Escaphiella colima, Platnick & Dupérré, 2009

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, The American Goblin Spiders Of The New Genus Escaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2009 (328), pp. 1-151 : 43-44

Escaphiella colima , new species Figures 223–239 ; map 4

TYPE: Male holotype taken 12 mi E Manzanillo, 19 ° 019N, 104 ° 109W, Colima, Mexico (May 11, 1963; W. Gertsch, W. Ivie), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 36883) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of E. acapulco but have much less extensive microsculpture on the carapace (fig. 228) and a much less strongly produced embolar base (fig. 233, 234).

MALE (PBI_OON 36883): Total length 1.28 (figs. 223, 224, 227). Carapace pale orange, surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth, sides granulate; lateral margins with blunt denticles (figs. 228, 229). Eyes: ALE circular, PME squared; ALE touching, ALE-PLE touching, PME touching throughout most of their length, PLE-PME touching (fig. 226). Sternum pale orange, without radial furrows between coxae I–II, II–III, III–IV, surface smooth, microsculpture absent (fig. 225). Chelicerae, endites, and labium pale orange. Abdomen ovoid; book lung covers large, ovoid (fig. 239); pedicel tube medium, ribbed (fig. 230), scutum extending far dorsal of pedicel; dorsal scutum pale orange, covering more than 3/4 of abdomen, no soft tissue visible from above, middle surface smooth, sides smooth; postepigastric scutum pale orange, sides smooth. PMS present as a single median projection (light microscope). Legs pale orange. Right palp consistently different from left palp, slightly less robust (figs. 231–238), proximal segments pale orange; embolus dark; femur normal size; cymbium and bulb pale orange.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: One male taken with the holotype (AMNH PBI_OON 36883).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Colima, Mexico (map 4).

Figures

Figs. 223–230. Escaphiella colima, new species, male. 223. Habitus, dorsal view. 224. Same, ventral view. 225. Cephalothorax, ventral view. 226. Habitus, anterior view. 227. Same, lateral view. 228. Carapace, dorsal view. 229. Same, lateral view. 230. Abdomen, ventral view.

Figs. 231–239. Escaphiella colima, new species, male. 231. Left palp, dorsal view. 232. Same, prolateral view. 233. Same, ventral view. 234. Same, retrolateral view. 235. Right palp, dorsal view. 236. Same, prolateral view. 237. Same, ventral view. 238. Same, retrolateral view. 239. Epigastric region, ventral view.