Predatoroonops phillips Brescovit, Rheims, and Santos, 2012

Brescovit, Antonio D., Bonaldo, Alexandre B., Santos, Adalberto J., Ott, Ricardo & Rheims, Cristina A., 2012, The Brazilian Goblin Spiders Of The New Genus Predatoroonops (Araneae: Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (370), pp. 1-68 : 51-57

Predatoroonops phillips Brescovit, Rheims, and Santos , new species

Figures 24 , 332–342 ; map 3

TYPES: Male holotype from Reserva Biológica de Una, 15 ° 079–15 ° 159S, 39 ° 159– 39 ° 259W, Una, Bahia, Brazil, pitfall (Nov. 15–28, 2000, A.D. Brescovit) deposited in IBSP 46113 (PBI_OON 10994).

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name refers to the character General Homer Phillips, played by Robert G. Armstrong in the movie ‘‘Predator’’; General Phillips is the coordinator of the mission, who assigns Dutch’s team based upon its reputation.

DIAGNOSIS: Males of Predatoroonops phillips differ from those of the remaining species by the long, slender and sinuous subdistal apophysis and flattened distal apophysis with very slender tip on chelicerae (fig. 24).

MALE (PBI_OON 10944): Total length 1.35. Carapace 0.75 long, 0.55 wide. ALE 0.06, PLE 0.08, PME 0.08, ALE-ALE 0.06. Carapace white, with brown stripe along margin of pars cephalica, anterolateral corners without sclerotized projections (figs. 335– 336). Sternum, chelicerae, endites, and labium yellowish white. Clypeus with very small needlelike setae (fig. 24). Chelicerae anterior face without median and subdistal furrow, subdistal apophysis long and slender, distal apophysis elongate and flattened with very slender tip; condylar projection absent (fig. 24). Abdomen dorsum white. Legs white, femur I missing. Leg spination: I missing, femur: II d0-1-0; III–IV d0-1-0; tibia II v2-2-2- 2-2, III–IV d1-1-0; p1-1-0; v2-2-0; r1-1-0; metatarsus II v2-2-2-2, III d1-1-0; v2-1-0; r1- 0-0; IV d1-1-0; p1-0-0; v2-1-0; r1-0-0. Male palp proximal segments and cymbium yellow, bulb white, with short and large laminar

hyaline process and enlarged hyaline process with short and slender tip (figs. 340–342).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality, in the state of Bahia, Brazil (map 3).

Figures

Figs. 21–29. Predatoroonops species, males, carapace and chelicerae, frontal view. 21, P. dutch, n. sp. 22, P. dillon, n. sp. 23, P. vallarta, n. sp. 24, P. phillips, n. sp. 25, P. yautja, n. sp. 26, P. peterharlli, n. sp. 27, P. mctiernani, n. sp. 28, P. chicano, n. sp. 29, P. olddemon, n. sp.

Figs. 332–342. Predatoroonops phillips, n. sp., male. 332–334, Body: 332, dorsal view; 333, ventral view; 334, lateral view. 335–337, Carapace: 335, frontal view; 336, laterofrontal view; 337, ventral view. 338–339, Leg I: 338, prolateral view; 339, retrolateral view. 340–342, Palp: 340, dorsal view; 341, prolateral view; 342, retrolateral view.