Ochyrocera minotaure
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Ordo: Araneae
Familia: Ochyroceratidae
Genus: Ochyrocera
Name
Ochyrocera minotaure Dupérré, Nadine, 2015 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Ochyrocera minotaure Dupérré, Nadine, 2015, Zootaxa 3956: 464-466.
Materials Examined
Type material. Male holotype from Ecuador, Pichincha Province, Nono, 18 January 1990, G. Quezada (QCAZ). EXAMINED. Other material examined. None.
Etymology
Etymology. The specific epithet is a noun in apposition in reference to the male clypeal prongs resembling the minotaure horns.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis. Males are distinguished from all Ochyrocera by the presence of two clypeal horns (Figs 29, 30).
Description
Description. Male: Total length: 1.8; carapace length: 0.8; carapace width: 0.7. PROSOMA: Carapace pyriform, narrowing abruptly anteriorly; shiny, yellow with brownish-purple median band and laterals bands; pars cephalica slightly elevated; fovea not visible (Fig. 29); with transparents lobes attached latero-anteriorly (Fig. 30). Sternum light yellow suffused with dark brown, except medio-anteriorly; as long as wide. Endites light yellow suffused with dark gray; labium light yellow, suffused with dark gray; notch. Clypeus sloping with brownish-purple band medially; high (3 x PME); with two prongs (Fig. 30). Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of eight teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin without denticles (Fig. 30). EYES: Six eyes surrounded by black pigmentation about equal size; PME oval, contiguous; PME-ALE slightly separated; ALE rounded, contiguous with PLE; PLE rounded (Figs 29, 30). OPISTHOSOMA: Oval; light blueish with dark brownish-purple pattern (Fig. 29); tracheal spiracle half way between epigastric furrow and spinnerets. LEGS: Yellow; tip of appendages suffused with brownish-purple tinge; metatarsus and tarsus with white rings pigmentation appearing as pseudosegmentation; legs II and IV missing; legs total length: I: 6.2; III 5.1. GENITALIA: Palpal femur long; palpal patella normal; palpal tibia slightly enlarged medially; with one dorsal, one retrolateral trichobothria (Figs 31, 32). Cymbium conical with squared extension prolaterally (Fig. 32); apical apophysis triangular bearing cuspule at its apical end (Figs 31, 32). Bulb spherical (Fig. 32). Embolus elongated, flexed and constricted at base, projecting forward; apically dark and curved with losange tip (Fig. 32). Sperm duct narrowing 1 / 3 from beginning to the tip of embolus, with one loose loop (Figs 31, 32).
Female: Unknown.
Distribution
Distribution.Ecuador: Pichincha Province. Natural history. Unknown.
Taxon Treatment
- Dupérré, Nadine; 2015: Descriptions of twelve new species of ochyroceratids (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from mainland Ecuador, Zootaxa 3956: 464-466. doi
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