Vindullus fugiens Rheims 2019, comb. nov.

• Main Author: Rheims, Cristina Anne
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Araneae; Sparassidae; Vindullus; Vindullus fugiens; Alta; Galapagos; Greenland; Fang
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5933057; https://zenodo.org/record/5933057

Vindullus fugiens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890) comb. nov. Figs 1–3, 27 Sadala fugiens O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1890: 66, pl. 9, fig. 10 (Male holotype from Montaña de Cahabon [Santa María Cahabón, Alta Verapaz, 15°36’ N, 89°48’ W], Guatemala, deposited in NHM 1901/3/3 -127, examined). Sparassus fugiens (O. Pickard-Cambridge). F.O. Pickard-Cambridge 1900: 124, pl. 9, fig. 4. Olios fugiens (O. Pickard-Cambridge). Petrunkevitch 1911: 499. Diagnosis. Males of V. fugiens (O. Pickard- Cambridge) comb. nov. are distinguished from those of the remaining Vindullus species, except V. guatemalensis (Keyserling) comb. nov. , in having palps with a loosely spiraled tegulum, a triangular projection at the base of the embolus, a long, laminar serrated projection and a prolateral spiny field (Figs 1–3). They are distinguished from V. guatemalensis by the presence of a laminar, rounded, hyaline conductor (absent in V. guatemalensis ) and by the small spiny field, restricted to the prolateral surface of the tegulum (extending ventrally in V. guatemalensis , Figs 4–6). Females are unknown. Description. Male (holotype): Prosoma brown, reddish brown at eye area and along lateral margins of cephalic region; thoracic striae slightly darker; fovea brown; eye borders black. Chelicerae reddish brown. Legs and palps brown; leg metatarsi and tarsi dark brown. Labium and endites reddish brown. Sternum brownish orange with brown margins. Opisthosoma yellowish brown with no distinct pattern. Total length 12.8. Prosoma: 6.0 long, 6.1 wide. Opisthosoma: 6.6 long, 5.0 wide. Eyes arranged in two straight rows; diameters: 0.46, 0.45, 0.35, 0.40; interdistances: 0.37, 0.22, 0.60, 0.73, 0.65, 0.45. Chelicerae with two promarginal teeth, the basal one smallest, four retromarginal teeth, the basal one smallest, and four strong setae at the base of fang. Legs (2143): I: 37.6 (10.3, 3.8, 10.2, 10.5, 2.8); II: 40.0 (10.8, 4.0, 11.0, 11.4, 2.8); III: 28.3 (8.5, 3.1, 7.5, 7.0, 2.2); IV: 30.4 (9.3, 3.1, 8.0, 8.0, 2.0). Leg spination: femora I–III: p1-1-1, d0-1-1, r1-1-1; femur IV: p1-1-1, d0-1-1, r0-0-1; patellae I–IV: 0; tibiae I–IV: p1-0-1, r1-0-1, v2-2 -0; metatarsi I–IV: p1-1-0, r1-1-0, v2-2 -0. Palp: tibia approximately half the length of cymbium with one prolateral and one retrolateral strong spine; cymbium with small retroproximal protrusion, oval alveolus and dorsal chemosensory scopula; embolus filiform (Figs 1–3). Female: Unknown. Distribution. Guatemala. Only known from the type locality. : Published as part of Rheims, Cristina Anne, 2019, On the huntsman spider genus Vindullus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae), pp. 572-580 in Zootaxa 4544 (4) on pages 573-575, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/2618561 : {"references": ["Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1890) Arachnida. Araneida. In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali-Americana. Zoology. Uol. 1. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 57 - 72.", "Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900) Arachnida. Araneida and Opiliones. In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali- Americana. Uol. 2. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 89 - 192.", "Petrunkevitch, A. (1911) A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 29, 1 - 791."]}