Nops minas Sánchez-Ruiz & Brescovit 2018, new species
Creators: name: Sánchez-Ruiz, Alexander
name: Brescovit, Antonio D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Caponiidae
Nops
Nops minas

description: Nops minas new species
Figures 63G‒L; 64A‒G
Types. Male holotype from Estacão Ecolόgica de UFMG (19°52′S, 43°58′W), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, deposited in IBSP 66766. Male and female paratypes same data as holotype deposited in IBSP 66762.
Additional material examined. BRAZIL: Maranhão: Mirador, Parque Estadual de Mirador (6°26′1″S, 44°53′58″W), 30.vi‒4.vii.2008, J.B. F. Lima ‒ Lobato, 1♂ 1♀ (IBSP 117224). Goiás: Catalão (18°02′29″S, 48°00′36″W), 10‒16.ii. 203, J.P. Guadanucci, F.S. Cunha, 1♂ (IBSP 117052). Luziania, Barragem de Corumbá IV (16°19′38″S, 48°13′22″W), 22.ix.2005, Equipe IBSP, 1♀ (IBSP 79091). Minas Gerais: Belo Horizonte, Estação Ecolόgica de UFMG (19°52′S, 43°58′W), v. 2000, E.S.S Álvares, 1♂ (IBSP 66764). Ditto, i‒ii.2000, E.S.S Álvares, 5♂ (IBSP 66763). Ditto, iii‒vii.2001, E.S.S Álvares, 4♂ (IBSP 66767). Ditto, 27.iii.2000, E.S.S Álvares, C.S. Azevedo & E.O. Machado, 5♂ (IBSP 27241). Ditto, iii.2000, E.S.S Álvares, 3♂ (IBSP 66765). Ditto, vii.2000, E.S.S Álvares, 3♂ (IBSP 66769). Ditto, xii.2000 ‒ i.2001, 9 ♂ (IBSP 66768). Juatuba (19°57′7″S, 44°20′34″W), Área de preservação de COPASA, Núcleo Serra Azul, 18‒23.iv.2002, A. J. Santos, 1♂ (IBSP 150202). São Paulo: Teodoro Sampaio, Parque Estadual Morro do Diabo (22°37′15″S, 52°10′18″W), 24‒31.iii.2003, Equipe BIOTA, 1♂ (IBSP 154378). Jaboticabal, (21°15′18″S, 48°19′19″W), iii‒iv.2004, F.J. Cividanes, 2♂ (IBSP 55891). Araraquara, (21°47′38″S, 48°10′33″W), 2003, L. Marcomini, 1♂ (IBSP 43018).
Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition, derived from the type locality.
Diagnosis. Both sexes resemble similar congener Nops meridionalis, which have a similar abdominal pattern as in figure 6I, the PLS longer than PMS and the posterior unpaired claws small (Fig. 5C); but can be distinguished by a straight embolus, shorter than palpal tibia (Fig. 64B, D) in males, and females can be distinguished by a weakly sclerotized lep, unremarkable ess and unsclerotized lateral margins of anterior plate (Fig. 64F).
Description. Male (holotype): Carapace orange (Fig. 64A). Chelicerae, labium, and legs yellowish orange, coxae and trochanters lighter. Endites and sternum yellowish orange. Abdomen light gray, dorsal pattern as in figure 6I, lighter ventrally. Anal tubercle and spinnerets light gray. Total length 7.9. Carapace 4.8 long, 3.8 wide. Sternum 4.2 long, 3.2 wide. Leg measurements: I: 3.8; II: 3.75; III: 3.3; IV: 3.95. Posterior unpaired claws small, as in other three‒clawed spiders. PLS longer than PMS. Palp with straight embolus, shorter than palpal tibia (Figs 63G; 64B‒D); embolar tip with a wide cut on prolateral side and two long extensions (Fig. 63H‒I).
Female (paratype): Carapace, chelicerae, labium, coxae, legs, endites and sternum as in male. Abdomen as in male (Fig. 64E). Anal tubercle and spinnerets whitish yellow. Total length 8.3. Carapace 5.0 long, 4.1 wide. Sternum 4.5 long, 3.4 wide. Leg measurements: I: 3.9; II: 3.8; III: 3.4; IV: 4.05. Posterior unpaired claws and PLS as in male. External genital area with weakly sclerotized anterior plate and lep, unremarkable ess (Fig. 64F). Internal genitalia with wide invagination on receptaculum and uterus externus with narrow base (Figs 63J‒L; 64G).
Distribution. Known from the Brazilian States of Maranhão, Goiás, São Paulo and Minas Gerais (Fig. 65A).
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Ruiz, Alexander & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2018, A revision of the Neotropical spider genus Nops MacLeay (Araneae: Caponiidae) with the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the Nopinae genera, pp. 1-121 in Zootaxa 4427 (1) on pages 94-97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4427.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1271779