Lycinus quilicura

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.

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]

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.

gollark: People will continue thinking "well, I want that chicken, I guess I'll just offer my 30G messy nocturne".
gollark: `Wants: free to good home but I'd really like a cheese or chicken`
gollark: Such is life in the land of dragons, in a cave.
gollark: Probably.
gollark: Ah, yes, such is "free"ness.

See also

References
  1. "Taxon details Lycinus quilicura Goloboff, 1995". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  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).


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