Patrera witsu Dupérré & Tapia, 2016
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Dupérré, Nadine & Elicio Tapia. 2016. Overview of the Anyphaenids (Araneae, Anyphaeninae, Anyphaenidae) spider fauna from the Chocó forest of Ecuador, with the description of thirteen new species. European journal of taxonomy(255): 1-50.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Anyphaenidae
- genus
- Patrera
- species
- Patrera witsu
diagnosis
Diagnosis Males are easily distinguished from all congeneric species by their basally wide and twisted embolus and their large ventral tegular projection (Fig. 49). Females are distinguished by the shallow, pocket-like lateral epigynal grooves (Fig. 52).
etymology
Etymology The speciFc name is a noun in apposition is taken from the Kichwa language meaning ‘ twisted’, reFecting the twisted embolus of the male palp.
materials_examined
ECUADOR: Cotopaxi Province, Otonga Biological Reserve: 1 Ƌ, night collecting, 1 ♀, beating trees, 24 – 30 May 2014, E. Tapia, C. Tapia and N. Dupérré leg. (DTC); 3 ƋƋ, 2 ♀♀, night collecting, 00.42261 ° S, 79.5107 ° W, 2225 m, 4 – 7 Sep. 2014, E. Tapia, C. Tapia and N. Dupérré leg. (DTC); 2 ♀♀, beating trees, 00.41564 ° S, 79.00425 ° W, 2105 m, 4 – 7 Sep. 2014, E. Tapia, C. Tapia and N. Dupérré leg. (DTC); 1 Ƌ, 2 ♀♀, general collecting, 5 – 7 Sep. 2014, E. Tapia, C. Tapia and N. Dupérré leg. (DTC); 1 Ƌ, 1 ♀, beating, 00.42261 ° S, 79.5107 ° W, 2225 m, 12 Nov. 2014, E. Tapia, C. Tapia and N. Dupérré leg. (DTC).
materials_examined
ECUADOR: Ƌ, Cotopaxi Province, Otonga Biologica Reserve, 24 – 30 May 2014, night collecting, E. Tapia, C. Tapia and N. Dupérré leg. (QCAZ).
Name
- Homonyms
- Patrera witsu Dupérré & Tapia, 2016