Brignolia suthep, 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 : 103

Brignolia suthep , new species Figures 631–640

TYPE: Female holotype taken in an evergreen hill forest at an elevation of 1180 m at Doi Suthep, Doi Suthep-Pui National Park, Chiang Mai Dist., Chiang Mai Prov., Thailand (Feb. 17, 1995; P. Schwendinger), deposited in MHNG (PBI_OON 12145) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females can be recognized by the bridge-shaped thickening near the posterior spiracular groove and by the short, bellshaped posterior tube (figs. 639, 640).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 12145, figs. 631– 640): Total length 2.04. Carapace pale orange, without any pattern; pars cephalica slightly elevated; posterolateral edge with pair of pits, posterior declivity without distinct shoulders, posterior margin rounded. Sternum covered with small round pits. Scuto-pedicel region with W-shaped scutal ridge slightly weakened near midline, without tubercles. Postepigastric area deeply excavat- ed anterior to thickened, W-shaped transverse ridge; posterior tube short, bell-shaped.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Thailand: Chiang Mai Prov.: Chiang Mai Dist.: Doi Suthep, Mar. 30, 1987, pitfall, elev. 1180 m (P. Schwendinger, MHNG PBI_OON 12697), 1 U.

DISTRIBUTION: Thailand.

Figures

Figs. 631–640. Brignolia suthep, new species, female. 631. Carapace, dorsal view. 632. Same, anterior view. 633. Same, posterior view. 634. Cephalothorax, ventral view. 635. Abdomen, anterior view. 636. Same, ventral view. 637. Carapace, lateral view. 638. Abdomen, lateral view. 639. Genitalia, ventral view. 640. Same, dorsal view.