The American Goblin Spiders Of The New Genus Escaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Author
Platnick, Norman I.
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2009
2009-09-03
2009
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/679.1
journal article
10.1206/679.1
0003-0090
12776972
Escaphiella maculosa
,
new species
Figures 668–674
; map 14
TYPE
:
Female
holotype
from
Central
, 11
°
01–11
°
199S, 41
°
47–42
°
109W,
Bahia
,
Brazil
(
July 15–31, 2002
;
E. Ramos
, F. Cunha), deposited in
IBSP
(67400, PBI_OON 27754)
.
ETYMOLOGY
: The specific name refers to the spotted abdomen.
DIAGNOSIS
: Females resemble those of
E. hespera
and
E. hesperoides
in having a pair of posterior sclerotizations within the epigynal atrium (fig. 669), but can easily be distinguished from both those species by their mottled dark patterning on the abdomen (fig. 668), and from the Brazilian
E.
hesperoides
by having the posterior epigynal sclerotizations closer together (fig. 673).
MALE
: Unknown.
Figs. 626–634.
Escaphiella cidades
,
new species
, male.
626.
Left palpal femur, dorsal view.
627.
Left palp, dorsal view.
628.
Same, prolateral view.
629.
Same, ventral view.
630.
Same, retrolateral view.
631.
Cephalothorax, ventral view.
632.
Abdomen, anterior view.
633.
Same, ventral view.
634.
Epigastric region, ventral view.
Figs. 635–645.
Escaphiella cidades
,
new species
, female.
635.
Habitus, dorsal view.
636.
Same, ventral view.
637.
Carapace, dorsal view.
638.
Habitus, anterior view.
639.
Same, lateral view.
640.
Abdomen, ventral view.
641.
Carapace, lateral view.
642.
Posterior portion of abdomen, ventral view.
643.
Abdomen, anterior view.
644.
Epigynum, ventral view.
645.
Cephalothorax, ventral view.
Map 13. Records of
Escaphiella cidades
(circles) and
E. hesperoides
(stars).
FEMALE
(PBI_OON 27754): Total length 2.37. Carapace dark red-brown, surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth, sides granulate; lateral margins with blunt denticles (figs. 670, 674). Eyes ALE circular, PME squared; ALE touching, ALE-PLE touching, PME touching for less than half their length (fig. 671). Sternum dark red-brown, with radial furrows between coxae I– II, II–III, III–IV, furrow smooth, surface smooth, microsculpture absent. Chelicerae, endites, and labium dark red-brown. Abdomen ovoid; dorsum soft portions white, with striped pigmentation (figs. 668, 672); book lung covers large, ovoid; pedicel tube medium, ribbed, scutopedicel region unmodified, scutum extending far dorsal of pedicel; epigastric scutum anteriorly with scutal ridge; postepigastric scutum red-brown. PMS present (stereoscope). Legs dark red-brown. Epigynal atrium with pair of posterior sclerotizations (figs. 669, 673).
OTHER
MATERIAL
EXAMINED
: None.
DISTRIBUTION
: Known only from Bahia,
Brazil
(map 14).