Araneomorphae and Pseudoscorpiones from Estación de Biología Los Tuxtlas IB-UNAM
Welcome
This Araneomorphae inventory includes 235 species documented with 2,576 compound images. Species richness estimators indicate 83% completeness and varied from 312 to 424 species. For the complete inventory and citation, refer to:
Álvarez-Padilla F., Galán-Sánchez MA. and Salgueiro-Sepúlveda FJ. 2020. A protocol for documenting spider biodiversity inventories with websites applied to a Mexican Tropical Wet Forest (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Zootaxa 4722 (3): 241-269.
Download the Excel dataset for this inventory. It includes the raw data for all analyses published in Álvarez-Padilla et al. 2020: TUXV_2016_2018.xlsx.
Taxonomic names updated in Álvarez-Padilla et al. 2020
Acanthoctenus spiniger = Acanthoctenus sp01 = Species code CTENID0041
Ctenus convexus = Kiekie garifuna = CTENID0042
Ctenus peregrinus = Ctenus nr hibernalis = CTENID0043
Ctenus sp01 = Leptoctenus sp01 = CTENID0044
Kiekie curvipes = Kiekie nr_curvipes = CTENID0045
Phoroncidia sp01 = Chthonos sp01 = THERID0190
Glenognatha sp01 = Glenognatha minuta = TETRAG0151
Anyphaena sp02 = Anyphaena proba = ANYPHA0003
Grammonota nr_teresta = Grammonota sp03 = LINYPH0063
Modisimus sp02 = Modisimus nr_inornatus = PHOLCI0101
Beata sp28 = Beata nr_hispida = SALTIC0113
Corythalia sp04 = Corythalia binotata = SALTIC0119
Scytodes sp02 = Scytodes championi = SCYTOD0138
Scytodes sp01 = Scytodes intricata = SCYTOD0137
Dipoena nr_atlantica = Dipoena atlantica = THERID0170
Hentziectypus florens = Hentziectypus sp01 = THERID0184
Neospintharus concisus = Neospintharus rioensis = THERID0188
Thymoites sp02 = Thymoites luculentus = THERID0202
Tidarren sp02 = Tidarren mixtum = THERID0191
Phycosoma sp02 = Tidarren mixtum = THERID0191
Tidarren sp01 = Tidarren mixtum = THERID0191
Important: Tidarren mixtum was synonymized with two species, giving a new total of 235 species. Apply these changes to the Excel dataset if you use these data. Theridiidae has the most changes.
We thank Antonio Galán Sánchez, Nicolas Hazzi, Paulo Pantoja and Jimmy Cabra for these changes.
Locality data and description
Locality data: México, Veracruz, San Andrés Tuxtla, Estación Los Tuxtlas IB-UNAM. Plot 1 ha. Central coordinates 18.58225, -95.07558333, Alt. 217-172 m. Tropical wet forest, Lab. Aracnología FC-UNAM. Follow this link to a Google Earth view of the one-hectare plot.
Los Tuxtlas Tropical Biology Station is located at the northernmost distribution of lowland tropical rainforest in the Neotropics. It includes 647 hectares of tropical rainforest within the 155,123 ha Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve. Founded in 1967, the station belongs to the Instituto de Biología (UNAM) and focuses on research and rainforest conservation.
Los Tuxtlas has operated for more than 50 years and is one of the few Neotropical field stations with long-term research on biodiversity inventories, plant demography, forest regeneration, plant physiological ecology, plant-animal interactions, primate ecology, avian, amphibian and reptile ecology, and forest fragmentation. Invertebrate diversity is immense, and more inventories are needed to document and describe new species from the region.
Send comments and identifications to: fap@ciencias.unam.mx
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Rosamond I. Coates-Lutes and Estación de Biología Los Tuxtlas IB-UNAM for allowing this inventory. We also thank Wayne Maddison, Uriel Garcilazo-Cruz, J. Prószynski, J. T. Lapp, A. Santos and A. Rivera-Quiroz for help with morphospecies identifications.
We also thank Ali Zeltzin Lira-Olguin, Dulce F. Piedra-Jimenez, Uriel Garcilazo-Cruz, Ricardo Raña-Mendoza, Hugo A. Valdes, Josue Lopez-Granados, Jair Rojas-Castillo, Maira Montejo-Cruz and Edmundo Santillan-González for collecting specimens.
Funding
Funding was provided by UNAM-DGAPA-PAPIIT project IN214916, "Diversidad cibernética de dos grupos de arácnidos (Araneomorphae y Pseudoscorpionida) en la Selva Mediana Perennifolia de la Reserva de Los Tuxtlas."
Picture captions: Left picture: Hugo Valdes, Josué López, Dulce Piedra, Francisco Salgueiro, Fernando Alvarez, Antonio Galán and Uriel Garcilazo. Right picture: Fernando Alvarez, Antonio Galán, Dulce Piedra, Ali Lira and Ricardo Raña.