Cicurina (Cicurella) serena Gertsch 1992
Creators
- 1. Cave and Endangered Invertebrate Research Laboratory, SWCA Environmental Consultants, 4407 Monterey Oaks Boulevard, Building 1, Suite 110, Austin, Texas, 78749, USA. E-mail: ppaquin @ swca. com & This is publication no. 15 of the Karst Biosciences and Environmental Geophysics Research Laboratories, SWCA Environmental Consultants
- 2. American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Central Park West at 79 Street, New York, New York, 10024 USA. E-mail: nduperre @ amnh. org
Description
Cicurina (Cicurella) serena Gertsch 1992
(Figs 96–97, 135)
Cicurina serena Gertsch 1992: 105, figs 109–110 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162.
HOLOTYPE female: “ 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).
Description. Female holotype
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.
Distribution. Reported from two caves: North Well Cave and Picture Cave No. 1 (type locality) (Uvalde County, Texas, Fig. 135).
Remarks. Male unknown. The specimen in the holotype vial of Cicurina serena 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 Cicurina pablo holotype – which matches the illustrations that he dissected Cicurina epigynum (without a specimen), which does not belong in Cicurella. The specimen from North Well Cave could not be located and examined to confirm the occurrence of Cicurina (Cicurella) serena in that cave. However, the locality is included in Fig. 135 based on Gertsch’s (1992) record and indicated by an open symbol.
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1962-11-03
- Family
- Hahniidae
- Genus
- Cicurina
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Gertsch
- Species
- serena
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1962-11-03
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cicurina (Cicurella) serena Gertsch, 1992 sec. Paquin & Dupérré, 2009
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.