ANAPISONA
Creators: name: Platnick, N. I
name: M. U. Shadab
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1979
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Anapidae
Anapisona

description: ANAPISONA GERTSCH  
Anapisona Gertsch, 1941, p. 4 (type species by original designation Anapisona simoni Gertsch).  
Diagnosis: Specimens of Anapisona can be distinguished from other anapids by the single recurved distal apophysis on the male palpal femur (fig. 20), the dorsally elongated male palpal tibia (fig. 21), the presence of one or more stiff distal bristles on the cymbium (fig. 23),and posterior tracheae supplying the cephalothorax from a spiracle immediately in front of the spinnerets (Forster, 1958,figs. 24, 26).  
Description: See Gertsch (1941) and Forster (1958). Illustrations are presented here of the habitus (figs. 1-3), chelicerae (fig. 6),tarsal claws (fig. 7),and anterior labral spur (fig. 10).  
Species: Gertsch (1941) has supplied a detailed description of A. simoni which can be supplemented as follows: soft portions of abdomen with few sclerotizations; from above, posterior eye row slightly recurved; chelicerae with a retromarginal tooth and anterior knobs (fig. 2); femur I with ventral setae arising from tubercles; posterior spiracle precedes six spinnerets with tiny colulus. Only differences from A. simoni are noted in the descriptions below.  
KEY TO SPECIES OF ANAPISONA  
1. Males..................................2  
Females................................9  
2. Embolus with three or more coils, cymbium with a long ventral extension (figs. 4,5; Gertsch, 1941, figs. 27, 28).............3  
Embolus with fewer than three coils; cymbium without a long ventral extension..........6  
3. Embolus with four coils (fig. 4; Gertsch, 1941, fig. 27); cymbial extension with two bristles at tip (figs. 16,17).......................4   
Embolus with three coils (Gertsch, 1941, fig. 28); cymbial extension with one or three bristles at tip (figs. 18,19).................5  
4. Bristles on cymbial extension subterminal (fig. 16); Panama...................... simoni  
Bristles on cymbial extension terminal (fig. 17); Mexico south to Costa Rica........ kethleyi  
5. Cymbial extension with one bristle (fig. 18); Panama.......................... furtiva  
Cymbial extension with three bristles (fig. 19); Ecuador........................ ashmolei  
6. Palpal patella with a dorsal apophysis (figs. 20, 22, 24)..............................7  
Palpal patella without a dorsal apophysis (fig. 38); Guyana...................... kartabo  
7. Embolus relatively wide (figs. 8, 9, 25); Colombia and Venezuela................. aragua  
Embolus relatively narrow (figs. 21,23).....8  
8. Tegulum with an apophysis (figs. 11,20,21); Panama east to St. Vincent....... hamigera  
Tegulum without an apophysis (figs. 22, 23); Virgin Islands................... bordeaux  
9. Epigynal ducts with two or more coils (figs. 26-35)...............................10  
Epigynal ducts with at most one coil......14  
10. Spermathecae situated above pedicel (figs. 34, 35); Ecuador....................... pecki  
Spermathecae situated at or below pedicel..11  
11. Spermathecae situated at pedicel (figs. 26-29). 12  
Spermathecae situated below pedicel (figs. 30-33)...............................13  
12. Epigynal openings relatively narrow (fig. 26); Panama........................... simoni  
Epigynal openings relatively wide (fig. 28); Mexico south to Costa Rica........ kethleyi  
13. Epigynal openings relatively short (fig. 30); Panama............................. furtiva  
Epigynal openings relatively long (fig. 32); Ecuador.......................... ashmolei  
14. Epigynum with wings (figs. 36,42).......15  
Epigynum without wings (fig. 40); Colombia and Venezuela.................... aragua  
15. Six eyes; Panama east to St. Vincent....................................... hamigera  
Eight eyes; Brazil.................... schuhi
description: Published as part of Platnick, N. I & M. U. Shadab, 1979, A review of the spider genera Anapisona and Psudanapis, pp. 1-20 in American Museum Novitates 2672 on pages 6-7