Tantra bugle, Labarque & Piacentini & Pons & Hormiga & Arnedo & Ramírez, 2025

Tantra bugle gen. et sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

Females of Tantra bugle gen. et sp. nov. resemble those of Tantra wounaan gen. et sp. nov. by the wide guanine silver stripe, open posteriorly, encircling most of the opisthosoma ( Figs 35A–C View Fig , 37A–C View Fig ), but T. bugle can be distinguished by the smooth (i.e., no pattern) light olive-green dorsum of the opisthosoma ( Fig. 35A View Fig ), whereas T. wounaan have the dorsum of the opisthosoma with dark olive-green irregular lines (i.e., zigzag; Fig. 37A View Fig ). Males of T. bugle resemble those of T. wounaan by the tegular pocket elongated and acute, and the conductor extension with a retrolateral projection ( Figs 34D–F View Fig , 36D–F View Fig ), but T. bugle can be distinguished by the conductor apophysis short, not exceeding the conductor extension posteriorly, and the tegular pocket anterior side forming a rectangle ( Fig. 34E–F View Fig ), whereas T. wounaan have the apophysis long and the anterior side of the pocket pointed ( Fig. 36E–F View Fig ).

Etymology

The specific name is a noun in apposition to honor the Buglé native people of Panama, which derived from the union of two words, ‘bu’ and ‘gle’, that mean ‘people, to live’, or ‘to be present’ and ‘Earth’ or ‘resources’, respectively, in the Buglere language.

Type material

Holotype

PANAMA – Chiriquí Province • ♂; Reserva Forestal Fortuna , Quebrada Honda , one-hectare PANCODING inventory; 8.750083° N, 82.239083° W; 1135 m a.s.l.; 7–12 Jun. 2007; M. Arnedo, D. Dimitrov, G. Hormiga, F. Labarque and M. Ramírez leg.; voucher code SFB1D8H019; MIUP.

GoogleMaps

Paratypes

PANAMA – Chiriquí Province • 1 ♂; same data as for holotype; voucher code SFU2NAD032; preparation codes FML-00690, LNP-00260; DNA code thes4113; GenBank PX096919 ; MACN-Ar 29366 GoogleMaps • 1 ♀; same data as for holotype; voucher code SFU2NBH034; preparation codes FML-00694, FML-00746, LNP-00276; DNA de thes4065; GenBank PX096918 ; MACN-Ar 29359 GoogleMaps • 1 ♂; same data as for holotype; voucher code SFD1NAL019; DNA barcode SPIPA343-10 ; MCZ GoogleMaps • 1 ♂; same data as for holotype; voucher code SFD1NCH021; DNA barcode SPIPA342-10 ; CRBA GoogleMaps • 1 ♀; same data as for holotype; voucher code SFU1D9A009; preparation code FML-00982; DNA barcode SPIPA344-10 ; CRBA. GoogleMaps

Other material

PANAMA – Chiriquí Province • 1 ♀; same data as for holotype; voucher code SFU1NCR034; DNA code thes4177; GenBank PX096920 ; MCZ GoogleMaps • 1 ♀; same data as for holotype; voucher code SFU1NBA029; DNA code thes4259; GenBank PX096922 ; MACN-Ar 29358 GoogleMaps • 1 ♂; same data as for holotype; voucher code SFB1DAR031; DNA code thes4181; GenBank PX096921 ; CRBA GoogleMaps • 13 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀; same data as for holotype; MCZ GoogleMaps • 4 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀; same data as for holotype; MIUP GoogleMaps • 13 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀; same data as for holotype; MACN-Ar GoogleMaps • 13 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀; same data as for holotype; CRBA GoogleMaps • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; same locality as for holotype; 21–24 Jun. 2008; L. Piacentini and F. Labarque leg.; non-quantitative sample; MACN-Ar GoogleMaps • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; voucher code SFNQP8L012; DNA barcode SPIPA222-10 ; MACN-Ar. GoogleMaps

Description

Male ( paratypes MACN-Ar 29366, CRBA SFU1D9A009)

Total length 1.43. Prosoma: length 0.84, width 0.68, height 0.59. Sternum: length 0.38, width 0.38. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.09, PME 0.07, AME–PME 0.09. Opisthosoma: length 0.98, width 0.78, height 0.66. Leg formula: 1243. Dorsal shield of prosoma yellowish-white laterally, greenish-yellow centrally ( Fig. 34A–B View Fig ). Dorsum of the ocular area greenish-yellow ( Fig. 34A–B View Fig ). Sternum greenish-yellow ( Fig. 34C View Fig ). Opisthosoma color overall yellowish-white, dorsally lighter, with dispersed silver guanine blotches anteriorly ( Fig. 34A–B View Fig ). Epiandrium, booklung cover, tracheal spiracle, spinneret field and behind anal tubercle olive-green ( Fig. 34C View Fig ). Femora and patella yellowish-white, tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi orange ( Fig. 34A–C View Fig ). Palp: paracymbium hooked, paracymbial process with setae row, tegulum striated with tegular spur elongated, acute, median apophysis elongated with median groove, conductor covering embolic division, conductor posterior extension with retrolateral projection, conductor apophysis relatively short, embolus laminated, multiple divided embolic apophysis, retrolateral branch filiform, sclerotized, elongated, protruding from beneath conductor ( Fig. 34D–F View Fig ).

Female ( paratype MACN-Ar 29359)

Total length 1.95. Prosoma: length 0.97, width 0.81, height 0.71. Sternum: length 0.43, width 0.44. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.09, PME 0.08, AME–PME 0.10. Opisthosoma: length 1.65, width 1.40, height 1.09. Leg formula: 1243. Coloration olive-greener than male ( Fig. 35A–C View Fig ). Dorsal shield of prosoma olive-green centrally ( Fig. 35A–B View Fig ). Dorsum of ocular area olive-green ( Fig. 35A–B View Fig ). Sternum olive-green ( Fig. 35C View Fig ). Dorsum of opisthosoma light olive-green ( Fig. 35A View Fig ) with wide guanine silver stripe, open posteriorly, encircling most of opisthosoma ( Fig. 35B–C View Fig ). Booklungs cover, tracheal spiracle, and behind anal tubercle dark olive-green, spinneret field olive-green ( Fig. 35C View Fig ). Epigynal plate whitish-orange ( Fig. 35B–C View Fig ). Epigynal plate: domed, dorsal-lateral spurs extending to midline, dorsal epigynal plate exposed ( Fig. 35B–C View Fig ). Vulva: convoluted copulatory ducts, proximal copulatory ducts with patch of gland ducts dorsally, distal copulatory ducts coiling dorso-ventrally and inserting ventromedially posteriorly into the spermathecae, spermathecae round, sclerotized, and connate (i.e., fused along midline), fertilization ducts sclerotized, emerging laterally posteriorly from spermathecae, curving dorsally anteriorly to meet uterus externus ( Fig. 35C View Fig ).

Records and biology

Records are limited to collections made at 1135 m a.s.l. in premontane rainforest from Reserva Forestal Fortuna ( Fig. 1 View Fig ). Males and females have been collected mostly during the night by looking up, and less frequently also during the day by beating, looking down and cryptic techniques.

Variation

Some females examined have a darker coloration than the described specimens, and some males have dispersed silver guanine blotches covering the dorsum of the opisthosoma.