Stenoonops tortola, 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 : 63

Stenoonops tortola , new species Figures 460–481

TYPE: Male holotype from Little Thatch Island (situated just off the west end of Tortola), Virgin Islands (Aug. 16, 1965; Island Project staff), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 1821) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from one of the localities.

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of S. saintjohn but have a differently shaped, prolateral process situated proximally of a triangular retrolateral process (figs. 467– 472); females have a longer anterior genitalic projection originating on a less rectangular base (figs. 480, 481).

MALE (PBI_OON 1821, figs. 460–472): Total length 1.25. Elevated portion of pars cephalica finely reticulate; posterior eye row straight from above, procurved from front. Endites with medially directed anterolateral projection. Embolus with dorsal process directed retrolaterally (figs. 467–472).

FEMALE (PBI_OON 1799, figs. 473–481): Total length 1.60. Anterior genitalic projection originating from oval base (figs. 480, 481).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: VIRGIN ISLANDS: Tortola : Green Cay, Aug. 14, 1965 (Island Project staff, AMNH PBI_OON 1801), 1♀ ; Sandy Spit , Aug. 14, 1965 (Island Project staff, AMNH PBI_OON 1799), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Virgin Islands ( Tortola and Little Thatch islands).