Baalzebub antomia, Labarque & Piacentini & Pons & Hormiga & Arnedo & Ramírez, 2025

Baalzebub antomia sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

Males of Baalzebub antomia sp. nov. resemble those of Baalzebub jaibana sp. nov. by the overall light coloration ( Figs 53A–C View Fig , 54A–C View Fig , 55A–C View Fig ), but B. antomia can be distinguished by the opisthosoma smooth (i.e., no pattern) ( Fig. 55A–B View Fig ), whereas B. jaibana have one dorsal pair of round guanine silver patches centrally on it ( Fig. 53A–B View Fig ). Males of B. antomia can be distinguished by the retrolateral massive tegulum with several rows of spicules (i.e., see arrows in figure) and the base of the posterior serrated border of the median apophysis wider than long ( Fig. 55D–E View Fig ), whereas B. jaibana have the tegulum smooth (i.e., no spicules) and a longer than wide posterior border of the median apophysis ( Fig. 53D–E View Fig ).

Etymology

The specific name is a noun in apposition to honor Antomia, a mythological being of the folklore of the Emberá native people of Panama, which lives underwater and is responsible for causing people to shudder. Antomia is also known as ‘Madre del agua’ (Mother of the water).

Type material

Holotype

PANAMA – Coclé Province • ♂; Parque Nacional G.D. Omar Torrijos Herrera , El Cope , Sendero Las Ranas ; 8.668139° N, 80.592667° W; 790 m a.s.l.; 3 Jun. 2008; F. Labarque leg.; non-quantitative sample; voucher code STNQ38L013; preparation codes FML-00974, FML-00975; MIUP.

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Description

Male ( holotype MIUP STNQ38L013)

Total length 1.06. Prosoma: length 0.55, width 0.50, height 0.50. Sternum: length 0.27, width 0.30. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.07, PME 0.06, AME–PME 0.06. Opisthosoma: length 0.79, width 0.63, height 0.61. Leg formula: 1243. Dorsal shield of prosoma white ( Fig. 55A–B View Fig ). Dorsum of the ocular area white ( Fig. 55A–B View Fig ). Sternum light olive-green ( Fig. 55C View Fig ). Opisthosoma color overall light olive-green, smooth (i.e., no pattern) ( Fig. 55A–C View Fig ). Epiandrium, booklung cover, tracheal spiracle, spinneret field, and behind the anal tubercle light olive-green ( Fig. 55C View Fig ). Femora and patella white, tibiae greenish-yellow, metatarsi and tarsi brownish-orange; metatarsus I with strong prolateral macrosetae ( Fig. 55A–C View Fig ). Palp: paracymbium hooked, paracymbial process with setae row, median apophysis with a deep trough, conductor covering the embolic division, embolus laminated, multiple divided embolic apophysis ( Fig. 55D–F View Fig ).

Female

Unknown.

Records and biology

Record is limited to collections made at 895 m a.s.l. in the premontane rainforest at Parque Nacional General de División Omar Torrijos Herrera ( Fig. 1 View Fig ).