Scytodes sabbath, Iost & Alayón & Rheims, 2025

Iost, Flora M., Alayón, Giraldo & Rheims, Cristina A., 2025, On the Antillean spiders of the genus Scytodes Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Scytodidae), Zootaxa 5728 (3), pp. 496-530 : 524

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5728.3.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1E8C1A2B-F53A-441B-B7A5-2CBFF05B9215
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17895081
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DC8794-F641-3948-DCA1-F6E6FB1DF82B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Scytodes sabbath
status	sp. nov.

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Scytodes sabbath sp. nov.

Figs 122–125 View FIGURES 118–125 , 133 View FIGURES 126–134 , 137 View FIGURES 135–138

Type material: Holotype: ♀, CUBA: Camagüey Province: Sierra De Cubitas, Cubitas , 21.5482ºN, 77.7784ºW, 55 mts, 13−14 April 2012, Team CarBio leg., CarBio 00000046A, CU23 ( NMNH). GoogleMaps

Etymology. The specific name honors the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, formed in Birmingham in 1968 and widely regarded as the pioneers of heavy metal. Known for their dark themes and heavy riffs, the band concluded their career with a farewell concert, titled Back to the Beginning, at Villa Park, Birmingham, on July 2025, featuring the original lineup and numerous guest artists.

Diagnosis. Females of S. sabbatth sp. nov. are distinguished from all other congeners by the presence of a rounded OS and very long and strongly convoluted PS ( Figs 125 View FIGURES 118–125 , 133 View FIGURES 126–134 ). Males are unknown.

Description. Female (CarBio00000046A, holotype): prosoma pale-brown with dark brown markings; chelicerae gray with brownish margins; legs pale yellow with abundant brown markings; labium dark brown with two lighter spots; endites pale brown with brown markings around the edges; sternum pale brown with plentiful dark brown pigmentation; opisthosoma grayish-brown with dark brown markings ( Figs 122, 123 View FIGURES 118–125 ). Measurements: Total length 4.9; prosoma: 2.3 long, 1.8 wide; sternum: 1.25 long, 0.85 wide; labium: 0.32 long, 0.45 wide; opisthosoma: 2.6 long, 1.75 wide; eye diameters: PME 0.12, ALE 0.12, PLE 0.12; legs: I: absent; II: − (2.25, 0.5, rest of leg absent); III: 5.3 (1.5, 0.5, 1.3, 2.5, 0.5); IV: 7.5 (2.6, 0.5, 2.0, 1.8, 0.6). Female genitalia: positioning ridges shaped like a broken wish-bone, separated from each other by five times their width; fovea laterad ( Fig. 124 View FIGURES 118–125 ). Vulva: IS with the same width throughout, roughly twice as long as OS; OS rounded, covered with large pores ( Figs 125 View FIGURES 118–125 , 133 View FIGURES 126–134 ).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Only known from the type locality in Sierra de Cubitas, Cuba ( Fig. 137 View FIGURES 135–138 ).