Neischnocolus mecana Echeverri, Gómez Torres, Pinel & Perafán, 2023

Peñaherrera-R, Pedro, Guerrero-Campoverde, Ariel, León-E, Roberto J., Gabriel, Ray, Sherwood, Danniella & Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., 2025, Revisiting the tarantula genus Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925 (Araneae, Theraphosidae): new insights on male palpal bulb morphology and description of three new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 1022, pp. 19-50 : 30

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1022.3079
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BA169159-91E4-4DF7-A5A3-B6DE29ED14B3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17368945
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F70CAE07-FF9D-523F-AC0E-FEAC4EF3FAD8
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Neischnocolus mecana Echeverri, Gómez Torres, Pinel & Perafán, 2023
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Treatment

Neischnocolus mecana Echeverri, Gómez Torres, Pinel & Perafán, 2023 View in CoL

Fig. 2

Neischnocolus mecana Echeverri, Gómez Torres, Pinel & Perafán, 2023: 79 View in CoL View Cited Treatment , figs 23a–b, 24a–e, 25a–f, 26a–f.

Amended diagnosis

Males of N. mecana resemble those of N. iquitos by having an embolus with an acute angulation to palpal organ axis, intermediate keel without undulation, and absence of a median dorsal granular area. Nonetheless, males of N. mecana differ from those of N. iquitos by having a weakly developed prolateral superior keel, prolateral inferior keel disjunct and weakly developed, and coxae with ventral colour pattern (prolateral superior and inferior keel well-developed, prolateral inferior keel being continuous, and coxae without ventral colour pattern in N. iquitos ). For diagnosis of female N. mecana see Echeverri et al. (2023).

Type material

Holotype (not examined)

COLOMBIA – Departamento de Chocó • ♂; Jardín Botánico del Pacífico; 6.38000° N, 77.40000° W; elev. 28 m; 10–25 Feb. 2022; M. Echeverri, S. Gómez Torres and C. Perafán leg.; ICN [ICN-Ar?], ICN 12365 View Materials . GoogleMaps

Paratype (not examined)

COLOMBIA • 1 ♀; same data as for holotype; ICN [ICN-Ar?], ICN 12366 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Remarks

Echeverri et al. (2023) mention the presence of an apical keel; however, as we have not been able to examine this material, we are not yet sure if it is an apical keel or if it is the lower prolateral edge as Peñaherrera-R. et al. (2023) had confused in N. cisnerosi and N. tsere . Because of this, we did not include this character in the diagnosis of the species.