Cubanops Sánchez-Ruiz & Platnick & Dupérré 2010
Creators: name: Sánchez-Ruiz, Alexander
name: Platnick, Norman I.
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Caponiidae
Cubanops

description: KEY TO SPECIES OF CUBANOPS
1. Male embolus relatively short, wide (as in figs. 8, 9); female receptaculum relatively low (as in figs. 15, 16)................................................................ ludovicorum group, 2
– Male embolus relatively long, narrow (as in figs. 155, 156); female receptaculum relatively high (as in figs. 162, 163)................................................................... alayoni group, 8
2. Carapace with pattern consisting mostly of orange and white areas, with few dark maculations (figs. 3, 12); sternum with anterior white band (figs. 4, 13)..... C. ludovicorum
– Carapace with pattern consisting of numerous dark maculations (as in figs. 19, 28); sternum with anterior dark markings (as in figs. 20, 29).........................................................3
3. Males (those of C. darlingtoni unknown)...................................................................................4
– Females (those of C. andersoni unknown)..................................................................................6
4. Embolus with recurved tip (figs. 40, 41)................................................................. C. andersoni
– Embolus tip not recurved..............................................................................................................5
5. Embolus tip W-shaped (figs. 24, 25).............................................................................. C. bimini
– Embolus tip V-shaped (figs. 51, 52).............................................................................. C. armasi
6. Sternum with submarginal dark markings opposite endites and leg coxae (fig. 64); abdominal venter with median dark markings (fig. 62) .................................... C. darlingtoni
– Sternum with submarginal dark markings opposite endites only (figs. 29, 56); abdominal venter without median dark markings (figs. 27, 54).............................................7
7. Posterior margin of epigastric area smoothly procurved (figs. 30, 31).................... C. bimini
– Posterior margin of epigastric area undulating (figs. 57, 58).................................... C. armasi
8. Sternum with submarginal dark markings opposite endites and leg coxae (figs. 151, 222).................................................................................................................................9
– Sternum with submarginal dark markings opposite endites only (as in figs. 167, 192)......................................................................................................................10
9. Embolus tip straight (figs. 226, 227); receptacular triangle relatively low, wide (figs. 233, 234)....................................................................................................................... C. vega
– Embolus tip curved (figs. 155, 156); receptacular triangle relatively high, narrow (figs. 162, 163).................................................................................................... C. alayoni
10. Males (those of C. tortuguilla unknown)..................................................................................11
– Females...........................................................................................................................................13
11. Subdistal process on embolus tip short, recurved (fig. 204)...................................... C. terueli
– Subdistal process on embolus tip long, not recurved (figs. 172, 188)..................................12
12. Subdistal process on embolus tip reaching almost to embolus tip (fig. 188).. C. granpiedra
– Subdistal process on embolus tip shorter (fig. 172).................................................. C. juragua
13. Anterior tip of receptaculum relatively narrow (figs. 178, 210)............................................14
– Anterior tip of receptaculum relatively wide (figs. 194, 217)................................................15
14. Anterior tip of receptaculum abruptly narrowed (fig. 210)....................................... C. terueli
– Anterior tip of receptaculum gradually narrowed (fig. 178)................................... C. juragua
15. Sclerotized anterior margin of receptaculum much thicker laterally than medially (fig. 217)...................................................................................................... C. tortuguilla
– Sclerotized anterior margin of receptaculum relatively uniform in thickness (fig. 194)...................................................................................................................... C. granpiedra
description: Published as part of Sánchez-Ruiz, Alexander, Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2010, A New Genus of the Spider Family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from the West Indies, pp. 1-44 in American Museum Novitates 2010 (3705) on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.1206/3705.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4597743