Reductoonops domingo, Platnick & Berniker, 2014

Platnick, Norman I. & Berniker, Lily, 2014, ffle Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genus Reductoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2014 (3811), pp. 1-75 : 68

Reductoonops domingo , new species ( figs. 398–414 )

TYPES: Male holotype, female allotype, and male paratype from Berlese sample of rainforest litter taken at an elevation of 1700 ft at a site 4 km east of Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas, Ecuador (June 22, 1975; S. Peck), deposited in FMNH (PBI_ OON 10569) .

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of R. pinta in having a greatly expanded palpal conductor, but differ in having the embolus still separate from both the conductor and the palpal apophysis ( fig. 411–414 ); females have a distinctively W-shaped tip on the anterior genitalic process ( figs. 401, 402 ).

MALE (PBI_OON 10569, figs. 403–414 ): Total length 1.09. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Eyes two; ALE touching. Sternum with anterior channels, surface finely striated, without pits, microsculpture absent; setae densest laterally. Labium anterior margin indented at middle. Endite tip with triangular lobe bearing medially directed seta. Conductor fused with palpal apophysis, embolus separate, sinuous; cymbium completely fused with bulb, no seam visible.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 10569, figs. 398–402 ): Total length 1.40. Anterior genitalic process relatively wide at base, subdistally narrowed, tip W-shaped; process set in laterally folded boatshaped structure.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: ECUADOR: Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas: 4 km SE Santo Domingo , June 8, 1976, Berlese, termite nest in rotten log, elev. 500 m (S. Peck, FMNH PBI_OON 31189), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Ecuador (Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas).

Figures

FIGURES 393–402. 393–397. Reductoonops tina, new species, male (393) and female (394–397). 398–402. R. domingo, new species, female. 393, 394, 398. Sternum, ventral view. 395, 399. Abdomen, ventral view. 396, 401. Genitalia, ventral view. 397, 402. Same, dorsal view. 400. Epigastric region, ventral view.

FIGURES 403–414. Reductoonops domingo, new species, male. 403. Sternum, ventral view. 404. Spinnerets, posterior view. 405. Labium and endites, ventral view. 406. Tip of endite, ventral view. 407. Palp, prolateral view. 408. Same, ventral view. 409. Same, retrolateral view. 410. Same, dorsal view. 411. Embolus, prolateral view. 412. Same, ventral view. 413. Same, retrolateral view. 414. Same, dorsal view.