Brignolia palawan, 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 : 108-110

Brignolia palawan , new species

Figures 681–690

TYPE: Female holotype from Puerco Island, Palawan, Philippines (Mar. 1994; T. Jacoud), deposited in MHNG (PBI_OON 12544) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females resemble those of B. dasysterna , but have the posterior tube straighter and followed posteriorly by a transverse ridge situated anteriorly of the posterior spiracular groove (figs. 689, 690)

MALE: Unknown

FEMALE (PBI_OON 12544, figs. 681– 690): Total length 1.46. Carapace pale orange, without any pattern; pars cephalica slightly elevated in lateral view; posterolateral edge with pair of pits, posterior declivity without shoulders, posterior margin round- ed, with pair of lateral sclerotizations. Sternum without pits. Scuto-pedicel region with W-shaped scutal ridge almost straight, without tubercles but with secondary, more

dorsally situated ridge. Postepigstric region semicircular posterior ridge situated anterior of posterior spiracular groove; posterior tube long, basally twisted.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Philippine Islands.

Figures

Figs. 681–690. Brignolia palawan, new species, female. 681. Carapace, dorsal view. 682. Same, anterior view. 683. Same, posterior view. 684. Cephalothorax, ventral view. 685. Abdomen, anterior view. 686. Same, ventral view. 687. Carapace, lateral view. 688. Abdomen, lateral view. 689. Genitalia, ventral view. 690. Same, dorsal view.