Tenedos figaro Jocque & Baert 2002
Creators: name: Martínez, Leonel
name: Brescovit, Antonio D.
name: Martínez, Carlos Prieto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Zodariidae
Tenedos
Tenedos figaro

description: Tenedos figaro Jocqué & Baert, 2002   
Figs 19–20; 46  
 Tenedos figaro Jocqué & Baert 2002: 121, fig. 1-2a–c, 3a–d, 4-5a–b, 16a–e, 24d. (Male holotype from Rio Palenque, Los Ríos, Pichincha, Ecuador, 220 m, not date, S. Sandoval leg., deposited in Pontificia Universidad Cátolica del Ecuador [PUCE], not examined). Paratypes: see extensive list in Jocqué & Baert (2002), not examined.   
 Remark. Although we did not examine the types, we did obtain a couple from the type locality. With this material, it was possible to determine the species and present a redescription.   
 Material examined. ECUADOR Pichincha, 47 km S of Santo Domingo, Río Palenque Station, 260 m, S Peck leg., 21-24.II.1976, 1 ♁ (FMNHINS 3479187); Tinalandia, 16 km SE of Santo Domingo, 680 m, S Peck leg., 15.IV.1975, 1 ♀ (FMNHINS 3821639).   
 Diagnosis. Males of Tenedos figaro Jocqué & Baert, 2002 are similar to those of Tenedos quimbaya sp. n. by having a cymbium (Cy) almost as long as tibia + patella length, abundant modified setae on retrolateral side of the cymbium, and similar shape of prolateral laminar extension of the conductor (C) (Figs 22A–D; 23A–B; 24A–F), are distinguished by the shape of median apophysis (MA): with a rounded anterior tip recurved, and medial furrow along of its extension; posterior branch of the retrolateral tibial apophysis (pRTA) longer than palpal tibia (Fig. 20A–F). Females are diagnosed by their wide and oblique oriented copulatory ducts (SD), and oval median field plate (MFP), atrium (A) not delimited (Fig. 20I).   
 Complementary description. Male (FMNHINS 3479187). Coloration (Fig. 19A–B): carapace orangebrownish, dark brown in margins, with thin brown stripes extending from fovea to margins. Chelicerae with brown paturon, darker in the base, fangs reddish. Endites light brown, anteriorly white. Labium and sternum brown, more pigmented in margins. Legs: Coxae I–IV whitish-pale yellow. Femora I–IV light brown. Patellae I–IV light brown. Tibia I-II white, light brown at basal and distal regions. Metatarsi-tarsi I–IV light brown. Abdomen: dorsally dark gray with six white guanine spots organized as follows: two small, elongated spots, anteriorly positioned; two elongated spots larger than previous ones, medially positioned; two irregular spots smaller than medial ones, partially fused, posteriorly positioned. Laterally dark gray, with a wide, oblique band. Ventrally beige. Spinnerets pale brown. Palp: retrolateral process of cymbium (RPC) prominent, wide towards base; tegulum (T) sub-rounded at anterior region, elongated towards embolus base; subtegulum (St) very wide, conspicuous in ventral view; conductor (C) with prolateral region large and projected; appendix (ApC) long, sharp; embolus (E) very wide in the base, filiform towards apex; embolus base (EB) robust, basally projected, tending towards prolateral region; spermatic ducts (SD) thin; ventral tibial apophysis (VTA) large, quadrangular-shaped in ventral and retrolateral views; median apophysis (MA) large, with anterior rounded tip and a furrow in medial region; retrolateral tibial apophysis (RTA) with posterior branch (pRTA) longer than palpal tibia, anterior branch (aRTA) laminar, short, triangular (Fig. 20A–F).   
 Female (FMNHINS 3479187). Coloration and abdominal pattern of spots as male with some differences: carapace uniformly brown with some incipient dark dots, legs with coxae pale brown, femora-tarsi light brown; abdominal spots are more rounded (Fig. 19C–D). Epigyne: lateral borders (LB) very short, apically rounded, not delimiting atrium (A); median field plate (MFP) small; copulatory ducts (CD) long, wide, oblique oriented, describing approximately five tuns on spermathecae; spermathecae (S) large, rounded, posteriorly positioned; fertilization ducts (FD) almost as long as spermathecae (Fig. 20I).   
 Natural history. Specimens were collected in leaf litter.   
 Distribution. Known from several localities in Pichincha, Ecuador (Fig. 46).
description: Published as part of Martínez, Leonel, Brescovit, Antonio D. & Martínez, Carlos Prieto, 2023, Revealing the diversity of ant-eating spiders in Colombia II: morphology, distribution, and taxonomy of the trilobatus group of the genus Tenedos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897 (Araneae: Zodariidae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5328 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5328.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8243895