The Goblin Spider Genus Scaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Author
Platnick, N.
Author
Dupérré N.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2010
2010-03-15
2010
332
1
156
journal article
0003-0090
Scaphiella napo
,
new species
Figures 649–667
; map 5
TYPES:
Male
holotype
and female
allotype
from a
Berlese
sample of forest litter taken at an elevation of
250 m
at
Limoncocha
,
Napo
,
Ecuador
(
June 25, 1976
;
S. Peck
), deposited in
FMNH
(
PBI
_
OON 324
)
.
DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of
S. pich
but have a larger, more basally situated protrusion on the palpal bulb (figs. 657, 658); females have a shorter, narrower anterior epigynal sclerite (figs. 665–667).
MALE (PBI_OON 324, figs. 649–658). Total length 1.47. Carapace with granulation reaching halfway up sides of pars cephalica, reaching apex of pars thoracica. Sternum smooth. Endites with spiniform anteromedian tip. Abdomen unpatterned, scuta smooth. Palpal femur greatly enlarged; bulb with large, basal protrusion; embolus long, thin, set on basal half of bulb.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 324, figs. 659–667). Total length 1.68. Endites unmodified. Epigastric scutum with small, oval ridge just above pedicel. Epigynal atrium oval, with dark, large anterior sclerite; apodemes short.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: ECUA- DOR:
Napo
:
Limoncocha,
June 18, 1976
, Berlese,
Ficus
litter with fruits, elev.
250 m
(S. Peck, FMNH 33718, PBI_OON 10220), 1
-
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Napo
,
Ecuador
(map 5).