Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1892

Suzuki, Yuya, Hidaka, Ryota & Tatsuta, Haruki, 2023, Revision of goblin spiders (Araneae: Oonopidae) in the Nansei Islands, Southwest Japan, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5323 (2), pp. 216-242 : 226-227

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5323.2.3

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8204151

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scientific name

Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1892
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Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1892 View in CoL View at ENA

Fig. 5A–F View FIGURE 5

Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1892: p.560 View in CoL , pl. 42, fig. 5, female and male syntypes from “Insula Sancti Vincentii” = Saint Vincent Island; not examined.

See the World Spider Catalog (2023) for the complete taxonomic list.

Materials examined. Aogashima Is.: 5 females, Aogashima Village (32° 26’ 51.0756”N, 139° 45’ 35.6718”E), Tokyo , Japan, 12-VII-2019, K. Endo leg GoogleMaps . Okinawa Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 female 1 male, Besides Naha Port Facility, Kakinohana Town (26°12’19.8”N, 127°40’04.0”E), Naha City , 26-II-2022, Y. Suzuki leg. GoogleMaps ; 1 male (NSMTAr 21912), Ōnoyama Town (26°12’11.4”N, 127°40’35.7”E), Naha City , 7-III-2021, Y. Suzuki leg. GoogleMaps ; 1 female (NSMTAr 21914), Ōgusuku (26°17’09.5”N, 127°48’13.0”E), Kita-nakagusuku Village, Nakagusuku District , 8-III-2020, Y. Suzuki leg. Aka Is. (Okinawa Pref.) GoogleMaps : 1 male 1 female, grassland at forest side (26°11’54.5”N, 127°16’55.7”E), Aka, Zamami Village, Shimajiri District , 16-III-2022, Y. Suzuki leg. GoogleMaps Kita-daito Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 female, Kita-daito Village, Shimairi District , Okinawa Pref., 18-VI-2005, A. Tanikawa leg. GoogleMaps Kume Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 male 2 females, Aka (26°21’48.8”N, 126°47’51.1”E), Kumejima Town, Shimajiri District , 2-XII-2021, Y. Suzuki leg. GoogleMaps Miyako Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 2 males 4 females, Ueno-nobaru (24°46’05.9”N, 125°19’23.2”E), Miyakojima City , Japan, 17-XI-2021, Y. Suzuki leg. GoogleMaps Kuroshima Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 2 females, grassland at coastal area (24°13’57.7”N, 123°59’50.4”E), Taketomi Town, Yaeyama District , 2-XI-2021, Y. Suzuki leg. GoogleMaps ; 1 male 1 female, grassland alongside bushes at coastal area (24°14’26.2”N, 123°59’32.7”E), Taketomi Town, Yaeyama District , 2-XI-2021, Y. Suzuki leg. GoogleMaps Iriomote Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 female, Funaura, Uehara, Taketomi Town , Yaeyama District , 31-III-1989, A. Tanikawa leg. GoogleMaps Yonaguni Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 4 females (one female: NSMT-Ar 21913), Yonaguni (24°27’00.9”N, 122°56’07.5”E), Yonaguni Town, Yaeyama District , Okinawa Pref., 15-X-2021, Y. Suzuki leg. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. This species resembles O. concolor (Blackwall, 1859) but can easily distinguished by the position of a dark knob marking on epigastric region: very close to epigastric furrow in O. deserticola while far away from the furrow in O. concolor ( Brescovit et al. 2019) .

Description. See Saaristo (2001) and Ono (2011) for detailed description.

Distribution: Southeast Asia. Introduced to USA to Panama, Caribbean, Venezuela, Brazil, Canary Is., Middle East, Japan (the Nansei Islands), Pacific Is. Also see Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 and Table 2 View TABLE 2 for details of distribution in the Nansei Islands.

Habitat. In Japan, this species was collected from litter layers of various environments, including artificial parks in urban area, grasslands and seashores.

Brescovit, A. D., Bonaldo, A. B., Ott, R. & Chavari, J. L. (2019) To boldly go: on invasive goblin spiders in Brazil (Araneae, Oonopidae). Iheringia, Serie Zoologia, 109, 1 - 20. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / 1678 - 4766 e 2019033

Ono, H. (2011) Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Memoirs of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo, 47, 435 - 470. https: // doi. org / 10.2476 / asjaa. 63.37

Saaristo, M. I. (2001) Dwarf hunting spiders or Oonopidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Seychelles. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 32, 307 - 358. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631201 X 00236

Simon, E. (1892) On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent. Part 1. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 59, 549 - 575.

World Spider Catalog (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. Available from: http: // wsc. nmbe. ch (accessed 30 May 2023) https: // doi. org / 10.24436 / 2

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FIGURE 5. Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1891 (A–C male: NSMT-Ar 21912 from Okinawa Island and D–F female: NSMT-Ar 21913 from Yonaguni Island) and Opopaea syarakui (Komatsu, 1967) (G–K male: FB, per. coll., from Izena Island and L–P female: NSMT-Ar 21915 from Kumamoto Prefecture).A, D, G, L Habitus, dorsal view. B Prosoma, lateral view. H, M Habitus, lateral view. I, N Habitus, ventral view. C, J Left palp, retrolateral view. E, O Epigastric region, ventral view. F, K, P Abdomen, frontal view. Abbreviations: cb—cymbiobulbus, fm—femur, pt—patella, pds—pedicel tube dorsolateral spikes, psr—paired scutuml ridges. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A, D, G–I, L–N); 0.25 mm (B, F, K, O, P); 0.1 mm (C, E, J).

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FIGURE 11. Geographic localities of the Nansei Islands examined in this study.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Opopaea