Brignolia kodaik, 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 : 79-80

Brignolia kodaik , new species Figures 470–497

TYPE: Male holotype and female allotype from native cloud forest by falls at Kadaikanal, 10u159N, 77u319E, Tamil Nadu, India (Jan. 2, 1990; V., B. Roth), deposited in CAS (38443, PBI_OON 35302) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: This species is similar to B. nilgiri but males can be distinguished by the more sinuous and distally longer dorsal margin of the palpal bulb (figs. 478, 480, 483, 485) and females lack the triangular epigastric extension on the posterior spiracular groove (figs. 496. 497).

MALE (PBI_OON 35302, figs. 470–487): Total length 2.06. Carapace orange-brown, with dark brown egg-shaped patches behind eyes; pars cephalica strongly elevated in lateral view; posterolateral edge without pits, posterior declivity with distinct shoulders, posterior margin squared. Sternum covered with small round pits, with produced posterior ridge but ridge without tubercles. Scutopedicel region with W-shaped scutal ridge, very deep but so weak near midline as to appear like two V-shaped ridges, without tubercles, but sclerotization weakened abruptly at width of pedicel triangles. Palpal bulb short, laterally flattened, with rounded dorsal tip.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 35302, figs. 488– 497): Total length 2.13. Postepigastric area

with inverted T-shaped sclerite; posterior tube squiggled.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: One female taken with the types.

DISTRIBUTION: Tamil Nadu, India.

Figures

Figs. 470–477. Brignolia kodaik, new species, male. 470. Carapace, dorsal view. 471. Same, anterior view. 472. Same, posterior view. 473. Cephalothorax, ventral view. 474. Abdomen, anterior view. 475. Same, ventral view. 476. Carapace, lateral view. 477. Abdomen, lateral view.

Figs. 478–481. Brignolia kodaik, new species, male. 478. Left palp, prolateral view. 479. Same, retrolateral view. 480. Left palpal bulb, prolateral view. 481. Same, retrolateral view.

Figs. 482–487. Brignolia kodaik, new species, male. 482. Endite, ventral view. 483. Left palp, prolateral view. 484. Same, retrolateral view. 485. Left palpal bulb, prolateral view. 486. Same, dorsal view. 487. Same, ventral view.

Figs. 488–497. Brignolia kodaik, new species, female. 488. Carapace, dorsal view. 489. Same, anterior view. 490. Same, posterior view. 491. Cephalothorax, ventral view. 492. Abdomen, anterior view. 493. Same, ventral view. 494. Carapace, lateral view. 495. Abdomen, lateral view. 496. Genitalia, ventral view. 497. Same, dorsal view.