Stenoonops canita, Platnick N. I. & Dupérré N., 2010

Platnick N. I. & Dupérré N., 2010, The Goblin Spider Genera Stenoonops And Australoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), With Notes On Related Taxa, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (340), pp. 1-111 : 31

Stenoonops canita , new species Figures 172–194

TYPE: Male holotype taken from palm buttress with stump W of Cañita at river flood plain, Panamá, Panama (Jan. 3, 1981; W. Suter), deposited in FMNH (PBI_OON 338) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

DIAGNOSIS: Males and females have not been collected together, but are tentatively matched here because of geography. There appear to be some slight differences in the sternal microsculpture, but there is insufficient material to confirm this by scanning electron microscopy and the only available female was apparently collected soon after becoming adult and is probably not fully sclerotized. Males can be recognized by the bipartite embolus, with a narrow ventral and a wider dorsal portion (figs. 179–184), females by the bipartite anterior genitalic projection (figs. 193, 194).

MALE (PBI_OON 338, figs. 172–184): Total length 1.22. Elevated portion of pars cephalica finely reticulate; posterior eye row straight from above, procurved from front. Endites with long, oblique, longitudinal ridge. Embolus with ventral portion narrow, dorsal portion wide (figs. 179–184).

FEMALE (PBI_OON 21102, figs. 185– 194): Total length 1.23. Anterior genitalic projection clearly divided into longer proximal and short, rounded distal portions (figs. 193, 194).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: PANA- MA: Panama´: upper Río Maje´, Bayano region, June 18, 1976 (L. Kirkendall, AMNH PBI_OON 21102), 1♀.

DISTRIBUTION: Panama.