taxonID	type	description	language	source
CC36E9F379E95F17B5098BC2C6D8887A.taxon	description	Figs 1 – 4, 5 – 10, 11 – 16, 17 – 20, 21 – 23	en	Ibarra-Núñez, Guillermo, Marín, Linda (2024): First record of the genus Falconina (Araneae, Corinnidae) from Mexico, with a description of a new species and observations on its interactions with ants. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100 (3): 1099-1106, DOI: 10.3897/zse.100.127612
CC36E9F379E95F17B5098BC2C6D8887A.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters derived from the Spanish word for coffee plantation, “ finca cafetalera, ” where this species was first collected.	en	Ibarra-Núñez, Guillermo, Marín, Linda (2024): First record of the genus Falconina (Araneae, Corinnidae) from Mexico, with a description of a new species and observations on its interactions with ants. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100 (3): 1099-1106, DOI: 10.3897/zse.100.127612
CC36E9F379E95F17B5098BC2C6D8887A.taxon	description	Description. Male (holotype). Color pattern and habitus. Carapace dark brown, pars thoracica lighter, eyes surrounded by narrow black rings; chelicerae dark brown, labium and endites brown, distal margins of endites white; sternum light brown with brown margin; palpal trochanter to patella light brown, tibia dark brown, cymbium brown; legs: coxa, trochanter yellowish brown, femur to metatarsus dark brown, with dorsal lighter patches, tarsus light brown; opisthosoma orange (light yellow in ethanol), with two small oval black patches at the sides of anterior half, a thick, transversal black band at posterior half, with a thin, transverse orange (light-yellow in ethanol) line near its posterior margin, the thick black band continues to the sides, narrowing, posteriorly directed, surrounding the spinnerets, dorsum with an orange (yellow in ethanol), narrow, coriaceous dorsal scutum on the anterior two thirds (Figs 1 – 2, 21). Carapace mostly glabrous, with very short, sparse, translucid setae, with a few sparse long setae on the ocular area; fovea longitudinal; chelicera geniculate, with prominent cheliceral boss, anterior face with abundant small tubercles supporting small erect setae and a few sparse long setae, promargin of cheliceral furrow with rows of long bristles, with three teeth (second tooth largest), retromargin with four teeth; sternum with scattered small tubercles and a few long, scattered setae. Dorsum of opisthosoma covered with abundant, small, translucid setae, darker over and around the black patches, with scattered long setae, venter with abundant, small, gray setae (Figs 1 – 2). Metatarsi III – IV with dense preening brush. Measurements. Total length 5.94; carapace length 2.81, width 2.25, sternum length 1.45, width 1.40; opisthosoma length 3.05, width 2.16. Anterior, posterior eye rows procurved; anterior median eyes largest, separated by a little less their diameter; anterior eye row width 0.76, posterior eye row width 0.90; median ocular quadrangle length 0.40, anterior width 0.46, posterior width 0.44; clypeus height 0.28. Legs measurements. I total 9.04 (femur 2.40 / patella 1.00 / tibia 2.20 / metatarsus 1.84 / tarsus 1.60); II 8.04 (2.32 / 0.92 / 1.84 / 1.76 / 1.20); III 7.57 (2.06 / 0.76 / 1.55 / 1.84 / 1.36); IV 9.97 (2.60 / 0.91 / 2.12 / 2.76 / 1.58). Leg formula 4123. Legs spination. Femora: I d 1 - 1, p 0 - 0 - 1; II d 1 - 1, p 0 - 0 - 2; III – IV d 1 - 1 - 1, p 0 - 1 - 1, r 0 - 0 - 1; tibiae: I v 4 - 4 - 4; II v 4 - 4, p 1; III – IV d 0 - 0 - 1, p 1 - 0 - 1, r 1 - 0 - 1, v 2 - 2 - 2; metatarsi: I – II v 2 - 2; III – IV p 1 - 1, r 1 - 1, v 2 - 2 - 2. Male Palp. Tibia heavily sclerotized, conoid, wider than long, its length about two thirds the cymbium length, with a rounded, prolateral apophysis (PTA) conspicuous, distally oriented, RTA bilobed, with a massive, subtriangular, median lobe (ML) projected retrodistally, concave on its inner face, and with a smaller ventral lobe (VL) with conical base, its retrolateral face membranous, where arises a long, straight, thin apical spur (AS) pointing ventrodistally, its tip slightly sinuous (Figs 5 – 7). Cymbium (Cb) about twice as long as wide, with a heavily sclerotized, wide, squared, prolateral basal process, having a shallow grove facing the PTA (Figs 5 – 6, 8 – 9); with a massive, heavily sclerotized cymbial retrolateral basal process (CRP) much extended proximally, opposite to ML, subquadrate, somewhat ear-like in ventral view (Figs 6, 7, 9), its dorsal face convex, its ventral face concave (Figs 6, 9). Bulb structures heavily sclerotized, subtegulum (ST) long, partially visible on prolateral view (Figs 5, 8), completely visible in the expanded bulb (Figs 11 – 16), in which is also visible the petiole (Pe), as a slightly sclerotized rectangular plate at the dorsal part of alveolus, united to the basal hematodocha (Fig. 12, 15). The spermophore (Sp) occupies the basal half of bulb; tegulum (T) convex, occupying