Brignolia mapha, Platnick & Dupérré, 2011

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2011, The Goblin Spider Genus Brignolia (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (349), pp. 1-131 : 94-103

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/771.1
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D562FB7D-124C-FFA1-71B6-FA640F9DFD89
treatment provided by	Tatiana
scientific name	Brignolia mapha
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Brignolia mapha View in CoL , new species

Figures 621–630 View Figs

TYPE: Female holotype taken at an elevation of 830 m at Pang Mapha , km 133.2 on road from Pai to Mae Hong Song, Chiang Mai Prov., Thailand (Oct. 13, 1995; P. Schwendinger), deposited in MHNG (PBI_OON 12620) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females resemble those of B. cardamom from southern India but have concave, rather than convex, sides on the triangular anterior extension originating from the posterior spiracular groove (figs. 629, 630).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 12620, figs. 621– 630): Total length 1.87. Carapace pale orange, without any pattern; pars cephalica slightly elevated in lateral view; posterolateral edge with pair of pits, posterior declivity without distinct shoulders, posterior margin rounded. Sternum covered with small round pits. Scuto-pedicel region with W-shaped scutal ridge almost straight, with weak, secondary, more dorsally situated ridge, without tubercles. Postepigastric region with

anteriorly directed, triangular, bipartite extension originating near posterior spiracular groove; posterior tube wide.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Thailand: Chiang Mai Prov.: Pai Dist.: Pang Mapha, km 133.2 on road from Pai to Mae Hong Song, Oct. 13, 1995, elev. 830 m (P. Schwendinger, MHNG PBI_OON 12620), 1 U. Mae Hong Song Prov.: Tom Lok, 8 km N Mae Lang, Nov. 11–13, 1985, elev. 700 m (D. Burckhardt, I. Löbl, MHNG PBI_OON 12136), 2 U.

DISTRIBUTION: Thailand.