Simlops bandeirante Ott, 2014

Bonaldo, Alexandre B., Ruiz, Gustavo R. S., Brescovit, Antonio D., Santos, Adalberto J. & Ott, Ricardo, 2014, Simlops, A New Genus Of Goblin Spiders (Araneae: Oonopidae) From Northern South America, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (388), pp. 1-60 : 48-49

Simlops bandeirante Ott , new species Figures 148–155 , 282 , 304, 305

TYPE: Male holotype from Fazenda Experimental da UFAM, km 38 of Road BR174, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil (2 ° 39921.230 S 60 ° 4931.250W), Sept. 20, 2008, B. Machado ( MPEG 19157 PBI_OON 140495).

ETYMOLOGY: From Brazilian Portuguese, the bandeirantes were the participants of the Bandeiras, expeditions to Brazilian interior carried on in the 17th century to find gold and to imprison natives that would be sold as slaves. Literally, bandeirante means, ‘‘the one who carries a flag,’’ and the specific name is a reference to the flag-shaped embolus in this species.

DIAGNOSIS: Males of Simlops bandeirante resemble those of S. cristinae by the wide ejaculatory opening and by the embolar insertion displaced retrolaterally, with the distal prolateral section of bulbus angling almost 90 ° in dorsal view. Differ by the relatively small, sclerotized, but not furthermodified conductor and by the flattened, flagshaped embolus (figs. 304, 305).

MALE (PBI_ONN_40495, figs. 148–155, 282, 304, 305): Total length 2.04. Carapace orange-brown, sternum pale orange, chelicerae, endites, and labium orange-brown; legs yellow, without color pattern; abdomen soft portions pale orange; abdominal scuta pale orange. Sternal microsculpture restricted to sternum middle area between coxae II and III and occupying almost entire area between coxae III and IV. Endites with stout, similarly sized retrolateral and prolateral processes, median process conspicuous (fig. 282). Postepigastric scutum almost rectangular, covering about 2/3 of abdominal length. Palp: embolus laterally flattened, with a ventral bilobed sclerotized expansion and large ejaculatory opening, abruptly narrowed toward pointed tip; conductor short and heavy

sclerotized, sinuous, inserted at embolus base (figs. 153–155, 304, 305).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

Figures

Figs. 148–155. Simlops bandeirante, male. 148. Cephalothorax, dorsal view. 149. Same, anterior view. 150. Same, ventral view. 151. Lateral view. 152. Abdomen, ventral view. 153. Left palp, prolateral view. 154. Same, dorsal view. 155. Same, retrolateral view.

Figs. 275–282. Simlops species, left male endite, ventral view. 275. S. pennai. 276. S. miudo. 277. S. machadoi. 278. S. similis. 279. S. juruti. 280. S. nadinae. 281. S. campinarana. 282. S. bandeirante.

Figs. 304–307. Simlops species, apex of left male palp. 304. S. bandeirante, dorsal view. 305. S. bandeirante, prolateral view. 306. S. cristinae, dorsal view. 307. S. cristinae, prolateral view.