Meriola mauryi Platnick & Ewing

Meriola mauryi Platnick & Ewing Figs 3 d–g, 52–54, 93 Meriola mauryi Platnick & Ewing, 1995: 36, figs 97–101 (male holotype from Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in MACN, examined). Diagnosis. Males (Figs 53–54) can be easily recognized by the short, triangular RTA, the ventrally directed embolus, and the basally expanded tegulum. Females (Fig. 52) are similar to M. lineolata comb. nov. by having large, oval S2 flanked by the smaller, CDR and S1 (Platnick & Ewing 1995: fig. 101), and a small hood, but can be distinguished by the larger and more advanced hood (Fig. 52h). Description. Male and female described by Platnick & Ewing (1995). Natural history and habitat. Several specimens were collected in pitfalls traps. Distribution. Known from Distrito Federal and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, and Misiones, Santa Fe and Buenos Aires provinces in Argentina (Fig. 93). New records. BRAZIL: Distrito Federal: Brasília: Fazenda Água Limpa (FAL/ UnB), S 15.945111°, W 47.939820°, P. Motta et al., 1 male (UnB 6920). Same locality, 6.XII.2012, pitfall traps, P. Motta et al., 2 males (UnB 6954). Rio Grande do Sul: São Francisco de Paula: Fazenda 8 Cachoeiras, S 29.458967°, W 50.583994°, 3.II.1999, A. Bonaldo, 1 female (MCN 30748). Minas do Leão, S 30.091973°, W 52.063925°, 13.III.2008, L. Podgaiski, 3 males (MCN 44409). Same locality, 20.III.2008, L. Podgaiski, 1 female, 1 male (MCN 44411). ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, S 36.412991°, W 60.402024°, 1.IV.1983, E. Maury, 1 male (MACN-Ar 9403). Tandil: Reserva Natural Sierra del Tigre, S 37.379444°, W 59.128889°, V.2011, pitfall traps, N. Ferretti, 1 female, 2 males, temporary preparations MGM-00329–00331, MGM-00446, MGM-00447 (MACN-Ar 33023).
Published as part of González, María E., Grismado, Cristian J. & Ramírez, Martín J., 2021, A Taxonomic Revision Of The Spider Genus Meriola Banks (Araneae: Trachelidae), pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 4936 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4936.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4559165
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