NERUDIA ATACAMA HUBER, 2000 (FIGS 33, 34) Nerudia atacama Huber, 2000: 87, figs 333–337. Nerudia atacama – Torres et al., 2015: 5, fig. 4C, D (see N. poma; misidentification). Diagnosis: Distinguished from known congeners by shape of procursus (Fig. 33A–C; distal half bent towards dorsal; same width over most of its length in lateral view), by bulbal processes (Fig. 33D–F; embolus slender tubular), by armature of male chelicerae (Fig. 33G, H; frontal apophyses at half length, pointing downwards, with pointed tip in frontal view, set with regular hairs; similar to N. flecha), and by epigynum and female internal genitalia (Fig. 34; epigynal plate with large posterior indentation, similar to N. flecha; internal genitalia with large round median ‘receptacle’). Type material: CHILE – Atacama: • ♂ holotype, re-examined; S of Domeyko, Cuesta Pajonales; 29.151° S, 70.980° W; 1200 m a.s.l.; 5 Oct. 1992; N. I. Platnick, P. Goloboff, K. Catley leg.; AMNH • 3 ♀♀ paratypes, re-examined; same data as holotype; AMNH. Other material (not re-examined): CHILE – Atacama: • 1 ♀; Cuesta Pajonales, S of Domeyko; 29.146° S, 70.997° W; 1080 m a.s.l.; 5 Oct. 1992; N. I. Platnick, P. Goloboff, K. Catley leg.; AMNH. Description (amendments; see Huber 2000): The distinctive male and female structures are shown (Figs 33, 34) in order to facilitate comparison with the newly described congeners. Distribution: Known only from the type locality in Atacama, Chile (Fig. 3).

Published as part of Huber, Bernhard A., Meng, Guanliang, Král, Jiří, Ávila Herrera, Ivalú M., Izquierdo, Matias A. & Carvalho, Leonardo S., 2023, High and dry: integrative taxonomy of the Andean spider genus Nerudia (Araneae: Pholcidae), pp. 534-591 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198 on page 573, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac100, http://zenodo.org/record/7981762