Scaphiella septella Chickering Figures 1117

Platnick, N. & Dupérré N., 2010, The Goblin Spider Genus Scaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (332), pp. 1-156 : 147

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scientific name	Scaphiella septella Chickering Figures 1117
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Scaphiella septella Chickering Figures 1117 View in CoL –1135; map 12

Scaphiella septella Chickering, 1968: 149 View in CoL , figs. 36– 41 (male holotype from Virgin Gorda, Virgin Islands, in MCZ; examined).

DIAGNOSIS: This species is similar to S. kalunda ; males have a longer embolus, originating more basally on the palpal bulb, with a smaller and sharper tip (figs. 1124– 1126) and distally unmodified endites; females have wider margins on the epigynal atrium (figs. 1133–1135).

MALE (PBI_OON 29554, figs. 1117–1126). Total length 1.32. Carapace with few granulations restricted to margins. Sternum smooth. Endites unmodified. Abdomen unpatterned, scuta smooth. Palpal femur greatly expanded; bulb projected ventrally at level of embolar origin; embolus originating distally on bulb, tip pointed.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 29842, figs. 1127– 1135). Total length 1.46. Epigynal atrium wide, anterolateral margins very heavily sclerotized, anterior sclerite wider anteriorly and posteriorly than in middle; apodemes short, directed posterolaterally.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: VIRGIN IS- LANDS: Virgin Gorda: no specific locality, Aug. 1966 (A. Chickering, MCZ PBI _OON 29841, 29842), 2 U (paratypes), Aug. 17–22, 1966 (A. Chickering, MCZ PBI _OON 29554), 1 - (holotype).

DISTRIBUTION: Virgin Islands ( Virgin Gorda, map 12).