The Andean Goblin Spiders Of The New Genera Niarchos And Scaphios (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Author
Platnick, Norman I.
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2010
2010-12-08
2010
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/727.1
journal article
10.1206/727.1
0003-0090
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Niarchos grismadoi
,
new species
Figures 679–688
TYPE: Female
holotype
taken by hand collecting from forest litter at an elevation of
855 m
at
Otongachi
, 0u199150S, 78u579060W,
Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas
,
Ecuador
(
Dec. 6, 2009
;
B. Baehr
,
Niarchos Exped.
), deposited in
QCAZ
(PBI_OON 406)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Cristian Grismado, in recognition of his many contributions to the success of the
Niarchos Expedition
and especially his dedicated sorting of the bulk collections resulting from that fieldwork.
DIAGNOSIS: Females closely resemble those of
N. matiasi
in having an enlarged but membranous anterior receptaculum that occupies most of the distance between the epigastric furrow and pedicel, but the anterior sclerotization on that receptaculum is much smaller (figs. 687, 688).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 406, figs. 679–688): Total length 1.57. Posterior eye row straight from above; PLE-PME separated by PME radius to PME diameter. Sternum surface smooth. Leg spination: tibiae: III v0-0-1p; IV v0-1p-2; metatarsi IV v0-0-
1p.
Anterior receptaculum enlarged, membranous, with small anterior sclerotization (figs. 687, 688).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the
type
locality in
Santo Domingo de Los Tsáchilas province
,
Ecuador
.