Niarchos florezi, 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 : 35

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/727.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6217B027-FFE3-C577-E385-FCAFA024FEC3

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scientific name

Niarchos florezi
status

sp. nov.

Niarchos florezi View in CoL , new species Figures 213–225 View Figs

TYPE: Male holotype from a Berlese sample of litter taken at an elevation of 1800 m in a secondary forest at ‘‘ Pereira , correg. La Florida , yda. La Suiza, Otun Quimbaya,’’ 4u449N, 75u359W, Risaralda, Colombia (Mar. 25, 2005; A. Sabogal), deposited in ICN (PBI_OON 438) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Eduardo Florez (ICN), a distinguished Colombian arachnologist who has made available for study many fascinating Colombian oonopids.

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of N. wygodzinskyi in having a distally bent tip on the relatively narrow retroventral projection on the palpal bulb, and an elongated embolar region, but have a larger, thicker embolus (figs. 221–225).

MALE (PBI_OON 438, figs. 213–225): Total length 1.78. Posterior eye row straight from above; PLE-PME separated by PME radius to PME diameter. Sternum surface finely reticulate. Endites with anterior projection triangular, expanded posteriorly. Leg spination: tibiae III, IV v0-0- 1p. Embolus long, strong, curved; bulb with short, distally bent retroventral projection (figs. 221–225).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Four males taken with the holotype (ICN, AMNH PBI_OON 40823).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Risaralda department, Colombia.

ICN

Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Niarchos

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