Neoxyphinus saarineni Moss & Bonaldo

Moss, Daniella F., Feitosa, Níthomas M., Bonaldo, Alexandre B. & Ruiz, Gustavo R. S., 2016, Description of eleven new species of the goblin spider genus Neoxyphinus Birabén, 1953 (Araneae, Oonopidae), Zootaxa 4098 (1), pp. 95-133 : 111

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.1.4
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6086946
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scientific name	Neoxyphinus saarineni Moss & Bonaldo
status	sp. nov.

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Neoxyphinus saarineni Moss & Bonaldo View in CoL , sp. nov.

Figs 12 View FIGURES 3 – 12 , 99–107 View FIGURES 99 – 107 ; Map 2

Type material: Holotype: male from Las Melenis, Irapa, Mariño, Sucre, Venezuela (10°41’N, 62°37’W), leaf litter, 800 m, 10 May 1993, J. Lattke leg. ( CAS, PBI _OON 2622).

Etymology. The specific name is a patronym honoring the architect Eero Saarinen, who projected the Gateway Arch, in St. Louis, USA, and refers to the resemblance of the shape of the sternal transversal ridge in this species with the outline of that monument.

Diagnosis. The male of N. saarineni sp. nov. is distinguished from those of all other species of the genus by the lack of leg spines and by the modified sternum, with three pairs of marginal elevations, the middle one connected by a single transversal raised arched ridge ( Fig. 102 View FIGURES 99 – 107 ).

Description. Male (holotype): total length 2.28. Cephalothorax: carapace dark red-brown, broadly oval, pars cephalica slightly elevated, posterolateral surface without spikes, surfaces and sides smooth, lateral margin without denticles. Clypeus margin slightly reborded, straight in frontal view, high ( Fig. 104 View FIGURES 99 – 107 ). Sternum wider than long, dark red-brown, surface smooth, with posterior hump and one pair of elevations near coxae II, III and IV ( Fig. 102 View FIGURES 99 – 107 ), elevation in coxae III connected by a single transversally raised arched ridge (median ridge) ( Fig. 102 View FIGURES 99 – 107 ); Chelicerae, endites and labium dark red-brown ( Fig. 102 View FIGURES 99 – 107 ). Abdomen: book lung covers large and ovoid. Dorsal scutum dark red-brown, middle surface smooth and sides finely reticulate, anterior half without projecting denticles ( Fig. 103 View FIGURES 99 – 107 ). Epigastric and postepigastric scutum dark red-brown. Legs: orange-brown ( Fig. 99 View FIGURES 99 – 107 ). Genitalia: epigastric region with sperm pore small and oval. Palp proximal articles, cymbium and bulb pale orange ( Fig. 105 View FIGURES 99 – 107 ). Embolus with prolateral prong ( Fig. 107 View FIGURES 99 – 107 ), apical projection short and thick ( Figs 105–107 View FIGURES 99 – 107 ).