Ammotrecha
stollii (Pocock 1895)
Cleobis stollii Pocock, 1895a:
97.
Ammotrecha stollii (Pocock): Kraepelin, 1901a: 115 (as Ammotrecha
stolli); Pocock, 1902c: 65, plate 12 figs 8, 8a-b (as Ammotrecha
stolli); Kraepelin, 1908c: 211 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Banks,
1909a: 234 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Banks, 1913: 684 (as Ammotrecha
stolli); Roewer, 1932: fig. 132 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Kästner,
1933-1935: fig. 345 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Roewer, 1934: 598, figs
337e, 338b (in part, see Ammotrecha picta Pocock) (as
Ammotrecha stolli); Caporiacco, 1938: 254 (as Ammotrecha stolli);
Kästner, 1940: fig. 80 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Roewer, 1941: 183 (as
Ammotrecha stolli); Zilch, 1946: 151 (as Ammotrecha stolli);
Muma, 1951: 123-125, figs 272-276 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Roewer,
1954b: 63 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Roewer, 1954d: 381 (as
Ammotrecha stolli); Muma, 1970a: 50 (as Ammotrecha stolli);
Rowland and Reddell, 1976: 10 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Muma, 1986:
14-15 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Muma, 1987: 15, 21 (as Ammotrecha
stolli); Maes, Palacios Vargas and Jimenez, 1989: 6 (as Ammotrecha
stolli); Armas, 1992: 132, fig. 5 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Armas,
1993: 51-54, figs 14-16 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Vázquez Rojas, 1995:
31 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Armas, 1996b: 32 (as Ammotrecha stolli);
Armas and Maes, 1996: 18 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Vázquez Rojas,
1996e: 76 (as Ammotrecha stolli); Armas, 2000d: 65-66, figs 9a-d (as
Ammotrecha stolli); Armas, 2004b: 60 (as Ammotrecha stolli);
Brookhart and Brookhart, 2006: 323 (as Ammotrecha stolli).
Ammotrecha stollii
(Pocock 1895), female, from Guatemala.
Photo courtesey of Dr. Arthur Anker, University of Alberta.
HOLOTYPE:
Guatemala:
Retalhuleau (14°31'N 091°40'W) [Date?]
(Stoll), 1 male (holotype)
Original
description:
Pocock, 1895a: 97:
[TO BE ADDED AT A LATER DATE]
Pocock (1902) offered the following
diagnosis:
"♀,
Colour: head-plate pale yellow, ocular tubercle black with a
median pale stripe; mandible yellow, with the fangs ferruginous;
upperside of abdomen with a median yellow stripe, the sides of the
tergal plates fuscous, the fuscous area on each side about as wide as
the median stripe or rather narrower, on the posterior terga the median
stripe gradually dies away; lateral integument of abdomen ashy or
violet-grey above adjacent to the terga, the sides of the thoracic terga
also infuscate; palpi mostly yellow, with distal end of femur and tibia
lightly infuscate, the distal half of the tibia and the tarsus more
deeply infuscate, first leg pale, second only lightly infuscate, third
more strongly infuscate on femur, patella, and tibia, with an indistinct
pale ring around the end of the patella; fourth leg with the femur,
patella, and tibia strongly infuscate, with a distinct and broad yellow
ring around the tip of the patella. Width of head equal to
length of patella of palp, slightly shorter than its tibia and tarsus
and the patella of fourth leg. Mandible with upper
fang armed distally with three large subequal teeth and a small one
between the second and third set almost upon the base of the anterior
side of the latter; lower fang with two larger subequal teeth and a
small tooth between them nearer the base of the inner. Palpi
without spines on femur and patella; tibia with five pairs of
strong short spines beneath, and furnished with numerous cylindrical
bristles. Third and fourth pairs of legs with three
anterior and one posterior distal spine beneath; tarsus with four pairs
of spines beneath.
♂. Like the female in colour, but smaller, and with longer appendages.
Width of head much less than length of patella or tibia and
tarsus of palp or than patella of fourth leg. Upperside of the
tibia and the lower side of the patella of the palp with cylinder
bristles. Flagellum elliptically elongate, its upper and
lower edges widely separated.
Measurements in mm. - ♀, Total length of body 18; width of head 4.3;
length of palp 15, its patella 5; tibia and tarsus 5.3; of fourth leg
16, its patella 5. ♂, Total length 12; width of head 2.5; length
of palp 14, of fourth leg 15."
DISTRIBUTION: Costa Rica; El
Salvador; Grenada; Guatemala; Mexico; Nicaragua; U.S.A. (Louisiana, Texas).
