Lycinus quilicura

Lycinus quilicura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Infraorder:Mygalomorphae
Family:Nemesiidae
Genus:Lycinus
Species: L. quilicura
Binomial name
Lycinus quilicura
Goloboff, 1995[1]

Lycinus quilicura is a mygalomorph spider of Chile, named after its type locality: Quilicura, Región Metropolitana.[2] The species is distinguished from others in the genus by its distinctly long embolus.

Description

  • Male: total length 21.2 millimetres (0.83 in); cephalothorax length 9.7 millimetres (0.38 in), width 8.3 millimetres (0.33 in); cephalic region length 5.5 millimetres (0.22 in), width 5.2 millimetres (0.20 in); medial ocular quadrangle length 0.75 millimetres (0.030 in), width 1.41 millimetres (0.056 in); labium length 0.9 millimetres (0.035 in), width 1.6 millimetres (0.063 in); sternum length 5 millimetres (0.20 in), width 4.05 millimetres (0.159 in). Its labium and maxillae lack cuspules. A serrula is absent or quite reduced. Chelicerae: rastellum is weak, formed by long and stiff bristles; its fang furrow possesses 12 medium sized denticles. Cheliceral tumescence is rounded and flat. Its leg I and tibia are unmodified and lack an apophysis, while its metatarsus is straight. The entire spider is blackish brown and densely covered with a golden-brown pubescence; chevron (similar to L. gajardoi and other Chilean species of its genus) almost completely occluded by a very dark color and pubescence.[2]

Distribution and Behaviour

Only from its type locality, Región Metropolitana.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Taxon details Lycinus quilicura Goloboff, 1995". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  2. 1 2 Goloboff, Pablo A. "A revision of the South American spiders of the family Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Part 1, Species from Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. Bulletin of the AMNH; no. 224." (1995).
  • "Lycinus quilicura". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • ADW entry
  • Lycinus quilicura at the Encyclopedia of Life Edit this at Wikidata


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