Cubanops Sánchez

Sánchez, Alexander, Brescovit, Antonio D. & Alayón, Giraldo, 2015, Four new caponiids species (Araneae, Caponiidae) from the West Indies and redescription of Nops blandus (Bryant), Zootaxa 3972 (1), pp. 43-64 : 58

Genus Cubanops Sánchez –Ruiz, Platnick & Dupérré, 2010

Type species: Cubanops ludovicorum (Alayón, 1976) by original designation.

Diagnosis: Cubanops can be distinguished from Caponiinae genera by the presence of subsegmented tarsi (Figs. 13, 17), from other Nopinae genera (except Tarsonops Chamberlin ) by having a bisegmentated metatarsi IV (Figs. 13, 16); and from Tarsonops by having entire anterior metatarsi ( Fig. 17 ), a widened labium and a distally rounded and medially narrowed endites ( Fig. 76 ).

Figures

FIGURES 17 – 24. Cubanops luquillo n. sp., male. 17. Left leg I, prolateral view, arrow point at false suture on tarsus. 18. Same, femur, prolateral view. 19. Same, tarsal claws, prolateral view. 20. Same, join of tarsus and metatarsus, prolateral view, arrow point at translucent ventral longitudinal keel. 21. Same, tarsal organ, dorsal view. 22. Same, detail of tarsal organ, dorsal view. 23. Same, trichobotrial base, dorsal view. 24. Left leg IV, trichobotrial base, dorsal view.

FIGURES 70 – 76. Cubanops luquillo n. sp. male holotype. 70 – 72. Left palp. 70. Prolateral view. 71. Ventral view. 72. Retrolateral view. 73. Habitus, lateral view. 74. Habitus, ventral view. 75. Habitus, dorsal view. 76. Sternum and endites, ventral view. Scale line 0.5 mm.