Ponsoonops yumuri, Bolzern, 2014

Bolzern, Angelo, 2014, The Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genera Ponsoonops and Bipoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2014 (3803), pp. 1-1 : 1-

Ponsoonops yumuri , new species

Figures 373–387

TYPES: Male holotype and female paratype taken at a site near the pier at Rio Yumurí, 20.30027°N, 74.29361°W, Guantánamo, Cuba (May 12, 2010, N. Platnick, A. Pérez, A. Sánchez, G. Alayón), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 49213) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: The male resembles only those of P. lavega in having a moderately flattened embolus with an unclosed ventroprolateral folding, and an almost orthogonally bent, flat tip. It differs in having a patterned abdomen (fig. 375; rather than white, without any pattern), and the conductor basally attached to the embolus (figs. 377, 380; rather than well-separated conductor and embolus). Female differs from other members of the genus by the relatively shortstalked anterior genitalic process with only few but distinct glands at its base, and the moderately shorter, weakly sclerotized posterior genitalic process (fig. 387).

MALE (PBI_OON 49213, figs. 373–381): Total length 1.07. Eyes reduced, tiny, all eyes oval; PME touching for less than half their length. Endites anteromedially with simple, stronger sclerotized protrusions, less-sclerotized median part, posteromedian part with very broad triangular projection with distal setae. Leg spination: tibiae: I v4-2-2; II v4-2-1p; IV p1-1-0, v0-0- 2, r1-1-0; metatarsi: I, II v2-2-2; IV p0-1-0, r1-1-0. Sperm pore oval. Embolus proretrolaterally flattened, ventrally moderately folded, tip distinctly curved prolaterad, longitudinally ripped, embolus opening covered by platelike protrusion; conductor originates at embolus base, narrow, lamelliform, elongated, median of retrolateral margin with two fragile spikes, distally flat, enlarged, shorter than embolus.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 49213, figs. 382–387): Total length 1.31. Sternum posteriorly with dark spot (artificially?). Leg spination: tibiae: I p1-1-0, v4-2-2, r1-0-0; II p0-1-0, v4-2-2; III p0-1-0,

Figures

FIGURES 373–387. Ponsoonops yumuri, new species, male (373–381) and female (382–387). 373. Carapace, dorsal view. 374. Sternum, ventral view. 375. Abdomen, dorsal view. 376. Same, ventral view. 377. Embolus and conductor, dorsal view. 378. Embolus tip, prolateral view. 379. Palp, prolateral view. 380. Same, dorsal view. 381. Same, retrolateral view. 382. Habitus, dorsal view. 383. Carapace, anterior view. 384. Sternum, ventral view. 385. Abdomen, lateral view. 386. Same, ventral view. 387. Genitalia, dorsal view.