Ponsoonops lavega, 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 lavega , new species

Figures 388–399

TYPE: Male holotype from a Berlese litter sample taken at an elevation of 1124 m at a site near Concepción de la Vega, 19.06727°N, 70.86353°W, Parque Nacional José Armando Bermúdez, La Vega, Dominican Republic (May 1–2, 2010, N. Platnick, A. Pérez-González), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 49416) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: The male resembles only those of P. yumuri in having a moderately proretrolaterally flattened embolus with an unclosed ventroprolateral folding, and an almost orthogonally bent, flat tip. It differs in having a white, unpatterned abdomen (figs. 392, 393; rather than patterned), and a well-separated conductor and embolus (figs. 396, 398; rather than a conductor basally attached to the embolus).

MALE (PBI_OON 49416, figs. 388–399): Total length 1.20. Eyes reduced, tiny, all eyes oval. Endites anteromedially with simple, stronger sclerotized protrusion, less sclerotized median part, posteromedian part with very broad triangular projection with distal setae. Abdomen white, color pattern absent. Postepigastric scutum only partly fused to epigastric scutum. Leg spination: tibiae: I v4-2-2; II v4-2-1p; IV p1-1-0, v1-0-2, r1-1-0; metatarsi: I, II v2-2-2; IV p1-1- 0, r1-1-0. Sperm pore oval. Cymbial cone not examined. Embolus proretrolaterally flattened, ventrally moderately folded, tip distinctly curved prolaterad, embolus opening covered by platelike protrusion; conductor originates well separated from embolus base, narrow, bandlike, elongated, tip sharply pointed, shorter than embolus.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Dominican Republic (La Vega).

Ungrouped species

Figures

FIGURES 388–399. Ponsoonops lavega, new species, male. 388. Habitus, dorsal view. 389. Carapace, anterior view. 390. Sternum, ventral view. 391. Mouthparts, ventral view. 392. Abdomen, anterodorsal view. 393. Same, lateral view. 394. Same, ventral view. 395. Bulb, prolateral view. 396. Same, ventral view. 397. Palp, prolateral view. 398. Same, dorsal view. 399. Same, retrolateral view.