Cubanops alayoni Sánchez-Ruiz & Platnick & Dupérré 2010, new species
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
Cubanops alayoni

description: Cubanops alayoni, new species
Figures 68–163
TYPES: Male holotype and female allotype taken under rocks at an elevation of 630 m at Paso la Mina, Monte Viset, 4 km S of Cruce de los Baños, Tercer Frente municipality, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba (May 12, 2004; R. Teruel), deposited in BSC (596).
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Giraldo Alayón, the first arachnologist to study these spiders in Cuba.
DIAGNOSIS: Males differ from those of the other members of the species group in having the tip of the embolus wide, extending far beyond the subdistal process, and bearing subdistal as well as distal tiny prongs (figs. 104, 155, 156). Females resemble those of C. granpiedra and C. tortuguilla but have the median portion of the sclerotized anterior margin as wide as the lateral portions (figs. 162, 163).
MALE: Total length 2.93 (figs. 68–106). Carapace pale yellow, with dark purple margins separated from median reticulations by distinct submarginal unmarked bands, reticulations darker laterally than medially. Sternum dark orange, with submarginal darkened spots opposite endites and coxae I and II. Abdominal dorsum dark purple, with four white chevrons, chevrons largest anteriorly. Femora, patellae, tibiae, and metatarsi darkened except for subproximal pale areas on femora and subdistal pale areas on patellae. Embolus long, narrow, subdistal process situated far from tip, distally curved; embolus tip wide, with subdistal as well as distal tiny prongs (figs. 104, 155, 156).
FEMALE: Total length 2.93 (figs. 107–163). Coloration as in male except sternum with slight darkenings opposite posterior coxae, abdomen with smaller white chevrons. Anterior receptaculum triangular, high, anteriorly rounded, with sclerotized anterior margin as thick medially as laterally (figs. 162, 163).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: CUBA: Holguín: Cerro Las Tinajitas, Rafael Freyre, June 18, 2001, under rock (R. Teruel, Y. Pérez, BSC 607), 1 &, Oct. 9, 2002, under rock (R. Teruel, Y. Pérez, BSC 590), 1 &; Loma de la Cruz, Sept. 20, 2000, under rock, secondary forest (R. Teruel, BSC), 1 &. Santiago de Cuba: Jardin Botánico de Santiago de Cuba, Nov. 6, 1997, under rock (D. Maceira, BSC 594), 2 &, June 17, 1998, under rock (A. Sánchez, BSC), 1 &; La Cantera, Mella municipality, May 28, 2005, under rock (A. Sánchez, BSC 601), 2 %; Lomas al N del Cobre, Sept. 10, 2000, under rock (R. Teruel, BSC), 2 &; Paso la Mina, Monte Viset, 4 km S Cruce de los Baños, Tercer Frente municipality, May 12, 2004 (R. Teruel, BSC 592), 1 %, 3 &.
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Cuba (Holguín and Santiago de Cuba provinces).
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 page 18, DOI: 10.1206/3705.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4597743