Myrmekiaphila torreya Gertsch and Wallace 1936
Creators: name: BOND, JASON E.
name: PLATNICK, NORMAN I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Cyrtaucheniidae
Myrmekiaphila
Myrmekiaphila torreya

description: Myrmekiaphila torreya Gertsch and Wallace
Figures 9, 19, 29, 63, 71–77
Myrmekiaphila torreya Gertsch and Wallace, 1936: 15, figs. 15, 17–25 (male holotype and female allotype from Torreya Ravine, Liberty Co., Florida, in AMNH, examined).
DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the presence of a relatively slender palpal prong and embolus, with the shorter auxiliary prong subequal in diameter to the embolus (figs. 9, 29). Females are difficult to definitively diagnose, but have spermathecae with an enlarged base that extends subequally from a central bulb that lacks an elongate stalk (fig. 77).
DESCRIPTIONS: Male and female described by Gertsch and Wallace (1936).
MATERIAL EXAMINED: UNITED STATES: FLORIDA: Gadsden Co.: no specific locality [30.5633 –84.6027, MYR211], Apr. 14, 1935 (H. Wallace, AMNH), 1♀. Jackson Co.: Merritts Mill Pond, 3.5 mi E Marianna on U.S. 90 [30.753 –85.1933, MYR215], Oct. 9, 1967 (F. Moore, FSCA), 1♀; 7 mi S Marianna on State Road 71, in woods, 100 yards from Chipola River [30.6815 –85.2069, MYR277], Aug. 4, 1963 (B. Mansell, F. Moore, AMNH), 1♀, spiderlings. Jefferson Co.: no specific locality [30.4169 –83.8957, MYR241], Apr. 7, 1969 (H. Wallace, FSCA), 23; Big Bend Horticulture Lab [30.516 –83.888 MYR106– 108], Apr. 7–28, 1969 (FSCA), 33. Leon Co.: no specific locality [30.4946 –84.2082, MYR210, 263, 264], Apr. 15–16, 1936 (R. Bellamy, J. Rogers, H. Wallace, FSCA), 8♀, 4 juv.; Tallahassee, Tall Timbers Research Station [30.658769 –84.208445, MYR109– 114, 227, 229–235, 238, 239, 246, 258–260], Mar.–June 1970 (D. Harris, W. Whitcomb, FSCA), 363, 2♀, 2 juv., [MYR258], Apr. 9, 1970 (R. Woodruff, FSCA), 1♀, [MYR259, 260], Aug–Sept. 1968 (W. Baker, FSCA), 1♀, 1 juv. Liberty Co.: no specific locality [30.2508 –84.8755, MYR205], Nov. 4, 1938 (H. Wallace, FSCA), 1♀, [MYR213], Apr. 8, 1941 (H. Wallace, FSCA), 1♀, [MYR206, 207], Apr. 14, 1951 (H. Wallace, FSCA), 2♀, 2 juv., [MYR242], June 4, 1953 (H. Wallace, FSCA), 1♀, [MYR216], Aug. 18, 1960 (JMCC, MCZ), 8♀; just E Apalachicola on FL-20, 30.43181 –84.33987 [MY2567–2572], Feb. 27, 2004 (B. Hendrixson, D. Beamer, ECU-AMNH), 6♀; near Sweet Water in deep ravine, 30.51075 –84.95982, elev. 73 m [MY2575, 2576], Feb. 28, 2004 (B. Hendrixson, D. Beamer, ECU-AMNH), 2♀; Torreya Ravine, Torreya State Park, 10 mi NE Bristol, 30.56678 –84.95, [MYR208], Apr. 10, 1935, (H. Wallace, FSCA), 2♀, [MYR237, 270, 273], Apr. 10, 1935 (H. Wallace, AMNH), 4♀, one with spiderlings, [MYR217, 218, 240, 262, 272, 276], Apr. 17– 18, 1936 (R. Bellamy, H. Wallace, AMNH, MCZ), 503, 16♀, 6 juv., [MYR275], Apr. 16, 1938, (W. Gertsch, AMNH), 6♀, [MYR148], Apr. 8, 1941 (H. Wallace, FSCA), 1♀, [MYR102], June 4, 1953 (H. Wallace, FSCA), 1♀, [MYR261], Mar. 10, 1963 (AMNH), 1 juv., [MYR274], Apr. 2, 1963 (W. Shear, AMNH), 2♀, [MYR104], Apr. 20, 1963 (A. Derbonne, FSCA), 1♀, [MYR236], Mar. 15, 1964 (F. Moore, FSCA), 13, [MYR115], Mar. 29, 1964 (AMNH), 13, Mar. 31, 1964 (A. Weaver, F. Coyle, VMNH), 1♀, [MYR197], Mar. 31, 1965 (J. Beatty, JAB), 2♀, [MYR265– 269, 271], May 1965, Apr., Sept. 1967 (F. Moore, FSCA), 11♀, 2 juv., Aug. 16, 1966 (W. Shear, VMNH), 2♀, [MYR105], May 18, 1973 (G. Edwards, FSCA), 1♀, [MYR103], Mar. 10, 1978 (D. Richman, FSCA), 2♀; [MYR226], Mar. 31, 1979 (P. Choate, FSCA), 23, [MYR286], Feb. 15, 1986 (D. Folkerts, AMNH), 1♀. GEORGIA: Cob Co.: Kennesaw, Chastain Lakes [34.0234 –84.6155, MYR083], Nov. 15, 1997 (H. McNatt, AMNH), 13. Early Co.: 8.5 mi NNW Blakely [31.4645 –84.99667, MYR001–003], Mar. 24, 1992 (G. Folkerts, AMNH), 3♀. Floyd Co.: Rome [34.257 –85.1647, MYR248], (R. Battey, MCZ), 13. Fulton Co.: Atlanta [33.75 –84.41667, MYR203, 250], Apr. 14–16, 1946 (P. Fattig, AMNH), 13, 1♀. Monroe Co.: Forsyth [33.03438 –83.9382, MYR209], Nov. 1, 1963 (N. Mason, AMNH), 1♀. Thomas Co.: SE edge Thomasville, Millpond Plantation [30.807 –83.9627, MYR212], Mar. 31, 1968 (W. Sedgwick, AMNH), 1♀, spiderlings, [MYR214], June 16, 1973 (F. Coyle, W. Shear, AMNH), 1♀, spiderlings.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Georgia and adjacent Florida (fig. 63).
description: Published as part of BOND, JASON E. & PLATNICK, NORMAN I., 2007, A Taxonomic Review of the Trapdoor Spider Genus Myrmekiaphila (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae), pp. 1-32 in American Museum Novitates 3596 (1) on pages 19-21, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3596[1:ATROTT]2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/4712783