Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 5496 No. 3: 20 Aug. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-08-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5496.3.3
Page range: 343-369
Abstract views: 117
PDF downloaded: 7

An update on the genus Sparianthis Simon, 1880 (Sparassidae: Sparianthinae)

Grupo de Investigación Biodiversidad del Caribe Colombiano; Semillero de Investigación Sistemática de Artrópodos Neotropicales; Departamento de Biología; Universidad del Atlántico; Barranquilla; Colombia
Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas; Instituto Butantan; Av. Vital Brasil; 1500; 05503-900; São Paulo; SP; Brazil
Araneae Huntsman spiders identification key Neotropical region new records new species taxonomy

Abstract

Seven new species of the genus Sparianthis Simon, 1880 are described and illustrated: S. chicaque spec. nov. (♂♀), S. iguaque spec. nov. (♂), S. medina spec. nov. (♂♀) and S. tuparro spec. nov. (♂♀) from Colombia, and S. boibumba spec. nov. (♂), S. cascalheira spec. nov. (♂) and S. matupiri spec. nov. (♂) from Brazil. The female of S. megalopalpa (Caporiacco, 1954) is newly described and new distribution records are provided for S. caracarai Rheims, 2020, S. chickeringi (Gertsch, 1941), S. megalopalpa and S. ravida (Simon, 1898). The identification key is updated and new distribution maps are provided for all known species of the genus.

 

References

  1. Álvarez-Padilla, F. & Hormiga, G. (2008) A protocol for digesting internal soft tissues and mounting spiders for scanning electron microscopy. Journal of Arachnology, 35, 538–542. https://doi.org/10.1636/Sh06-55.1
  2. Banks, N. (1929) Spiders from Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 69, 53–96.
  3. Bertkau, P. (1872) Über die Respirationsorgane der Araneen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 38, 208–233.
  4. Caporiacco, L. di (1954) Araignées de la Guyane Française du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum, 16, 45–193.
  5. Chamberlin, R.V. (1925) Diagnoses of new American Arachnida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 67, 209–248.
  6. Derkarabetian, S., Benavides, L.R. & Giribet, G. (2019) Sequence capture phylogenomics of historical ethanol-preserved museum specimens: Unlocking the rest of the vault. Molecular Ecology Resources, 19, 1531–1544. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755‐0998.13072
  7. Forrero, D. (2006) New records of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Colombia and other Neotropical countries. Zootaxa, 1107 (1), 1–47. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1107.1.1
  8. Franganillo B.P. (1931) Excursiones arachnológicas, durante el mes de agosto de 1930. Estudios de “Belen”, 1931 (29), 44–49.
  9. Gertsch, W.J. (1941) Report on some arachnids from Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates, 1146, 1–14.
  10. Jäger, P. (1998) First results of a taxonomic revision of the SE Asian Sparassidae (Araneae). In: Selden, P.A. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edinburgh, 1998, pp. 53–59.
  11. Karsch, F. (1884) Arachnoidea. In: Greeff, R. (Ed.), Ueber die Fauna der Guinea-Inseln S. Thomé und Rolas. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der Gesamten Naturwissenschaften zu Marburg, 2, 60–68, 79
  12. Keyserling, E. (1880) Die Spinnen Amerikas. Vol. I. Laterigradae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 283 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.64832
  13. Levi, H.W. (1965) Techniques for the study of spider genitalia. Psyche, 72, 152–158. https://doi.org/10.1155/1965/94978
  14. Meagher, D. (2012) The mysterious Alexander Lindig (c. 1815–?1882). Australasian Bryological Newsletter, 60, 9–10.
  15. Mello-Leitão, C.F. de (1930) Aranhas do Cuminá. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, 32, 51–75.
  16. Petrunkevitch, A. (1925) Arachnida from Panama. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 27, 51–248.
  17. QGIS Development Team (2020) QGIS Geographic Information System, version 6.16.3. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. Available from: http://qgis.osgeo.org (accessed 16 May 2024)
  18. Ramírez, M.J. (2014) The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 390, 1–374. https://doi.org/10.1206/821.1
  19. Rheims, C.A. (2013) A new genus of huntsman spiders (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparianthinae) from the Neotropical region. Zootaxa, 3734 (2), 199–220. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.6
  20. Rheims, C.A. (2019) Extraordinarius gen. nov., a new genus of Sparianthinae spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae) from southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa, 4674 (1), 83–99. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4674.1.4
  21. Rheims, C.A. (2020) Revision of the spider genus Sparianthis Simon, 1880 (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparianthinae). Zootaxa, 4890 (2), 151–191. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4890.2.1
  22. Rheims C.A. (2023) Cuiambuca gen. nov., a new genus of Sparianthinae spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Brazil. European Journal of Taxonomy, 856, 152–169. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.856.2035
  23. Rheims, C.A. & Alayón, G. (2016) Neostasina gen. nov., a new genus of huntsman spiders from the Neotropical region (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparianthinae). Zootaxa, 4079 (3), 301–344. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4079.3.1
  24. Rheims, C.A. & Alayón, G. (2018) A new genus of minute Sparianthinae spiders from the Caribbean (Araneae, Sparassidae). ZooKeys, 742, 13–22. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.742.21819
  25. Rheims C.A. & Alayón G. (2022) Additions to the genus Neostasina Rheims & Alayón (Araneae: Sparassidae: Sparianthinae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 821, 166–199. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.821.1805
  26. Simon, E. (1877) Etudes arachnologiques. 5e Mémoire. IX. Arachnides recueillis aux îles Phillipines par MM. G. A. Baer et Laglaise. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Series 5, 7, 53–96.
  27. Simon, E. (1880) Révision de la famille des Sparassidae (Arachnides). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, 34, 223–351.
  28. Simon, E. (1887) Espèces et genres nouveaux de la famille des Sparassidae. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 12, 466–474.
  29. Simon, E. (1898) On the spiders of the island of St Vincent. III. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 65 (4), 860–890. [for 1897] https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb01390.x
  30. Stål, C. (1872) Enumaratio Reduviinorum Americae. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 10, 66–128.
  31. World Spider Catalog (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern. Available from: http://wsc.nmbe.ch (accessed 26 March 2024) https://doi.org/10.24436/2