almost all width of alveolus, narrowed on its proximal margin (Figs 5 – 10), prolonged distally as a prolateral, laminar tegular process (TP), longer than wide, subrectangular, slightly convex, with a longitudinal, lighter, less sclerotized stripe (TPlss), its distal prolateral corner rounded, its distal retrolateral corner pointed, its retrolateral margin (next to the less sclerotized stripe) hidden by the ventral process of the embolar base (VPE) (Figs 5, 6, 8, 9); embolar base (EB) rounded, heavily sclerotized, arising on the dorsal, distal tegulum, in ventral view hidden by the tegular process, in prolateral view between subtegulum and tegular process (Figs 5, 8); embolus (E) starting on the ventral side of EB, spine-like, angled at mid length (Figs 7, 10, 11 – 16), embolar base with two processes beyond embolus, a short, blunt retrolateral process (RPE) (Figs 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16), and a greatly developed U-shaped ventral process (VPE) issuing from EB, proximally directed, overlapping the distal-retrolateral area of the tegulum, then making an U-twist (Figs 7, 10, 13, 16), widening to form a heavily sclerotized, convex, subtriangular plate distally oriented, adjacent and overlapping the retrolateral margin of TP, in ventral view hiding the E and part of the EB (Figs 5 – 16); conductor (C) membranous, slender, sinuous, arising from the distal, retrolateral corner of T, flattened and slightly widened distally, ending in front of embolus tip (Figs 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 16). Female (allotype). Color pattern as in male, except palpal tibia, tarsus brown, tip of tarsi light brown; opisthosoma without dorsal scutum, posterior thick transversal black band with two middle, orange (light yellow in ethanol), threadlike chevrons (Figs 3 – 4). Measurements. Total length 5.32; carapace length 2.40, width 1.90, sternum length 1.27, width 1.20; opisthosoma length 2.92, width 2.20. Anterior eye row width 0.68, posterior eye row width 0.78; median ocular quadrangle length 0.34, anterior width 0.36, posterior width 0.38; clypeus height 0.18. Legs measurements. I total 6.20 + (2.10 / 0.84 / 1.80 / 1.46 / lacking); II 7.03 (1.98 / 0.78 / 1.61 / 1.40 / 1.26); III 6.45 (1.80 / 0.61 / 1.43 / 1.65 / 0.96); IV 8.74 (2.28 / 0.79 / 1.91 / 2.44 / 1.32). Leg spination. As in male, except femora: II d 1 - 1, p 0 - 0 - 1; IV d 1 - 1 - 1, p 1 - 0 - 1, r 0 - 0 - 1; tibiae: II v 4 - 4, p 2; IV p 1 - 0 - 1, r 1 - 0 - 1, v 2 - 2 - 2; metatarsus: III p 1 - 1 - 1, r 1 - 1 - 1, v 2 - 2 - 1 r. Female genitalia. Epigynum heavily sclerotized, wider than long, maximum width at posterior half; anterior plate (AEP) occupying about nine-tenths of epigynum length, posterior margin (PmEP) procurved, close to posterior margin of posterior vulvar plate (PVP), with a median, small, copulatory opening (CO) partially covered by a shallow hood (Figs 17, 19); with posterior margin of PVP almost straight, slightly projected over epigastric furrow, occupying about four-fifths of epigynum width (Figs 17, 19); dorsally, vulva with a wider than long, subrectangular PVP occupying the posterior two-fifths of epigynum, having anterolateral sclerotized extensions (ExPVP) joined to primary spermathecae (S 1) (Figs 18, 20); copulatory ducts (CD) visible in the cleared epigynum, long, slender, widening distally, ducts inside heavily sclerotized wide chambers, about half as long as epigynum, almost contiguous, ending at about one-tenth of anterior epigynum margin, where emerges on each, an anteriorly, small, globular secondary spermatheca (S 2), separated one from the other by about five diameters, followed posteriorly by an elliptic, disk-like S 1, just lateral and closely joined to the anterior end of each wide chamber, separated one from the other by about three diameters, its width about two diameters that of S 2; fertilization duct (FD) short, arc-shaped, sclerotized, originating on the posterior margin of each S 1, lateral to the point where extensions of PVP join to S 1 (Figs 18, 20).	en	Ibarra-Núñez, Guillermo, Marín, Linda (2024): First record of the genus Falconina (Araneae, Corinnidae) from Mexico, with a description of a new species and observations on its interactions with ants. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100 (3): 1099-1106, DOI: 10.3897/zse.100.127612
CC36E9F379E95F17B5098BC2C6D8887A.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Known only from the collection localities in Chiapas, México. This is the first record for a Falconina species in Mexico and the northernmost native species of this genus in continental America.	en	Ibarra-Núñez, Guillermo, Marín, Linda (2024): First record of the genus Falconina (Araneae, Corinnidae) from Mexico, with a description of a new species and observations on its interactions with ants. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100 (3): 1099-1106, DOI: 10.3897/zse.100.127612
