Australoonops skaife, Platnick N. I. & Dupérré N., 2010

Platnick N. I. & Dupérré N., 2010, The Goblin Spider Genera Stenoonops And Australoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), With Notes On Related Taxa, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (340), pp. 1-111 : 105

Australoonops skaife , new species Figures 760–763, 798–820

TYPE: Male holotype taken in Winkler sample of leaf litter from dense bush in a strandveld/mountain fynbos ecotone at an elevation of 20 m at Olifantsbos , near Skaife Centre, Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, 34 ° 15.76 9 S, 18 ° 23.13 9 E, Western Cape, South Africa (Oct. 1988; H. Robertson), deposited in SAM (PBI_OON 34248) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: The elevated portion of the pars cephalica is smooth (figs. 760, 762); males have a narrow embolus with a ventrally curved tip (figs. 805–810), and females have the posterior portion of the anterior receptaculum relatively long and narrow (figs. 819, 820).

MALE (PBI_OON 34248, figs. 760, 761, 798–810): Total length 1.79. Elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Endites with long, oblique, longitudinal ridge. Embolus narrow throughout its length, with long secondary process and ventrally curved tip (figs. 805–810).

FEMALE (PBI_OON 28857, figs. 762, 763, 811–820): Total length 1.94. Posterior receptaculum short, narrower than posterior portion of anterior receptaculum, anterior projection long, narrow, abruptly expanded at tip (figs. 819, 820).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: South Africa: Eastern Cape: Amatola Mountains, Hogsback, 32 ° 36 9 17.1 0 S, 26 ° 56 9 34.8 0 E, Mar. 25–27, 2007, leaf litter, afromontane forest (C. Haddad, PPRI PBI_OON 8943, 34256), 13, 3♀. Western Cape: Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve , Olifantsbos near Skaife Centre , 34 ° 15.76 9 S, 18 ° 23.13 9 E, Oct. 1998, Winkler trap, leaf litter, dense bush, strandveld/mountain fynbos ecotone, elev. 20 m (H. Robertson, SAM PBI_OON 28906, 29044, 34129, 34140, 34147, 34150, 34171, 34177, 34182, 34196, 34248), 123, 4♀ ; Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, Teeberg , Oct. 1998, on NE rocky slope, mesic mountain fynbos (H. Robertson, SAM PBI_OON 28857), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa.