Anyphaena sofiae 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 sofiae

description: Anyphaena sofiae sp. nov.
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Figs 36, 38A–B, 52
Differential diagnosis
Females of A. sofiae sp. nov. are differentiated from those of all species of the pectorosa and pacifica groups by the following features: copulatory ducts extending beyond the hood, atrium oval, hood faint, thin and straight (Figs 36E–F, 38A–B).
Etymology
The species epithet is dedicated to Sofia Rivera, niece of the first author.
Material examined
Holotype MEXICO • ♀; Veracruz, Calcahualco, Atotonilco, Plot II; 19.29483° N, 97.2045° W; alt. 2388 m; 15–24 Feb. 2013; Arcanolab team leg.; oak and pine forest fragment; BEAT; AR_060; GenBank: ON619648; CNAN-T01538.
Paratypes MEXICO • 1 ♀; Veracruz, Calcahualco, Atotonilco, Plot I; 19.12569° N, 97.06756° W; alt. 2300 m; 21–30 May 2012; Aracnolab team leg.; oak forest fragment; LUP; AR_057; GenBank: ON619646; CNAN-T01572 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; AR_059; GenBank: ON619647; CNAN-T01573.
Additional material
MEXICO • 1 ♀; Veracruz, Calcahualco, Atotonilco, Plot I; 19.12569° N, 97.06756° W; alt. 2300 m; 15–24 Feb. 2013; Aracnolab team leg.; oak forest fragment; BEAT • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; LUP • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 21–30 May 2012; LUP • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; ANYM025 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; Atotonilco. Plot II; 19.29483° N, 97.2045° W; alt. 2388 m; 15–24 Feb. 2013; oak and pine forest fragment; BEAT • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; CRP • 3 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; LUP • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; ANYM029 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 21–30 May 2012; BEAT; ANYM026 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; ANYM027 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; ANYM028 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; LUP • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; ANYM030 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 4–14 Oct. 2012; LUP.
Description
Female
Total length 7.8. Carapace yellow, pattern with darker bands delineating cephalic area, around fovea and clypeus (Fig. 36A, D). Sternum surface white, intercoxal triangles present on all legs. Labium brown, white at tip, longer than wide. Endites yellow, rectangular, broader at tip (Fig. 36C). Chelicerae brown, without dorsal pattern (Fig. 36B, D), promargin with four teeth, retromargin with eight to nine denticles. Abdomen dorsal surface white, covered with darker patches and some diffuse chevrons at center, lateral and ventral surfaces white, pattern diffusing ventrally, tracheal spiracle slightly closer to epigastric furrow (Fig. 36A–C). Anterior area of epigynal plate delineated laterally by two faint pits near copulatory ducts bent. Genital openings at both sides of hood. Copulatory duct paths bent posteriorly beyond hood and entering spermathecae antero-laterally. Seminal receptacles closer to spermathecae at one third of copulatory ducts’ length. Fertilization ducts short, straight, and entering spermathecae via postero-lateral surface (Figs 36E–F, 38A–B). Cephalothorax length 2.93, thoracic width 2.29, cephalic width 1.23. Clypeus height 0.1. Eye diameters: AME 0.09, ALE 0.12, PME 0.12, PLE 0.12. Eye interdistances: AME–AME 0.06, AME–ALE 0.04, ALE–PLE 0.17, PME–PME 0.17, PME–PLE 0.13. Femur lengths: I 3.13, II 2.9, III 2.26, IV 3.0. Leg spination: femur I d1-1-1, p0-1-2, r0-1-1. Tibia I v2-2-0, p1-1-1, r1-1-1. Metatarsus I v2-2-0, p1-1-1, r1-1-1. Femur II d1-1-1, p0-1-1, r0-1-1. Tibia II v2-2-0, p1-1-1, r1-1-1. Metatarsus II v2-2-0, p1-1-1, r1-1-1. Femur III d1-1-1, p0-1-1, r0-1-1. Tibia III v2-2-2, p0-1-1, r0-1-1. Metatarsus III v2-2-2, p1-1-2, r1-1-2. Femur IV d1-1-1, p0-1-1, r0-0-1. Tibia IV v2-2-2, p0-1-1, r0-1-1. Metatarsus IV v2-2-2, p1-1-2, r1-1-2
Male
Unknown.
Variation
Females (N =10): total length 8.03 (± 0.62), cephalothorax length 3.41 (± 0.3), thoracic width 2.48 (± 0.19), cephalic width 1.27 (± 0.08), femur I 3.46 (± 0.27).
Distribution
Only known from the type locality (Fig. 52).
Natural history
Most specimens collected by beating and direct searching over 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 58-60, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.865.2097, http://zenodo.org/record/7867448