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Eremobates constrictus
(Putnam 1882)
Datames
constricta Putnam, 1883: 258-259, figs 2, 13-14; Barrows, 1925: 495,
figs 30-31; Muma, 1951: 117-118, figs 245-246.
Eremobates constrictus (Putnam): Kraepelin 1901a: 123, fig. 90;
Kraepelin, 1908c: 216; Roewer, 1934: 577; Muma, 1970a: 28 (designated as
nomen dubium); Muma, 1976: 17.
HOLOTYPE:
♂, no locality. Deposited Philadelphia Academy of Sciences.
Original
description
Putnam, 1883:
258-259, figs 2, 13-14:
♂
Length. twenty mm.; colors top
of head and base of mandibles reddish ochre yellow,
limbs
same color. but paler, becomlng
still lighter at the extremities.
Abdomen above dark olive brown, posterior border of each segment
grayish; also gray specks all over; jaws of mandibles dark red, changing
to black at the points; under side, of abdomen like upper. but more
yellowish, especially towards the posterior; eye prominence, and front
border of head black; tips of claws brown; eyes gray; mandibles with
stout spiny bristles; a brush of long hairs inside of the upper fingers;
contracted very suddenly at the fingers, which are slender and
spine-like.
Head seven mm. wide, five mm. long, without median
stria; hairs irregular, mostly fine, but some of them spiny, especially
at the sides and in front, eye prominence, moderately large, projecting
over the margin where it is prolonged into acute
point furnished with a number of hairs,
two of which on the front are larger than the others; eyes rather large,
their interval greater than t.heir diameter; mandibles,
base
three and a half mm.; upper finger five mm.
long; base only moderately
convex, suddenly constricted at the
upper finger, furnished with numerous spines and spiny hairs, and a few
fine hairs;
upper finger subulate, slightly arched,
directed obliquely downward and
slightly
outward, unarmed; furnished on the inside with
the usual brush of stiff hairs directed forwards; no flagellum. ("
Fond") of the jaw prolonged anteriorly into a conical projection
supporting the teeth. Teeth commencing above with two minute teeth on
the median line, then dividing into two
series
with a cavity between; the outer row consists
of four teeth of which the first (uppermost) is largest and projects
farthest to the front. The second is very small, the third is a little
smaller than the first, and the fourth is about the same size as the
second. The inner row consists of three good sized teeth, the first
largest, third next, second next. Lower finger regularly curved without
constriction; a large tooth near the base concave behind convex in
front; a small tooth near its base projecting forwards; a carina outside
extending towards the point; a rather heavy brush of feathered hairs
inside. Maxillary palpus: femur eight mm.; tibia eight and a half mm.;
metatarsus six mm.; tarsus two mm.; femur with a number of large spines
on the inside, especially
on the ultimate third; tibia with very
few spines,
but a good many fine hairs, mostly short, some
very long, irregular. Metatarsus with some fine spines near the base
inside, fine hairs elsewhere, mostly short, some long, on their inside a
cluster of oval or round
scales or pustules,
beginning two mm. from the base, and extending not quite to the tip;
tarsus with numerous fine, short hairs, some of them long.
Fourth legs: femur, nine mm.; tibia eight and a half
mm.; metatarsus five and a half mm.; tarsus four mm.; claws 1.8 mm.;
femur with fine hairs, no spine, one or two hairs on the back, long and
stout; tibia with fine hairs; two spines inside, near the extremity;
metatarsus with a row of nine spines on the lower inside; a row of three
spines on the lower outside, besides numerous fine hairs; tarsus with a
row of five spines outside and three inside, besides the usual terminal
spines and fine hairs. Claws, hairs, etc., as usual in the genus
Datames; abdomen oval, elongated, comparitively small, ordinary form
of ♂ genital opening underside of first segment; not as large or well
developed as usually seen; spiracle of usual
form on second and third
segment..
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