Ponsoonops hamus, 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 hamus , new species

Figures 127–141

NOTE: Males and females have not been collected together, show some somatic differences (e.g., carapace color), and may be mismatched.

TYPES: Male holotype and one male paratype from a Berlese sample from forest litter on limestone taken at a site 2.5 mi south of Belmopan, Cayo, Belize (Aug. 4, 1972, S. and J. Peck), deposited in FMNH (PBI_OON 38345) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a Latin noun referring to the hook-shaped appendage at the embolus tip.

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of P. samadam in having a simple, tubelike embolus (fig. 136). They differ in having a basally diverging conductor and embolus (fig. 134, 136; rather than parallel), and a hooklike projection at the embolus tip (fig. 137; rather than a platelike

Figures

FIGURES 127–141. Ponsoonops hamus, new species, male (127–137) and female (138–141). 127. Habitus, dorsal view. 128. Carapace, lateral view. 129. Same, anterior view. 130. Sternum, ventral view. 131. Abdomen, lateral view. 132. Same, ventral view. 133. Palp, prolateral view.134. Same, dorsal view. 135. Same, retrolateral view. 136. Embolus and conductor, dorsal view. 137. Embolus tip, prolateral view. 138. Genitalia, dorsal view. 139. Carapace, dorsal view. 140. Abdomen, dorsal view. 141. Same, ventral view.