Reductoonops jabin, Platnick & Berniker, 2014

Platnick, Norman I. & Berniker, Lily, 2014, ffle Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genus Reductoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2014 (3811), pp. 1-75 : 14

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/3811.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4597863

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C215537D-FFFE-FF9C-05F3-659FFDF4FD0D

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Felipe

scientific name

Reductoonops jabin
status

sp. nov.

Reductoonops jabin View in CoL , new species ( figs. 189–196 View FIGURES 189–198. 189–196 )

TYPE: Female holotype from Cenote (sinkhole) Jabin, 1.5 km W Kaua, Yucatán, Mexico (Jan. 5, 2003; J. Reddell, M. Reyes), deposited in TMM (34502, PBI_OON 21100) .

DIAGNOSIS: Members of this species differ from those of all other Reductoonops in being completely blind ( figs. 192, 193 View FIGURES 189–198. 189–196 ). ffle anterior genitalic process is relatively short and wide ( figs. 195, 196 View FIGURES 189–198. 189–196 ). One other completely blind oonopid has been described from Yucatán, Wanops coecus , but that species is very different, lacking sternal channels and having highly spinose legs.

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 21100, figs. 189–196 View FIGURES 189–198. 189–196 ): Total length 1.66. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Eyes absent. Sternum with anterior channels, surface smooth, microsculpture absent; setae densest laterally. Labium anterior margin indented at middle. Anterior genitalic projection relatively short, wide.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Mexico (Yucatán).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Reductoonops

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