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Stemmops osorno Agnarsson 2006, COMB. NOV.

Description

STEMMOPS OSORNO (LEVI, 1963), COMB. NOV.

Synonymy:

Anelosimus osorno Levi, 1963: 47, fig. 58–61, ♂.

Types: Male holotype from Chile, Osorno, Lago Puyehue, 16.ii.1957, L. Peña, in KBIN, examined.

Comments: This small (1.5 mm) species is transferred to Stemmops. It has a distinctly round prosoma (Levi, 1963: figs 58, 59), characteristic of Stemmops (see Levi, 1964b). It bears a large colulus with a pair of setae, and has a hooded cymbial lock system, a combination unique to some species of Stemmops, and a few spintharines, albeit the latter normally have a small colulus (note that Stemmops groups with spintharines in the study of Arnedo et al., 2004, not with Pholcommatines as in the study of Agnarsson, 2004). It further differs from Anelosimus in having only two promarginal cheliceral teeth, with the outer one larger, by having AME smaller than other eyes, and by having a light central band dorsally on the abdomen. The palpal conformation is unlike that of any Anelosimus (Levi, 1963: figs 60–61), but resembles Stemmops bicolor, the type of the genus.

Notes

Published as part of Agnarsson, Ingi, 2006, A revision of the New World eximius lineage of Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae) and a phylogenetic analysis using worldwide exemplars, pp. 453-593 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146 (4) on page 512, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00213.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5426885

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
KBIN
Event date
1957-02-16
Family
Theridiidae
Genus
Stemmops
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Agnarsson
Species
osorno
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1957-02-16
Taxonomic concept label
Stemmops osorno (Levi, 1963) sec. Agnarsson, 2006

References

  • Levi HW. 1963. The American spiders of the genus Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 82: 30 - 48.
  • Levi HW. 1964 b. The spider genera Stemmops, Chrosiothes, and the new genus Cabello from America. Psyche 71: 73 - 92.
  • Arnedo MA, Coddington J, Agnarsson I, Gillespie RG. 2004. From a comb to a tree: phylogenetic relationships of the comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 225 - 245.
  • Agnarsson I. 2004. Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141: 447 - 626.