Elaver chisosa explained

Elaver chisosa is a species of spider in the spider family Clubionidae.[1] [2] It was first named Clubionoides chisosa when circumscribed in 1966.[3]

The species closely resembles Elaver dorotheae.[3] It is about 1/5th of an inch (5.26 mm) in length overall.[3] Its carapace and appendages are pale yellowish brown, and its abdomen is gray-brown with dark chevrons and stripes.[3]

The female holotype was collected from the Basin, Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas, in September 1950 [3]

Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia of Life: Species recognized by Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), http://eol.org/pages/1203526/overview, accessed 11 Jan 2018.
  2. Regiane Saturnino and Alexandre Bragio Bonaldo. 2015. Taxonomic review of the New World spider genus Elaver O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Araneae, Clubionidae). Zootaxa, Vol. 4045, No. 1, 23 Nov. 2015, https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4045.1.1; DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4045.1.1.
  3. Roddy, L.R. 1966. New species, records, of clubionid spiders. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 85(3):399-407. DOI: 10.2307/3224319. JSTOR Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3224319.

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