Chilelopsis puertoviejo

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

Chilelopsis puertoviejo is a mygalomorph spider of Chile, named after its type locality: Puerto Viejo, Copiapó, Region III.[2] The species is most similar to C. calderoni, but differs in having the distal portion of the male bulbal duct less sinuous and the female spermathecae of uniform width, with no differentiated fundus. It differs from C. serena in the undivided female spermathecae and the male tibia I having a dense apical patch of setae.

Description

Distribution

Sand dunes in Regions III (Atacama Region) and IV (Coquimbo Region).

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Chilelopsis Goloboff, 1995". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
  2. 1 2 3 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).

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