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Mesotityus , Gonzalez-Sponga 1981
No full textGenus <i>Mesotityus</i> González-Sponga, 1981 <p> <i>Mesotityus</i> González-Sponga, 1981:5; González-Sponga, 1984:67, 100; González-Sponga, 1996:130; Kovařík, 1998:115 (citation only); Fet & Lowe, 2000:181.</p> <p> <b>Type species</b>. <i>Mesotityus vondangeli</i> González- Sponga, 1981, by original designation.</p> <p> <b>Distribution</b>. Only known from Aragua State, Venezuela.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis</b> (emended). Small sized species, rarely reaching 31 mm in total length, base color golden yellowish with dark brown spots on the entire body. Carapace subrectangular in shape. Tergites I–VI with a median longitudinal carina. Sternum type 1, slightly subpentagonal, with deep posterior depression. Pectines short, with 12–15 teeth in both sexes, with basal intermediate plate not enlarged. Sternites III–VI with ovoid stigmata; V with a small posterior median whitish area in both sexes. Metasomal segments I–IV with parallel ventral submedian carinae. Telson with a large rhomboid subaculear tubercle. Pedipalpal fingers with 12–14 rows of strongly imbricate rows of granules, without accessory denticles; spatulate digitoterminal macrochaetae absent. Secondary sexual dimorphism only slightly evident.</p>Published as part of <i>de Armas, Luis F. & Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M., 2006, On the poorly known genus Mesotityus González- Sponga, 1981 (Scorpiones: Buthidae), pp. 1-9 in Euscorpius 47 (47)</i> on page 5, DOI: 10.18590/euscorpius.2006.vol2006.iss47.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4649012">http://zenodo.org/record/4649012</a>
Phareicranaus humocaroensis Gonzalez-Sponga 2003
No full textPhareicranaus humocaroensis (González-Sponga, 2003) stat. n., comb. n. Santinezia sanarensis humocaroensis Gonzáles-Sponga, 2003: 15, figs. 24–31 (Holotype male MAGS- 135 a; paratype female MAGS- 135 b, “ Venezuela, Lara, Morán, Humocaro Alto”, not examined). Diagnosis. See González-Sponga (2003: 15). Justification of the new status: P. humocaroensis has autapomorphies that allow it to be distinguished from P. sanarensis [characters 9 (1), 15 (2), 33 (1) and 39 (0)]Published as part of Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2011, Species relationships in the Neotropical genus Phareicranaus Roewer 1913 (Opiliones: Cranaidae): two new species and new data from Penial morphology, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 3135 on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20784
Phareicranaus glaber Gonzalez-Sponga 2003, comb. n.
No full text<i>Phareicranaus glaber</i> (González-Sponga, 2003) comb. n. <p> <i>Santinezia glabra</i> González-Sponga, 2003: 35, figs. 76–81 (holotype male, MAGS-303a; paratype female MAGS-303b, “ Venezuela, Yaracuy, Urachishe, Maimire”, not examined).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> See González-Sponga (2003:35).</p>Published as part of <i>Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2011, Species relationships in the Neotropical genus Phareicranaus Roewer 1913 (Opiliones: Cranaidae): two new species and new data from Penial morphology, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 3135</i> on page 16, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/207840">10.5281/zenodo.207840</a>
Phareicranaus lamitisus Gonzalez-Sponga 2003, comb. n.
No full text<i>Phareicranaus lamitisus</i> (González-Sponga, 2003) comb. n. <p> <i>Santinezia lamitisus</i> González-Sponga,2003: 7, figs. 9–14 (holotype male MAGS-997a; paratype female MAGS-997b, “ Venezuela, Mérida, Cardenal Quintero, Las Piedras”, not examined).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> See González-Sponga (2003: 7).</p>Published as part of <i>Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2011, Species relationships in the Neotropical genus Phareicranaus Roewer 1913 (Opiliones: Cranaidae): two new species and new data from Penial morphology, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 3135</i> on page 19, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/207840">10.5281/zenodo.207840</a>
Phareicranaus lamitisus Gonzalez-Sponga 2003, comb. n.
No full text<i>Phareicranaus lamitisus</i> (González-Sponga, 2003) comb. n. <p> <i>Santinezia lamitisus</i> González-Sponga,2003: 7, figs. 9–14 (holotype male MAGS-997a; paratype female MAGS-997b, “ Venezuela, Mérida, Cardenal Quintero, Las Piedras”, not examined).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> See González-Sponga (2003: 7).</p>Published as part of <i>Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2011, Species relationships in the Neotropical genus Phareicranaus Roewer 1913 (Opiliones: Cranaidae): two new species and new data from Penial morphology, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 3135</i> on page 19, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/207840">10.5281/zenodo.207840</a>
Phareicranaus soledadensis Gonzalez-Sponga 2003, comb. n.
