Aschnaoonops masneri, Platnick & Dupérré & Berniker & Bonaldo, 2013

Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Berniker, Lily & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2013, The Goblin Spider Genera Prodysderina, Aschnaoonops, And Bidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (373), pp. 1-102 : 74

Aschnaoonops masneri , new species

Figures 484, 487–492

TYPE: Male holotype taken at an elevation of 2000 m at Santa Rosa, Me´rida, Venezuela (May 4–13, 1981; L. Masner), deposited in CNC ( PBI_OON 38125 ) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of the collector, Lubomir Masner of the CNC.

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the distally expanded embolus, with four laterally directed processes (figs. 487–492).

MALE (PBI_OON 38125, figs. 484, 487– 492): Total length 2.18. ALE separated by their radius to diameter. Sternum surface coarsely reticulate, microsculpture everywhere but front. Endites with anterior process truncate, with anterolaterally directed tip. Dorsal scutum covering full length of abdomen, no soft tissue visible from above, not fused to epigastric scutum. Postepigastric scutum long, almost rectangular, extending to nearly full length of abdomen. Leg spination: femora: I p0-0-2, r1-1- 1; II p0-0-1; tibiae: I v4-4-2; II v4-4-0; metatarsi: I v2-1p-2; II v2-0-2. Sperm pore small, narrow, slitlike. Cymbium without distal patch of setae. Distal prong of embolus with triangular basal process, complex distal processes.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela (Me´rida).

Figures

Figs. 484–495. Aschnaoonops masneri, new species, male (484, 487–492) and A. simoni, new species, female (485, 486, 493–495). 484, 485. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 486. Abdomen, ventral view. 487. Left palp, prolateral view. 488. Same, ventral view. 489. Same, retrolateral view. 490. Left embolus, prolateral view. 491. Same, ventral view. 492. Same, retrolateral view. 493, 494. Genitalia, ventral view. 495. Genitalia, dorsal view.