ffle Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genus Reductoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Author
Platnick, Norman I.
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History.
Author
Berniker, Lily
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History.
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American Museum Novitates
2014
2014-08-27
2014
3811
1
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3811.1
journal article
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10.1206/3811.1
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Reductoonops pinta
,
new species
(
figs. 543–559
)
TYPES: Male
holotype
and male
paratype
from
Pisonia
litter taken on a southern slope with dry substrate at an elevation of
380 m
on
Isla
Pinta
,
Galapagos Islands
(
Jan. 20, 1977
;
W. Reeder
), deposited in TMM (57873, PBI_OON 36961)
.
DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by having all the terminal palpal elements fused into a single structure (
figs. 556–559
), females by the hourglass-shaped anterior genitalic process (
figs. 546, 547
).
MALE (PBI_OON 36961,
figs. 543
,
548–559
): Total length 1.18. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Eyes two; ALE touching. Sternum with anterior channels, surface smooth, without pits, microsculpture absent; setae densest laterally. Labium anterior margin deeply incised. Endite tip with narrow, laterally directed lobe. Palpal apophysis, conductor, and embolus apparently fused into single structure, process on embolus still visible; cymbium completely fused with bulb, no seam visible.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 36959,
figs. 544–547
): Total length 1.69. Labium anterior margin indented at middle. Anterior genitalic process short, hourglass shaped.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: GALAPAGOS ISLANDS:
Isla
Pinta:
Jan. 19, 1977
, from dry litter and mineral soil at base of
Pisonia
, southern slope, camp area, elev.
250 m
(W. Reeder, TMM 30400, PBI_OON 36960),
1♀
,
July 18, 1977
, screened from damp
Zanthoxylum
and
Salvia
litter
2–4 cm
above ash soil, elev.
400 m
(W. Reeder, TMM 57874, PBI_OON 36959),
2♀
.
DISTRIBUTION: Galapagos Islands (
Isla
Pinta).