Brignolia kaikatty, 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 : 73-76

Brignolia kaikatty , new species

Figures 425–441

TYPE: Male holotype from taken by sifting in a forest at an elevation of 900 m at Kaikatty in the Nelliampathi Hills, NE Anaimalai Hills, Kerala, India (Nov. 30, 1972; C. Besuchet, I. Löbl), deposited in MHNG (PBI_OON 12871) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the retrolaterally invaginated dorsal protuberance on the palpal bulb (figs. 434, 436, 438).

MALE (PBI_OON 12871, figs. 425–441): Total length 1.39. Carapace orange-brown, without any pattern; pars cephalica strongly elevated in lateral view; posterolateral edge without pits, posterior declivity with distinct shoulders, posterior margin squared. Sternum covered with small round pits. Scutopedicel region with W-shaped scutal ridge, weak at middle, with secondary dorsal ridge, without tubercles. Palpal bulb with deep

dorsal excavation behind rounded dorsal protrusion.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Kerala, India.

Figures

Figs. 425–432. Brignolia kaikatty, new species, male. 425. Carapace, dorsal view. 426. Same, anterior view. 427. Same, posterior view. 428. Cephalothorax, ventral view. 429. Abdomen, anterior view. 430. Same, ventral view. 431. Carapace, lateral view. 432. Abdomen, lateral view.

Figs. 433–441. Brignolia kaikatty, new species, male. 433, 437. Left palp, prolateral view. 434, 438. Same, retrolateral view. 435. Left palpal bulb, prolateral view. 436. Same, retrolateral view. 439. Same, dorsal view. 440. Same, ventral view. 441. Embolus, prolateral view.