No full text<i>Phareicranaus soledadensis</i> (González-Sponga, 2003) comb. n. <p> <i>Santinezia soledadensis</i> González-Sponga, 2003: 17, figs. 32–39 (Holotype male, MAGS-463a; paratype female, MAGS-463b, “ Venezuela, Barínas, Bolívar, La Soledad, carretera Barinitas-Las Piedras”, not examined).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> See González-Sponga (2003: 17).</p>Published as part of <i>Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2011, Species relationships in the Neotropical genus Phareicranaus Roewer 1913 (Opiliones: Cranaidae): two new species and new data from Penial morphology, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 3135</i> on page 26, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/207840">10.5281/zenodo.207840</a>
Phareicranaus biordi Gonzalez-Sponga 1991, comb. n.
No full textPhareicranaus biordi (González-Sponga, 1991), comb. n. Santinezia biordi González-Sponga, 1991: 200, 19– 28 (holotype male, “MAGS- 945 a; paratype female, MAGS- 945 b, Venezuela, Sucre, Arismendi, Uquire, Parque Nacional Península de Paria”, not examined); 2003: 54, figs. 125–133 (revalidation); Pinto-da-Rocha & Kury 2003: 203 (as junior synonym of Santinezia serratotibialis). Diagnosis. See González-Sponga (2003: 54). Note. This species was synonymized with Santinezia serratotibialis Roewer by Pinto-da-Rocha and Kury (2003) without studying the holotype. In the same year González-Sponga (2003) considered it as valid and presented a redescription. Santinezia serratotibialis is synonymized in this paper with Phareicranaus calcariferus Simon, but we agree with González-Sponga (2003) that P. biordi is a valid species (see Fig. 1).Published as part of Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2011, Species relationships in the Neotropical genus Phareicranaus Roewer 1913 (Opiliones: Cranaidae): two new species and new data from Penial morphology, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 3135 on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20784
Metagonia juliae Gonzalez-Sponga 2010
No full text<i>Metagonia juliae</i> González-Sponga, 2010 <p>Figs 677–680, 1054</p> <p> <i>Metagonia juliae</i> González-Sponga, 2010: 20, pl. 5, figs 1–9.</p> Diagnosis <p>Easily distinguished from known congeners by modification of male clypeus (arrow in Fig. 679, slender process with bifid tip), by modification of male chelicerae (Fig. 679; pair of lateral processes and distal patches of ~10–12 globular hairs on each side), and by long and distally widened ventral hinged process on procursus (arrow in Fig. 678).</p> Type material <p> VENEZUELA – <b>Miranda</b> • ♂ holotype and 1 ♀ paratype, MIZA 105770 (MAGS 279), El Ávila National Park, Estación de Guardaparques ‘ La Julia’ [10.5054° N, 66.8116° W, 1140 m a.s.l.], 17 Jul. 1981 (J.A. González D.); examined.</p> Distribution <p>Known from type locality only, in Venezuela, Miranda (Fig. 1054).</p> Natural history <p>According to González-Sponga (2010), the two specimens were not collected from leaves but from crevices in road cuts.</p>Published as part of <i>Huber, Bernhard A. & Villarreal, Osvaldo, 2020, On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae), pp. 1-317 in European Journal of Taxonomy 718</i> on pages 189-191, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.718.1101, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4069574">http://zenodo.org/record/4069574</a>
Priscula piedraensis Gonzalez-Sponga 1999
No full textPriscula piedraensis González-Sponga, 1999 Figs 800–801, 814–817, 823–825, 1060 Priscula piedraensis González-Sponga, 1999: 145, figs 38–46 (♂ ♀). Notes The exact type locality is unclear. According to the collection card, it is between Santo Domingo and Las Piedras (i.e., approximately 8.88° N, 70.66° W); according to the original description it is in the surroundings of Las Piedras (i.e., approximately 8.89° N, 70.64° W). Each of our two new collecting sites below is close to one of the two possible original collecting sites. The male palp of the male holotype is very similar to that of P. andinensis González-Sponga, 1999, but the procursus is ventrally weakly curved rather than equipped with a strong protrusion (arrows in Figs 805 and 815). Some males herein assigned to P. andinensis (e.g., from Mesa Bolívar, SE Pregonero, etc.) are somewhat intermediate, though closer to the types of P. andinensis. It is thus unclear if the single male specimen known of P. piedraensis is just a morphologically unusual specimen of P. andinensis or if it represents a separate species indeed. Females of the two species appear indistinguishable, both externally and internally (Figs 816–817; the epigynum of the female paratype of P. piedraensis was not cleared; Figs 823–825 are from a newly collected specimen). The female specimens listed below are assigned to this species (rather than to P. andinensis) only