Brignolia jog, 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 : 82-83

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/771.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D562FB7D-1240-FF95-738F-FA750C78FAE0

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Tatiana

scientific name

Brignolia jog
status

sp. nov.

Brignolia jog View in CoL , new species Figures 498–514 View Figs View Figs

TYPE: Male holotype from Jog Falls, 14u149N, 74u509E, Karnataka, India (Jan. 20–22, 1990; V., B. Roth), deposited in CAS (38455, PBI_OON 2448) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the multilayered tip of the palpal bulb (figs. 506, 508, 514).

MALE (PBI_OON 2448, figs. 498–514): 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 shoulder with five tubercles in two irregular rows, posterior margin squared, sides with small diamond-shaped thickenings. Sternum covered with small round pits. Scuto-pedicel 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 long, distally sinuous.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Karnataka, India.

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Brignolia

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