ffle Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genus Reductoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Author
Platnick, Norman I.
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History.
Author
Berniker, Lily
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History.
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American Museum Novitates
2014
2014-08-27
2014
3811
1
75
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3811.1
journal article
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10.1206/3811.1
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Reductoonops bayano
,
new species
(
figs. 279–289
)
Stenoonops canita
(misidentification):
Platnick and Dupérré, 2010a: 31
,
figs. 185–194
only (female only).
NOTE: When
Stenoonops canita
was described by
Platnick and Dupérré (2010a)
, those authors indicated that the single known female, which has six eyes, was not collected with the male
holotype
, that males and females differ in sternal morphology, and that they were tentatively matched only on the basis of geography. Subsequent study has shown that although the male
holotype
of
S. canita
has the normal complement of six spinnerets, the female has only four, and also has a bipartite anterior genitalic process closely resembling those of the Mexican six-eyed species described above. We therefore here place that female in
Reductoonops
rather than
Stenoonops
.
TYPE:
Female
holotype
from the
upper Río Majé
,
Bayano region
,
Panamá
,
Panama
(
June 18, 1976
;
L. Kirkendall
), deposited in
AMNH
(PBI_OON 21102)
.
DIAGNOSIS: ffle female resembles that of
R. chamela
,
but the anterior genitalic process is wider posteriorly than in that species (
figs. 288, 289
).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 21102,
figs. 279–289
): Total length 1.23. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica finely reticulate. Eyes six; ALE touching. Sternum without lateral channels, surface finely reticulate, microsculpture only at sides; setae densest laterally. Labium anterior margin indented at middle. Anterior genitalic projection clearly divided into longer proximal and short, rounded distal portions.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION:
Panama
(
Panamá
).