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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Funnel Weavers (Agelenidae) » Ageleninae » Rualena
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Rualena male - Rualena - male
Copyright © 2010 Ken Schneider

Rualena male - Rualena - Male
Stulsaft Park, Redwood City, San Mateo County, California, USA
July 10, 2010
Size: 4 mm
Ventral view of left palp of collected specimen. The RTA is distal and does not occupy the whole tibia. Also, the shape of the RTA and general structure of the palp is very similar, although not identical, to figures 65 and 69 in Chamberlin and Ivie, 1942b. Finally, the AME are distinctly smaller than the ALE (not shown here).

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 10 July, 2010 - 5:30pm
Last updated 31 March, 2023 - 1:51pm

Moved
Moved from Funnel-Web Spiders.
… Ken Schneider, 11 July, 2010 - 9:53am login or register to post comments

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Nice work. Looks a little like both palps, doesn't it.

But how to go any further? (For those reading along: Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942b, describe several species of Rualena found in CA, but they only illustrate the male pedipalp for two of them.)

I wonder if someone is working on this genus or the family? Perhaps someone has some unpublished determination criteria/drawings/photos? (Maybe R.J. knows, or perhaps you can add this to your list of questions for Darryl, or maybe RC has some ideas about this.)

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 11 July, 2010 - 1:57am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Kevin -
yeah, I'll ask around when I get a chance. I'm going to move these to a new genus page for now - I'm fairly confident of the generic ID.
… Ken Schneider, 11 July, 2010 - 9:53am login or register to post comments

 
Yes, I think there's no quest
Yes, I think there's no question about the genus.

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 11 July, 2010 - 10:47am login or register to post comments

 
Rualena revision
Julietta Maya Morales, a PhD student under Dra. Maria Jimenez at CIBNOR in La Paz, BCS, Mexico has completed a revision of Rualena and it should be in press by month's end. She also revised Novalena.
… Jim Berrian, 25 January, 2016 - 6:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Jim -
that's excellent news, those genera are really in need of revision.
… Ken Schneider, 25 January, 2016 - 6:18pm login or register to post comments

 
The revision is now published!
Very cool. I think my spider must be either R. surana or R. avila. I need to get a better look/photo of the RTA, I think...

I don't think the Novalena revision has been published yet, but I look forward to seeing it!
… Ken Schneider, 23 March, 2016 - 10:24am login or register to post comments

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