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Mysmenopsis fernandoi Duperre & Tapia 2015

Description

Mysmenopsis fernandoi Dupérré & Tapia, 2015

Figs 230, 231, Map 1 (inverse green triangle).

Material examined. Ecuador: Pichincha Province: Communidad de Junin (-00.28879 -7855665) 1285m, 8♂ 10♀, in Linothele sp. web., 4 Apr. 2016, E.E. Tapia (ZMH-A0001551, ZMH-A0001578, ZMH-A0001580).

Distribution. Ecuador, Cotopaxi, Pichincha and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Provinces.

Natural history. The specimens were collected in a Linothele sp. web at 1285m in an evergreen low mountain forest of the western Andes (BsBn04) (Iglesis, Santiana & Chinchero, 2013). The species inhabit the Andean ecoregion, it lives in sympatry with M. junin n. sp. in Imbabura Province, and in sympatry with M. chiquita in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas and with M. onorei in the Cotopaxi Province (Dupérré & Tapia 2015).

Notes

Published as part of Dupérré, Nadine & Tapia, Elicio, 2020, Megadiverse Ecuador: a review of Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) of Ecuador, with the description of twenty-one new kleptoparasitic spider species, pp. 1-81 in Zootaxa 4761 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4761.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3743503

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZMH-A
Event date
2016-04-04
Family
Mysmenidae
Genus
Mysmenopsis
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
ZMH-A0001551, ZMH-A0001578, ZMH-A0001580
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Duperre & Tapia
Species
fernandoi
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2016-04-04
Taxonomic concept label
Mysmenopsis fernandoi Duperre, 2015 sec. Dupérré & Tapia, 2020

References

  • Duperre, N. & Tapia, E. (2015) Descriptions of four kleptoparasitic spiders of the genus Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) and their potential host spider species in the genus Linothele (Araneae, Dipluridae) from Ecuador. Zootaxa, 3972 (3), 343 - 368. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3972.3.3
  • Iglesis, J., Santiana, J. & Chinchero, M. A. (2013) Region Andes. In: Galeas, R., Guevara, J. E., Medina-Torres, B., Chinchero, M. A. & Herrera, X. (Eds.), Sistema de Clasificacion de Ecosistemas del Ecuador Continental. Ministerio del Ambiente del Ecuador, Quito, pp. 86 - 88. [2012]