Paratropis lluspiosa, Tauber & Perafán & Pérez-Miles, 2025

Tauber, Emilia, Perafán, Carlos & Pérez-Miles, Fernando, 2025, Hidden cryptic spiders: Eight new species of Paratropis from Colombia and Ecuador (Araneae, Paratropididae), European Journal of Taxonomy 997, pp. 51-76 : 72-74

Paratropis lluspiosa sp. nov.

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Fig. 13

Paratropis elicioi [partim] – Perafán, Galvis & Pérez-Miles 2019: 8 (misidentified).

Differential diagnosis

Males differ from those of other species of the genus except P. elicioi by the palpal bulb very long and straight and by the absence of subapical triangular tooth on the embolus. From P. elicioi by the palpal bulb morphology with an abrupt narrowing in the basis of the embolus, the shorter palpal bulb length which reaches the tip of the patella, and the higher number of labial and maxillary cuspules. Females differ from those of all other species by the spermathecae morphology, with two receptacles with a long and straight neck with a longitudinal dorsal fold ending in a multilobed fundus. Other diagnostic characters were indicated by Duperré & Tapia (2020: 344).

Etymology

The specific epithet is a noun in apposition which is taken from Nariño slang which refers to an animal, person or thing that is difficult to catch, slippery.

Type material

Holotype COLOMBIA • ♂; Nariño, Barbacoas, Altaquer, Reserva Natural Río Ñambí ; 1°16′59″ N, 78°05′35″ W; 1400 m a.s.l.; 17–27 Jul. 2012; M. Medrano leg.; ICN-Ar 11435 .

Paratype COLOMBIA • 1 ♀; same data as for holotype; ICN-Ar 11436 .

Additional material

COLOMBIA – Nariño • 1 ♀; same data as for holotype; 1440 m a.s.l., 17–30 Jun. 2011, A. García leg.; ICN-Ar 6974 . – Valle del Cauca • 1 ♂; Ansermanuevo, Finc. Florida ; [4°34′18″ N, 75°45′02″ W]; 1600 m a.s.l.; 27 Sep. 2010; C. Santamaría leg.; ICN-Ar111271 • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; ICNAr111271 .

ECUADOR – Pichincha • 1 ♀; Santo Domingo ; [0°15′29″ S, 78°32′59″ W]; 466 m a.s.l.; 1 Nov. 1999; M. Rivadeneira leg.; QCAZ, MV-PAR-018 • 1 ♀; Nanegalito ; [0°04′06″ N, 78°40′38″ W]; 1500 m a.s.l.; 27 Dec. 1996; M. Davalos leg.; QCAZ, MV-PAR-015 • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; 1400 m a.s.l.; 23 Jan. 1993; C. Segovia leg.; QCAZ, MV-PAR-07 . – Quito • 1 ♀; Las Tolas ; [0°00′10″ N, 78°31′22″ W]; 20 Mar. 1989; V. Utreras leg; QCAZ, MV-PAR-031 .

Description

See Perafán et al. (2019: 8, fig. 2) and the redescription of P. elicioi and comments by Duperré & Tapia (2020: 344).

Remarks

Perafán et al. (2019) studied several individuals of Paratropis from Southern Colombia and Northern Ecuator and identified them as P. elicioi . Duperré & Tapia (2020) compared the characteristics of that material with the type material of P. elicioi and suggested that the specimens described by Perafán et al. (2019) are not conspecific, but they did not describe it as a new one. After the analysis of the evidence presented by Duperré & Tapia (2020), we agree with their conclusions and consequently proposed P. lluspiosa sp. nov.

Figures

Fig. 13. Geographic distribution of the new species of the genus Paratropis Simon, 1889.