Styposis camoteensis Agnarsson 2006, COMB. NOV.
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Description
STYPOSIS CAMOTEENSIS (LEVI, 1967), COMB. NOV.
Synonymy:
Anelosimus camoteensis Levi, 1967: 15, figs 30–32, ♂ ♀.
Types: Female holotype and male paratype from Chile, Juan Fernández Islands, Más a Tierra, Valle Ansón, Plazoleta del Yunque, 200–250 m, Camote side, 1– 28.iv.1962, B. Malkin, in AMNH, examined.
Comments: This small (1.2–1.5 mm) species is transferred to Styposis. It has a large leaf-like colulus, characteristic of Styposis and Pholcomma (see Levi, 1964a; Agnarsson, 2004). Like other Styposis the lateral eyes and PME are large and close together, while the AME are small. The abdomen lacks a dorsal band, but has dark- and light-pigmented spots on dorsum. Both general habitus and genitalia strongly resemble other Styposis species. It is not clear why Levi placed this species in Anelosimus as he correctly states (Levi, 1967: 15): ‘This very small, large-eyed species resembles species of Mysmena...The palpus... except for a mesal sclerite, is lightly sclerotized and unlike that of any other Anelosimus species, except the larger A. tepus.’ Anelosimus tepus Levi, 1967 (= Styposis tepus) is described from a female in the same paper (Levi, 1967) but interestingly, although comparing the males of the two species, Levi did not describe the male of S. tepus, which remains known only from the female.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00213.x (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5426885 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/DF54F51EFF94FF9525062A7BFFBF6653 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/236D8D66FFAFFFAE25AB2C8BFA1C65D8 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH
- Event date
- 1962-04-01
- Family
- Theridiidae
- Genus
- Styposis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Agnarsson
- Species
- camoteensis
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1962-04-01/28
- Taxonomic concept label
- Styposis camoteensis (Levi, 1967) sec. Agnarsson, 2006
References
- Levi HW. 1967. The theridiid spider fauna of Chile. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 136: 1 - 20.
- Levi HW. 1964 a. The American spiders of the genera Styposis and Pholcomma (Araneae, Theridiidae). Psyche 71: 32 - 39.
- Agnarsson I. 2004. Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141: 447 - 626.