because of the geographic proximity to the type locality. Tibia 1 in four newly collected females: 6.6, 6.7, 6.9, 7.2. Types VENEZUELA – Mérida • ♂ holotype, 1 ♀ paratype, 1 juv., MIZA 105603 (MAGS 1067), between Santo Domingo and Las Piedras [approximately 8.88° N, 70.66° W; see Notes above], 21 Jun. 1987 (A. R. Delgado, M.A. González S.); examined. New records VENEZUELA – Mérida • 2 ♀♀, ZFMK (22096), and 1 ♀, 1 juv. in pure ethanol, ZFMK (Ven20-107), Las Piedras, ‘site 2’ (8.9002° N, 70.6279° W), 1700 m a.s.l., at rocks near river, 7 Feb. 2020 (B.A. Huber, O. Villarreal M., Q. Arias C.) • 1 ♀, 1 juv., ZFMK (22097) (one leg transferred into pure ethanol, Ven18-234), between Santo Domingo and Las Piedras (8.8765° N, 70.6553° W), 1760 m a.s.l., 27 Nov. 2018 (B.A. Huber, O. Villarreal M.). Distribution Known from near Las Piedras only, in Venezuela, Mérida (Fig. 1060). Natural history The types were collected from cavities formed by erosion in road cuts (González-Sponga 1999). The newly collected specimens were found in small cavities on an exposed, vertical rock wall at the riverside.Published as part of Huber, Bernhard A. & Villarreal, Osvaldo, 2020, On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae), pp. 1-317 in European Journal of Taxonomy 718 on page 233, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.718.1101, http://zenodo.org/record/406957
Priscula limonensis Gonzalez-Sponga 1999
No full textPriscula limonensis González-Sponga, 1999 Figs 875–876, 911–915, 920–923, 1061 Priscula limonensis González-Sponga, 1999: 141, figs 29–37 (♂ only, see Notes below). Notes González-Sponga (1999) did not separate the male holotype from the other specimens, i.e., there is no MAGS 1214a and 1214b. In addition, the vial MAGS 1214 contains two males rather than just one, so it is not obvious which specimen is the holotype. Since there is no reasonable doubt that both males are conspecific, there is currently no need for selecting a lectotype and they are simply treated as types. González-Sponga (1999: figs 36–37) obviously used a juvenile for his drawings of the ‘female’. The female has a highly distinctive rounded process on the epigynum (Figs 876, 915, 921) that reminds of P. lagunosa González-Sponga, 1999 (cf. Figs 909, 917) but is larger and rounder. Females of two further similar undescribed species are available in collections: The MIZA has two females of a species with similar epigynal process, but in that case the process is directed more towards the front (MIZA 105757, MAGS 1389, from Pico Codazzi); the ZFMK has a female with a similar but much lower epigynal process (ZFMK, Ven20-182, from El Ávila National Park, near La Julia, trail to Rancho Grande). Type material VENEZUELA – La Guaira • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, 6 juvs types (rather than 1 ♂, 6 ♀♀, 2 juvs), MIZA 105760 (MAGS 1214) Hacienda “El Limón ”, carretera a Puerto Cruz [approximately 10.475° N, 67.283° W] (rather than 10.45° N, 67.25° W), 27 Oct. 1990 (A.R. Delgado de G., M.A. González-S.); examined. New record VENEZUELA – La Guaira • 1 ♀ abdomen (transferred from ZFMK, Ven20-175), ZFMK (Ar 22114), and 2 ♀♀ in pure ethanol, ZFMK (Ven20-175), El Limón, ‘site 2’ (10.4774° N, 67.2819° W), 1235 m a.s.l., forest along stream, 21 Feb. 2020 (B.A. Huber, O. Villarreal M.). Description of female Habitus as in Figs 875–876. Carapace with dark median mark and lateral bands, without radial marks; sternum dark brown, medially slightly lighter. AME either tiny (diameter in paratype: 20 µm), or with dark pigment but without lenses (one of the newly collected females). Legs with dark rings on femora (incomplete ring proximally, complete rings at half-length and subdistally), on tibiae (proximally, at half length, and subdistally), and metatarsi (proximally). Tibia 1 in two newly collected females: 3.8, 4.2. Epigynum with distinctive rounded process (Figs 914–915, 920–921), with dark transversal band separating anterior hairless area from hairy rest of epigynal plate. Internal genitalia (newly collected female; Figs 911, 922–923), with pair of oval pore plates, simple evenly rounded anterior ‘valve’. Distribution Known from El Limón area only, in Venezuela, La Guaira (Fig. 1061). Natural history The types were collected from overhanging road cuts composed of grasses, leaf litter and soil, in a secondary forest with coffee and banana plants (González-Sponga 1999). The newly collected specimens were found in small holes and cavities in the ground in a well preserved humid forest fragment.Published as part of Huber, Bernhard A. & Villarreal, Osvaldo, 2020, On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae), pp. 1-317 in European Journal of Taxonomy 718 on pages 258-259, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.718.1101, http://zenodo.org/record/406957
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