Brignolia jog, Platnick & Dupérré, 2011

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2011, The Goblin Spider Genus Brignolia (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (349), pp. 1-131 : 82-83

Brignolia jog , new species Figures 498–514

TYPE: Male holotype from Jog Falls, 14u149N, 74u509E, Karnataka, India (Jan. 20–22, 1990; V., B. Roth), deposited in CAS (38455, PBI_OON 2448) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the multilayered tip of the palpal bulb (figs. 506, 508, 514).

MALE (PBI_OON 2448, figs. 498–514): Total length 2.14. Carapace orange-brown, with dark brown egg-shaped patches behind eyes; pars cephalica strongly elevated in lateral view; posterolateral edge with pair of pits, posterior declivity with distinct shoulders, each shoulder with five tubercles in two irregular rows, posterior margin squared, sides with small diamond-shaped thickenings. Sternum covered with small round pits. Scuto-pedicel region with W-shaped scutal ridge, very deep but so weak near midline as

to appear like two V-shaped ridges, without tubercles, but sclerotization weakened abruptly at width of pedicel triangles. Palpal bulb long, distally sinuous.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Karnataka, India.

Figures

Figs. 498–505. Brignolia jog, new species, male. 498. Carapace, dorsal view. 499. Same, anterior view. 500. Same, posterior view. 501. Cephalothorax, ventral view. 502. Abdomen, anterior view. 503. Same, ventral view. 504. Carapace, lateral view. 505. Abdomen, lateral view.

Figs. 506–514. Brignolia jog, new species, male. 506, 510. Left palp, prolateral view. 507, 511. Same, retrolateral view. 508. Left palpal bulb, prolateral view. 509. Same, retrolateral view. 512. Endite, ventral view. 513. Left palpal bulb, dorsal view. 514. Same, ventral view.