated to Fernanda Lia Rivera, sister of the first author.
Material examined
Holotype MEXICO • ♀; Veracruz, Calcahualco, Atotonilco, Plot I; 19.12569° N, 97.06756° W; alt. 2300 m; 4–14 Oct. 2012; Arcanolab team leg.; oak forest fragment; BEAT; CNAN-T01526.
Description
Female
Total length 5.5. Carapace yellow, more sclerotized over ocular area, pattern with brown longitudinal bands around cephalic area extending to thoracic area and clypeus (Fig. 9A, D). Sternum surface yellow, margins darker, intercoxal triangles present on all legs. Labium brown, white at tip, longer than wide. Endites yellow, rectangular, slightly broader at tip (Fig. 9C). Chelicerae slightly dark yellow, paturon dorsal surface covered with two darker lines (Fig. 9B, D), promargin with four teeth, retromargin with eight to nine denticles. Leg coloration: yellow with scattered brown patches irregularly distributed from femora to tarsi (Fig. 9A–C). Abdomen dark brown, dorsal surface with four central darker chevrons, lateral and ventral surfaces yellow, covered with reticulated dark lines, ventral surface with clear rectangle and dark longitudinal midline cut by tracheal spiracle at center of abdomen (Fig. 9A–C). Epigynum atrium wider than long, delineated by curved sclerotized lateral borders. Copulatory openings inside posterior margins of atrium (Fig. 9E–F). Copulatory ducts short and comma-shaped, entering spermathecae ventrally. Fertilization ducts entering spermathecae dorsally. Seminal receptacles not visible (Fig. 18A–B). Cephalothorax length 2.26, thoracic width 1.61, cephalic width 1.05. Clypeus height 0.09. Eye diameters: AME 0.07, ALE 0.13, PME 0.11, PLE 0.13. Eye interdistances: AME– AME 0.05, AME–ALE 0.02, ALE–PLE 0.06, PME–PME 0.15, PME–PLE 0.11. Femur lengths: I 1.95, II 1.76, III 1.46, IV 2.05. Leg spination: femur I d1-1-1, p0-0-2, r0-0-0. Tibia I v2-1-1, p1-1-1, r0-0-1. Metatarsus I v2-2-0, p1-1-0, r1-1-0. Femur II d1-1-1, p0-0-2, r0-0-0. Tibia II v2-1-1, p1-1-1, r0-0-1. Metatarsus II v2-2-0, p1-1-0, r1-1-0. Femur III d1-1-1, p0-0-1, r0-0-1. Tibia III v2-2-2, p1-1-0, r1-1-0. Metatarsus III v2-2-2, p1-1-2, r1-1-2. Femur IV d1-1-1, p0-0-1, r0-0-1. Tibia IV v2-2-2, p1-1-0, r1-1-0. Metatarsus IV v2-2-2, p1-1-2, r1-1-2.
Male
Unknown.
Variation
Only type specimen known.
Distribution
Only known from the type locality (Fig. 52).
Natural history
Collected by beating vegetation.
description: Published as part of Rivera-Quiroz, F. Andrés & Álvarez-Padilla, Fernando, 2023, Integration or minimalism: twenty-one new species of ghost spiders (Anyphaenidae: Anyphaena) from Mexico, pp. 1-94 in European Journal of Taxonomy 865 on pages 17-19, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.865.2097, http://zenodo.org/record/7867448