Brignolia bengal, 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 : 89-92

Brignolia bengal , new species

Figures 525–548

TYPE: Male holotype taken by sifting in forest at an elevation of 1200 m on a S slope at Mahanadi , near Kurseong, Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India (Oct. 6, 1978; C. Besuchet, I. Löbl), deposited in MHNG (PBI_OON 15501) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the sinuous, ridged tip of the palpal bulb (figs. 533, 535, 537, 539).

MALE (PBI_OON 15501, figs. 525–548): Total length 2.14. Carapace orange-brown, with dark brown egg-shaped patches behind eyes; pars cephalica strongly elevated in lateral view; posterolateral edge with pair of pits, posterior declivity with distinct shoulders, each with four tubercles of which first and third most lateral are enlarged, posterior margin squared, with pair of lateral thickenings. Sternum covered with small round pits. Scuto-pedicel region with deeply W-shaped scutal ridge, with enlarged tubercle on each side reaching to pedicel triangle. Distal portion of palpal bulb with ridged, translucent dorsal lobe.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: One male taken with the holotype (MHNG PBI_OON 12728).

DISTRIBUTION: West Bengal, India.

Figures

Figs. 525–532. Brignolia bengal, new species, male. 525. Carapace, dorsal view. 526. Same, anterior view. 527. Same, posterior view. 528. Cephalothorax, ventral view. 529. Abdomen, anterior view. 530. Same, ventral view. 531. Carapace, lateral view. 532. Abdomen, lateral view.

Figs. 533–540. Brignolia bengal, new species, male. 533, 537. Left palp, prolateral view. 534, 538. Same, retrolateral view. 535. Left palpal bulb, prolateral view. 536. Same, retrolateral view. 539. Left palpal bulb, dorsal view. 540. Same, ventral view.

Figs. 541–548. Brignolia bengal, new species, male. 541. Left palpal bulb, dorsal view. 542. Same, ventral view. 543. Labium and endites, ventral view. 544. Tip of endite, ventral view. 545. Carapace, posterior view. 546. Posterior margin of carapace, dorsal view. 547. Abdomen, anterior view. 548. Pedicel tube, ventral view.