Description
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Female (holotype, MZB.Aran.500): Carapace 3.40 long, 2.20 wide. Abdomen 4.12, long 2.64 wide. Total length 7.7. Carapace with fine setae. Fovea a narrow groove. Chilum divided (Fig. 2). Endites slightly converging, labium longer than wide (Fig. 4). Color. Overall pale, chelicerae and ocular region darker (Figs 1, 3). Eyes. Vestigial, eye rows recurved forming 2.4.2 pattern, ALE>AME=PME>PLE, AME on small common tubercle, ALE and PME form slightly procurved row, PME closer together than PME-ALE, PME slightly more widely spaced than AME, eye group = 0.40 of carapace width (Figs 2, 3). Chelicerae. Large, partially porrect with lateral boss. Retromargin with 5 large distal and 2 small proximal teeth; promargin with 4 teeth, the third (counting proximally from the base of the fang) is the smallest (Fig. 4). Pedipalp. Tarsal claw with series of basal teeth. With two large ventral distal setae (ca. Silva Dávila 2003: fig. 28d). Legs. Formula 4123. Paired tarsal claws with series of basal teeth, claw tufts present, weak scopula present on tarsi and metatarsi I and II (Fig. 9). Retrocoxal hymen present on leg I. Trochanters deeply notched (Fig. 5). Tarsal organs slightly raised, dome-like, more distal on legs I and II than III and IV (I: 0.77. II: 0.73. III: 0.66. IV: 0.67). Macrosetae: I: fe p1d3; pa 0; ti v2.2.2.2.2; me v3.3.3; ta 0. II: fe d3r1; pa 0; ti v2.2.2.2.2; me v3.3.3; ta 0. III: fe p4d3r4; pa p1r1; ti v2.2.2p1.1d1.1 r1.1; me v2.2.2p1.1.2r1.1.2; ta 0. IV: fe p3d3r1; pa r1; ti v2.2.2p1.1d1.1r1.1; me v1.1.1.1.2p1.1.1d0.1.2r1.1.1. Spinnerets. Ecribellate, colulus absent, lateral spinnerets cylindrical with short apical segment, ALS separated by about their width, PLS and PMS with a number of large, conspicuous spigots (Figs 11, 12). Epigynum. Sclerotized plate with long, narrow lateral wings with concave posterior margins. Epigynal teeth sclerotized, arise posterior to lateral wings (Fig. 7). Copulatory openings on dorsal surface near lateral margins of wings, follow posterior margin of wings to reniform spermathecae (Fig. 8).
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- Jeremy Miller
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Distribution
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Amauropelma matakecil is known only from three caves in the Jonggrangan Limestone, part of the Menoreh Hills in the District of Kaligesing, Purworejo Regency, Central Java, near the border with Yogyakarta Province (Fig. 13). The Jonggrangan Limestone is located from 574–878 m above sea level (Bemellen 1949). This karst formation is a fossil reef with thicknesses up to 200 m at the southern margin of the Jonggrangan Plateu (Bemellen 1949). The formation dates from the Middle to Late Miocene (Sulistyaningrum and Rahardjo 2010). Karst makes up a very small area of the Menoreh hills, about 15 km2. The nearest neighboring limestone formations are the Gombong Selatan (about 72 km to the west) and the Gunung Sewu Karst (about 42 km to the east).
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- Jeremy Miller, Cahyo Rahmadi
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- Miller J, Rahmadi C (2012) A troglomorphic spider from Java (Araneae, Ctenidae, Amauropelma) ZooKeys 163: 1–11
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- Jeremy Miller
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- Cahyo Rahmadi