Hortoonops portoricensis (Petrunkevitch) Platnick & Berniker & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012

Platnick, Norman I., Berniker, Lily & Kranz-Baltensperger, Yvonne, 2012, The Caribbean Goblin Spider Genera Scaphioides and Hortoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2012 (3751), pp. 1-64 : 61

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/3759.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:752AA48E-CA22-473C-B785-945E8BD97392

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DE4FC765-8A40-FF89-FE9E-37F29A9EBB90

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Carolina

scientific name

Hortoonops portoricensis (Petrunkevitch)
status

comb. nov.

Hortoonops portoricensis (Petrunkevitch) View in CoL , new combination

Figures 401–417 View FIGS View FIGS

Stenoonops portoricensis Petrunkevitch, 1929: 72 , figs. 61–63 (male holotype from Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, in AMNH; examined).– Chickering, 1969a: 7, figs. 14–18 (first description of female).

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the prolateral spur near the tip of the embolus (figs. 408, 409), females by the basally widened anterior genitalic projection (figs. 416, 417).

MALE (PBI_OON 372, figs. 401–409): Total length 1.48. Carapace and sternum not scanned. Dorsum of abdomen with patches of dark pigment visible through cuticle. Embolus with short, spiniform prolateral process situated near tip of longer, distally curled retrolateral process.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 379, figs. 410–417): Total length 1.80. Anterior genitalic projection long, narrow, posterior portion with triangular median receptaculum extending posterior of procurved rim.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: WEST INDIES: Puerto Rico: Private Reserve Natural El Tallonal, Dominguito Ward, Arecibo Mun. , Aug. 2008, leaf litter (S. Castillo, AMNH PBI_OON 379), 1♀ ; Ranger Station, Guanica Dry Forest , 17.971472°N, 66.867958°W, July 19–22, 2011 (I. Agnarsson et al., USNM 392858, PBI_OON 43635), 1♀ GoogleMaps ; Toa Alta, sifting ( AMNH PBI_OON 372), 1♂ (holotype) ; University Farm, N of campus, Mayagüez, Jan. 25, 1964 (A. Chickering, MCZ 68342, PBI_OON 27171), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Puerto Rico.

Hortoonops excavatus , new species

Figures 418–425 View FIGS

TYPES: Male holotype and female allotype from forest litter taken at an elevation of 800 m at the Salto Jimenoa, 7 km SE of Jarabacoa, La Vega, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola (July 31, 1995; S., J. Peck), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 21094) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name refers to the excavations on the anterior metatarsi.

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the C-shaped tip of the embolus (figs. 419, 421), females by the basally narrow anterior genitalic projection (figs. 424, 425). The distinct abdominal pattern found in the male (fig. 418) is not detectable in the female taken with it (fig. 420). MALE (PBI_OON 21094, figs. 418, 419, 421, 422): Total length 1.38. Carapace and sternum not scanned. Abdomen with strong dark pigment patches visible through cuticle on dorsum, sides, venter. Embolus with distal portion C-shaped.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 21094, figs. 420, 423–425): Total length 1.51. Abdomen with no pigment patches visible through cuticle. Dorsal view: anterior genitalic projection very long, narrow, situated on very short base.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Hispaniola ( Dominican Republic).

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Hortoonops

Loc

Hortoonops portoricensis (Petrunkevitch)

Platnick, Norman I., Berniker, Lily & Kranz-Baltensperger, Yvonne 2012
2012
Loc

Stenoonops portoricensis

Chickering, A. M. 1969: 7
Petrunkevitch, A. 1929: 72
1929
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