Simlops, A New Genus Of Goblin Spiders (Araneae: Oonopidae) From Northern South America
Author
Bonaldo, Alexandre B.
Author
Ruiz, Gustavo R. S.
Author
Brescovit, Antonio D.
Author
Santos, Adalberto J.
Author
Ott, Ricardo
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2014
2014-05-14
2014
388
1
60
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/829.1
journal article
10.1206/829.1
0003-0090
5379422
Simlops guatopo
Brescovit
,
new species
Figures 267–274
,
289
,
318, 319
TYPE: Male
holotype
from Agua Blanca, Parque Nacional Guatopo,
35 km
N Altagracia,
Miranda
,
Venezuela
(
400m
, 10
°
119300
N 66
°
299450W),
May 31, 1987
, S., J. Peck, (
AMNH
PBI_OON 17).
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a name in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males of
Simlops guatopo
differ from those of
S. bodanus
and
S. guyanensis
by the partially sclerotized conductor, with complex basal sclerotizations (figs. 318, 319).
MALE (PBI_OON 17, figs. 267–274, 289, 318, 319): Total length 1.91. Carapace dark red-brown, sternum and mouthparts orange-brown, legs pale orange, without color pattern; abdomen soft portions pale white, abdominal scuta orange-brown. Sternal microsculpture covering almost entire surface, absent in front of coxae. Endites with retrolateral process small, thin, triangular, with tip slightly bent prolaterally; prolateral projection stout, flattened, slightly folded retrolaterally; median process not protruded (fig. 289). Postepigastric scutum almost semicircular, covering about 3/4 of abdominal length. Palp: embolus slender and sinuous, as long as 3/4 of cymbium length; conductor filiform, bearing a stout, pointed subbasal prolateral process and a basal needlelike process, originating at the bulbus, adjacent to embolar insertion (figs. 272–274, 318, 319).
FEMALE: Unknown.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the
type
locality.