Scaphios jatun, Platnick & Duperre, 2010

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2010, The Andean Goblin Spiders Of The New Genera Niarchos And Scaphios (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (345), pp. 1-120 : 112

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/727.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6217B027-FFAE-C53A-E3A0-FD52A08AFE8F

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scientific name

Scaphios jatun
status

sp. nov.

Scaphios jatun View in CoL , new species Figs. 857–866 View Figs

TYPE: Female holotype taken in litter at an elevation of 410 m at the Jatun Sacha Biological Station , 1u03957.50S, 77u37900.20W, Napo, Ecuador (Dec. 1, 2009; A. Santos, C. Rheims, Niarchos Exped. ), deposited in QCAZ (PBI_OON 427) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females resemble those of S. wagra in having a T-shaped tip on the anterior genitalic projection, but have a distinct epigynal atrium (figs. 865, 866).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 427, figs. 857–866): Total length 1.65. PME oval; posterior eye row recurved from above, straight from front; ALE separated by less than their radius, PLE-PME separated by less than PME radius. Leg spination: tibiae: III, IV v0- 0-1p; metatarsi IV v0-0- 1p. Anterior genitalic projection relatively wide, with thickened, Tshaped tip, separated by atrium from laterally angular transverse bar (figs. 865, 866).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Ecuador: Napo: Jatun Sacha Biological Station , 1u03957.50S, 77u37900.20W, Dec. 1–5, 2009, pitfall, elev. 410 m (A. Santos, C. Rheims, Niarchos Exped., IBSP PBI _OON 428), 1 U ; 20 km S Tena , July 11, 1976, Berlese, forest litter, elev. 600 m (S. Peck, FMNH 33715 About FMNH , PBI_OON 10217), 1 U, same, Berlese, broken termite nests (S. Peck, FMNH 33727 About FMNH , PBI_OON 10229), 1 U .

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from relatively lowland sites in Napo province, Ecuador.

QCAZ

Museo de Zoologia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Scaphios

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