The Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genera Ponsoonops and Bipoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Author
Bolzern, Angelo
text
American Museum Novitates
2014
2014-05-22
2014
3803
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3803.1
journal article
10.1206/3803.1
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Ponsoonops lerida
,
new species
Figures 214–258
NOTE: Even though male and female are from the same sample, the match is uncertain because males of
P. boquete
were also taken at the same locality and time.
TYPE:
Male
holotype
from a
Berlese
sample of forest floor litter taken at an elevation of
2377 m
at
Finca Lérida
near
Boquete
,
Chiriquí
,
Panama
(
Mar. 17, 1959
,
H. Dybas
), deposited in
FMNH
(PBI_OON 49187)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of
P. boquete
,
P. panto
, and
P. vuena
in having an embolus with a median protrusion, and a narrowed, distinctly elongated embolus tip (figs. 219, 223). They differ in having a distally truncated conductor, which is shorter than the embolus (rather than with short narrow projections in
P. panto
,
pointed and longer than embolus in
P. boquete
and
P. vuena
). In addition, they differ from
P. panto
in having a mound-shaped median protrusion at the embolus (rather than a ridge-shaped one). Females differ in having a quite broad, enlarged anterior genitalic process (figs. 227, 228, 241), and a subspherical, moderately sclerotized posterior genitalic process with a distinct short duct (figs. 227, 228, 243).
MALE (PBI_OON 49187, figs. 214–223): Total length 1.51. Dorsal scutum very weakly sclerotized. Leg spination: tibiae: I v4-2-2; II v4-2-1p; IV v0-0-2; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II p1-0-0, v2-2-2; IV p0-1-0. Sperm pore oval. Cymbial cone not detected. Tarsal organ on palpal cymbium with distal receptor appearing bifid. Embolus broad, tube shaped, longitudinally folded, with ventral slit and distoprolateral opening, midway with dorsal hump, tip narrowed, elongated, opening distoretrolaterally rebordered, platelike; conductor originates at embolus base, narrow, bandlike, elongated, distally truncated, almost as long as embolus.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 49187, figs. 224–258): Total length 1.71. Leg spination: tibiae: I p1-1-0, v4-2-2, r1-0-0; II p0-1-0, v4-2-2; IV p0-1-0, v1-0-2, r0-1-0; metatarsi: I, II p1-0-0, v2-2-2; IV p0-1-0. Large genital plate W-shaped, median protruding part wider than long; anterior genitalic process narrowly stalked, apex enlarged; posterior genitalic process subspherical with short duct, weakly sclerotized, distally with spoon-shaped glands (fig. 243).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
PANAMA
:
Chiriquí
:
same as
holotype
(
H. Dybas
,
FMNH
PBI_OON 49187),
2♀
,
Finca Lérida
near
Boquete
, “Barca Area,”
Mar. 14, 1959
,
Berlese
, litter, chips at base of cut stump, elev.
1722 m
(
H.S. Dybas
,
FMNH 56539
PBI_OON 10761),
2♀
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Panama
(
Chiriquí
).