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
0003-0082
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Ponsoonops tacana
,
new species
Figures 85–96
TYPE:
Male
holotype
from a cloud-forest litter sample taken at an elevation of
1800 m
on the lower slope of
Volcán Tacaná
, ca.
4 km
north of
Unión Juárez
,
Chiapas
,
Mexico
(
Sep. 18, 1992
,
R. Anderson
), deposited in
AMNH
(PBI_OON 49417)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: The male resembles those of
P. duenas
and
P. bilzi
in having a distinctly enlarged conductor, broader and longer than the embolus. It differs from
P. duenas
in having a lamelliform, flat conductor (figs. 92, 93; rather than with a distinct, median rim), and differs from
P. bilzi
in having a straight, distally ragged conductor (rather than moderately spiral, distally truncated).
MALE (PBI_OON 49417, figs. 85–96): Total length 1.53. Eyes moderately reduced. Dorsum with indistinct, dark netlike pattern. Distal margin of dorsal scutum rounded. Leg spination: tibiae: I v4-2-2; II v4-2-1p; metatarsi: I p1-0-0, v2-2-2; II v2-2-2. Sperm pore oval. Cymbial cone not detected. Bulb subspherical. Embolus moderately flattened, tube-shaped, longitudinally ribbed, tip irregularly shaped, partly ragged; conductor proximally fused to embolus, distally separated, broad, lamelliform, elongated, with ragged distal end (probably some parts broken off), longer than embolus.
FEMALE: Unknown.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION:
Mexico
(
Chiapas
).