Aschnaoonops tariba, Platnick & Dupérré & Berniker & Bonaldo, 2013

Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Berniker, Lily & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2013, The Goblin Spider Genera Prodysderina, Aschnaoonops, And Bidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (373), pp. 1-102 : 65-68

Aschnaoonops tariba , new species

Figures 433–443

TYPES: Male holotype and female allotype from elfin forest litter taken at an elevation of 2420 m on the Pa´ ramo El Zumbador , 40.3 km NE Ta´ riba, 7 ° 58'20"N, 72 ° 05'15"W, Ta´ chira, Venezuela (May 30, 1998; R. Anderson), deposited in AMNH ( PBI_OON 874 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the F-shaped embolus (figs. 439–441); females have a long, narrow anterior genitalic process and triangular protrusions on the transverse sclerite connecting the apodemes (fig. 443).

MALE (PBI_OON 875, figs. 433, 436– 441): Total length 2.14. ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum surface coarsely reticulate, microsculpture everywhere but front. Endites with anterior process relatively short, with anterolaterally directed tip. Dorsal scutum covering full length of abdomen, no soft tissue visible from above, fused to epigastric scutum. Postepigastric scutum long, almost rectangular, extending to nearly full length of abdomen. Leg spination: femora: I p0-0-2, r1-1-0; II p0-0-1; tibiae: I v4-4-2; II v4-4-1p; metatarsi I, II v2-2- 1p. Sperm pore small, narrow, slitlike. Cymbium without distal patch of setae. Embolus, in retrolateral view, with proximal and distal prongs parallel.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 875, figs. 434, 435, 442, 443): Total length 2.41. Dorsal scutum covering more than 3/4 of abdomen length, more than 1/2 to most of abdomen width. Postepigastric scutum almost semicircular, covering about 1/3 of abdomen length. Leg spination: femora I, II p0-0-2, r1-1-1; tibiae: I v4-4-2; II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II v3-2- 0. Anterior genitalic process long, narrow, without distal expansion, with slight, subdistal widening.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Four males and four females taken with the types (AMNH PBI_OON 875).

DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela (Ta´ chira).

Figures

Figs. 433–443. Aschnaoonops tariba, new species, male (433, 436–441) and female (434, 435, 442, 443). 433. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 434. Abdomen, ventral view. 435, 442. Genitalia, ventral view. 436. Left palp, prolateral view. 437. Same, ventral view. 438. Same, retrolateral view. 439. Left embolus, prolateral view. 440. Same, ventral view. 441. Same, retrolateral view. 443. Genitalia, dorsal view.