The Andean Goblin Spiders Of The New Genera Paradysderina And Semidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Author
Platnick, Norman I.
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2011
2011-12-30
2011
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/771.1
journal article
10.1206/771.1
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Semidysderina sturmi
,
new species
Figures 861–873
TYPES: Male
holotype
and female
allotype
from montane forest litter taken at an elevation of
1600 m
at
Resinas
, 1
°
559N, 75
°
429W,
Huila
,
Colombia
(
June 8, 1956
;
H. Sturm
), deposited in MCZ (PBI_OON 37005)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Helmut Sturm, collector of the
types
.
DIAGNOSIS: Males have a small palpal bulb with a short, simple embolus (figs.14;864– 867); females have only a slight, slitlike genital atrium, and a short, separate postepigastric scutum (figs. 871–873).
MALE (PBI_OON 37005, figs. 861–867): Total length 1.26. Elevated portion of pars cephalica appears reticulate. Chilum small, wide, triangular. Sternum surface finely reticulate. Anterior ledge of paturon with slight tubercle at outer margin. Endites with ventral process relatively short, wide. Leg spination: femur I p0- 0-2; tibiae: I v4-4-0, II v4-2-0; metatarsi: I v2-2- 1p, II v2-2-0. Embolus long, narrow, distal twothirds directed obliquely; cymbium completely fused with bulb, no seam visible.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 37005, figs. 868– 873): Total length 1.47. Postepigastric scutum only around epigastric furrow. Leg spination: femur I p0-0-2; tibiae: I v4-4-1p, II v4-4-0; metatarsi: I v2-2-1p, II v2-2-0. Atrium reduced to short, wide slit, both anterior and posterior margins rebordered; anterior genitalic process widened anteriorly; apodemes long, parallel.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Three females taken with the
types
(AMNH).
DISTRIBUTION: Central
Colombia
(
Huila
).