Cicurina (Cicurella) serena Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina serena

description: <i>Cicurina (Cicurella) serena</i> Gertsch 1992 (Figs 96–97, 135) <i>Cicurina serena</i> Gertsch 1992: 105, figs 109–110 (description of female). <b>—</b> Jackman 1997: 162. <b>HOLOTYPE female:</b> “ Texas; Picture Cave No.1, on Fred Mason Ranch, 23 mi. N.W. Uvalde, at bottom of vertical entrance shaft. November 3, 1962 ”. Label 2: “ Texas; Picture Cave #1, 23 mi. N.W. Uvalde, W100.12; N29.30, November 3, 1962, James Reddell coll”. Examined (AMNH). <b>Description.</b> <i>Female holotype</i> Total length: 3.60; carapace length: 1.62; carapace width: 1.17; opisthosoma length 1.98. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (1 large, 2 left) side likewise; retromargin right side with 6 denticles (3 large, 3 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 5.10; femur: 1.45; patella: 0.50; tibia: 1.20; metatarsus: 1.20; tarsus: 0.75; leg IV: total length: 6.15; femur: 1.60; patella: 0.55; tibia: 1.45; metatarsus: 1.65; tarsus: 0.90. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum length: 0.336. Epigynal ventral plate with long transverse slit, bearing medial, shallow, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium rectangular, almost completely intruded by rounded dorsal plate, atrial aperture small; bursa particularly enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts touching at midpoint, reaching top of primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located medially; primary pores not visible; stalk short, straight, obliquely directed, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe bean-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, externally positioned from the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base. <b>Distribution</b>. Reported from two caves: North Well Cave and Picture Cave No. 1 (type locality) (Uvalde County, Texas, Fig. 135). <b>Remarks.</b> Male unknown. The specimen in the holotype vial of <i>Cicurina serena</i> was not dissected. This implies that Gertsch did not illustrate the holotype in his paper (Figs 109–110) because a dissection is necessary to provide the dorsal view of his figure 110. Likely, he illustrated and described the specimen from North Well Cave – erroneously labeled as <i>Cicurina pablo</i> holotype – which matches the illustrations that he dissected <i>Cicurina</i> epigynum (without a specimen), which does not belong in <i>Cicurella</i>. The specimen from North Well Cave could not be located and examined to confirm the occurrence of <i>Cicurina (Cicurella) serena</i> in that cave. However, the locality is included in Fig. 135 based on Gertsch’s (1992) record and indicated by an open symbol.
description: Published as part of <i>Paquin, Pierre &amp; Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002</i> on page 43
description: {"references": ["Gertsch, W. J. (1992). Distribution patterns and speciation in North American cave spiders with a list of the troglobites and revision of the cicurinas of the subgenus Cicurella. Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs, 3. Studies on the endogean fauna of North America. 2, 75 - 122.", "Jackman, J. A. (1997) A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Houston, Texas: Gulf Publishing Company. xiv + 201 pp. + 32 plates."]}