Auyantepuia laurae Ythier 2015

Auyantepuia laurae Ythier, 2015 Diagnosis (Ythier & Chevalier 2020) Species of medium to large size when compared with the average size of the other species of the genus, with a total length of 21 mm in males and ranging from 22–28 mm in females. General coloration reddish brown. Carapace reddish yellow, intensely marked with brownish variegated spots around the ocular tubercle and on the anterior and posterior edges of the carapace; ocular tubercle darker, almost black. Tergites reddish brown with reddish yellow spots. Venter yellowish to reddish yellow. Metasomal segments reddish yellow, marked with variegated brownish spots on lateral and dorsal sides of segments I to V; ventral side with intensely marked variegated brownish spots on segments IV and V and weakly marked variegated brownish spots on segment III, other segments without spots. Vesicle reddish yellow with basis of aculeus brownish and tip of aculeus reddish. Chelicerae yellowish with variegated dark brown spots; fingers reddish yellow with dark brown spots, teeth reddish. Pedipalps reddish brown, with longitudinal dark brown spots. Legs yellowish, intensely marked with brownish spots. Carapace lustrous and acarinate, with some minute punctations; furrows shallow; anterior edge emarginated. Tergites acarinate, almost smooth and shiny. Pectinal tooth count 7– 7 in males and 5–6 in females. Sternites smooth and shiny, VII acarinate; spiracles rounded in shape. Only metasomal segments IV and V longer than wide; metasomal tegument almost lustrous, without granulation, and with a few punctations; segment V with spinoid granulation ventrally, weakly to moderately marked; carinae on segments I to V vestigial or absent; only lateral supramedian carinae are weakly marked on segments I to IV. Pedipalp femur with dorsal internal, dorsal external and ventral internal carinae moderately marked, internal face weakly granular, other sides smooth; patella smooth, with all carinae vestigial; chela manus dorsal surface weakly granulated on distal half in both sexes, internal surface almost smooth, with few scattered granules in male and smooth in female, dorso-internal carina weakly marked; dentate margins on fixed and movable fingers with six rows of granules. Material examined Holoype FRENCH GUIANA • 1 ♀ near Saut Sabbat, 50 km south of Mana and 50 km east of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni; under wood log; Jan. 2015; E. Ythier and G. Roy leg.; MNHN. Paratypes FRENCH GUIANA • 2 ♀♀; same data as for holotype; MNHN. Other material FRENCH GUIANA • 1 ♂; Mana, Camp Angoulème; 3. Mar. 2018; J. Chevalier and B. Tan leg.; JCAUANG19; EYPC, EY0169 • 1 ♀; Mana, path of the Forêt des Sables Blancs; 21 Jan. 2017; J. Chevalier and B. Tan leg.; JCPC • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 8 Jul. 2017; EYPC, EY0097 • 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 24 Nov. 2018; JCPC • 1 ♀; Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, ADNG path; 11 Jul. 2018; J. Chevalier and B. Tan leg.; JCAUADN18; EYPC, EY0168. Distribution Auyantepuia laurae is distributed in northwestern French Guiana and has been reported from Saut Sabbat (type locality), Mana and Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (Fig. 4).