Opopaea deserticola Simon,891, 1891

Tang, Jiaxin, Liang, Wei, Shi, Haitao, Gao, Caixia, Li, Shuqiang & Zheng, Guo, 2021, A checklist of spiders from Yongxing Island, South China Sea, with taxonomic notes on four species of goblin spiders, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 67087-67087 : 67087

Opopaea deserticola Simon,891

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Shuqinag Li; individualCount: 3; sex: 1 male, 2 females; lifeStage: adults; Taxon : scientificName: Opopaea deserticola Simon ,1891; kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Arachnida ; order: Araneae ; family: Oonopidae ; genus: Opopaea ; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location : country: China; countryCode: CHN; stateProvince: Hainan; county: Yongxing ; decimalLatitude: 16.833; decimalLongitude: 112.333; Identification : identifiedBy: Jiaixn Tang ; identificationReferences: Saaristo , 2001; Event : year: 2008; month: 1; day: 13-19

Description

Male. Measurements (in mm): Body length 1.45; carapace 0.65 length, 0.60 width; abdomen 0.90 length, 0.70 width. Leg measurements: I 2.14 (0.62, 0.37, 0.54, 0.40, 0.21), II 1.56 (0.54, 0.27, 0.33, 0.25, 0.17), III 1.98 (0.64, 0.30, 0.43, 0.35, 0.26), IV 1.84 (0.58, 0.26, 0.35, 0.40, 0.25). Leg formula: 1> 3> 4> 2.

Cephalothorax. Sides of carapace yellowish-brown; dorsally deep yellow; scutum yellow; chelicerae, sternum, legs and ventral scutum yellow. Sides of carapace with finely longitudinal striae; dorsal area smooth with some mesially pointing hairs at lateral edges. Eyes rather large, PLE relatively smaller; compactly arranged, ALE slightly separated, touching posterior lateral eyes; posterior eyes in slightly recurved row, touching each other Fig. 6 A and C). Base of fang without ornaments. Labium wider than long, endites with pointed tip (Fig. 6 B).

Legs. Leg I: femur smooth, with some hairs; patella with a ventral seta; tibia with distinct hairs, a row of ventral setae and 2-3 trichobothria; tarsus with distinct strong setae. Leg II, III and IV similar to leg I, except femur II with a ventral setae.

Abdomen. Dorsal scutum oval-shaped, covering nearly entirely abdominal length. Lobes on anterolateral corners of petiolar tube distinct, ridges developed, forming a scutal cove.

Male palp (Fig. 7 A and B). Patella of palp significantly larger than cymbiobulbus; cymbiobulbus with two protrusions at middle and a curving extension to the end.

Female. As in male, except as noted. Measurements (in mm): Body length 1.65-1.70; carapace 0.70-0.74 length, 0.60-0.65 width; abdomen 1.00-1.30 length, 0.70-0.80 width. Leg measurements: I 2.00 (0.60, 0.30, 0.45, 0.40, 0.25), II 1.80 (0.60, 0.25, 0.40, 0.35, 0.20), III 1.70 (0.50, 0.25, 0.35, 0.40, 0.20), IV 2.15 (0.65, 0.30, 0.50, 0.45, 0.25).

Epigynum. Postgynal depression of epigastric area shallow; parmula black (Fig. 6 D and E).

Distribution

Brazil, Caribbean, China (new record), Germany, Japan, Middle East, Pacific Is., Philippines, Spain, USA to Panama, Venezuela.

Figures

Figure 6. Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1893. A. Carapace of male, dorsal view; B. Same, ventral view; C. Same, lateral view; D. Ventral scutum of female, ventral view; E. Genital area of female, dorsal view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.

Figure 7. Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1893. male. A Left male palp in prolateral view; B. Left male palp in retrolateral view, arrow ① points at the curving extension. Scale bar: 0.1 mm.