Ochyrocera aragogue
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Ordo: Araneae
Familia: Ochyroceratidae
Genus: Ochyrocera
Name
Ochyrocera aragogue Brescovit & Cizauskas & Mota, 2018 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Types
Holotype male from Cave N4E_0008 (50°9'36"W, 6°2'21"S), Serra Norte, Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Parauapebas, Pará, Brazil, 07–12/X/2008, R. Andrade et al. (IBSP 174962). Paratype female from Cave N4E_0013 (6°2'18"S; 50°9'38"W), Serra Norte, Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Parauapebas, Brazil, 20/X_01/XI/2006, R. Andrade & I. Arnori et al. (IBSP 174983).
Other examined material
BRAZIL. Pará: HYPOGEAN SAMPLES: Curionópolis, Serra Leste, Cave SL_no number (5°58'35"S; 49°37'55"W), 1♀, 17–24/X/2008, R. Andrade et al. (IBSP 188853); Parauapebas, Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Serra Norte, Cave N4E_0008 (6°2'21"S; 50°9'36"W), 1♂, 07–12/X/2008, R. Andrade et al. (IBSP 174962); Cave N3_0070 (6°2'39"S; 50°13'48"W), 1♀, 03–17/IV/2013 (IBSP 174076); Cave N3_0078 (6°2'36"S; 50°13'43"W), 1♂, 03–17/IV/2013 (IBSP 174077); Cave N1_0125 (6°0'15"S; 50°17'15"W), 1♀, 07–28/I/2015 (IBSP 188850); Cave N1_0170 (6°1'23"S; 50°17'58"W), 1♂, 03–17/XII/2014 (IBSP 188851); Cave N1_0038 (6°1'49"S; 50°16'17"W), 1♀, 04/IX–06/X/2014 (IBSP 188852), all collected by Equipe Carste et al.
Etymology
The specific name refers to Aragog, a spider capable of communicating with humans and a lover of human flesh, from the literary classic “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, by J.K. Rowling.
Diagnosis
Ochyrocera aragogue resembles O. laracna by the yellowish green body color pattern (Fig. 10A–B) and by the short cymbial apophysis with two distal cuspules on projections (Fig. 10C–D, 11F), a unique character for both these Neotropical species. The male can be distinguished from O. laracna by the palp with a sinuous distal area of embolus without laminar spur (Figs 10C–D, 11A–B, D). The female has an enlarged distal area of spermathecae and pore plates at the spermathecae base (Fig. 10E–F).
Description
Male (holotype). Total length 2.3. Carapace length 0.7, ovoid; narrowing gradually anteriorly, with yellowish-green pattern, pars cephalica flat, fovea not visible (Fig. 10A). Clypeus length 0.7, curved foward. Eyes: PME elongated oval; ALE and PLE rounded. Chelicerae light yellow, promargin with seven teeth, attached to long lamina (Fig. 12A); retromargin without teeth. Sternum light yellow gray. Endites dark yellow suffused. Legs light yellow, formula 1423, total length I 7.0; II 5.9; III 4.1; IV 6.5. Male palp: palpal femur length 0.4; palpal tibia short, as long as cymbium; cymbial apophysis short, bearing two short distal cuspules at tip, in different heights, retrolateral long hair on non-projected base, next to the tarsal organ; with four basal setae (Fig. 11C, E–F); cymbial prolateral extension almost squared; embolus elongated, enlarged at base and subapically twisted (Figs 10C–D, 11A). Abdomen length 1.3, oval, uniformly green-purplish color (Fig. 9A). Six epiandrous spigots, with short base (Fig. 12B). Female (paratype IBSP 174983). Total length 2.0; carapace length 0.74, pattern light yellowish (Fig. 10B). Pedipalp without claw, with conical tip and subdistal tarsal organ (Fig. 12E–F). Clypeus 0.68 diameter. Eyes, chelicerae, sternum, endites (Fig. 12D) and labium as in male. Legs as in male, formula 4123, total length I 6.3; II 4.7; III 3.6 IV 4.3. Abdomen length 0.96, globular (Fig. 10B). Colulus triangular, with approximately 10 bristles (Fig. 12C). Internal genitalia weakly sclerotized, spermathecae tubular, slender in basal area and curved and thickened at distal area. Uterus externus shorter than spermathecae, internally with no visible chambers, ending in truncated neck. Oval pore-plates at the base of spermathecae, with approximately 25–30 glandular ducts (Fig. 10E–F).
Distribution
Recorded exclusively from caves in the Carajás region, state of Pará, northern Brazil (Fig. 19B).
Original Description
- Brescovit, A; Cizauskas, I; Mota, L; 2018: Seven new species of the spider genus Ochyrocera from caves in Floresta Nacional de Carajás, PA, Brazil (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) ZooKeys, (726): 87-130. doi
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