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.
text
American Museum Novitates
2014
2014-08-27
2014
3811
1
75
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3811.1
journal article
5857
10.1206/3811.1
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Reductoonops nubes
,
new species
(
figs. 184–188
)
TYPE: Female
holotype
from Berlese sample of litter taken in a coffee grove at an elevation of
5800 ft
at Las Nubes,
Volcán
de Tacana
,
Chiapas
,
Mexico
(
Aug. 6, 1950
;
C., M. Goodnight
), deposited in
AMNH
(PBI_OON 1447)
.
DIAGNOSIS: fflese females have two eyes (separating them from
R. chamela
,
R. armeria
, and
R. niltepec
, which have six eyes, and from
R. jabin
, which lack eyes) and anterior sternal channels (separating them from
R. real
). ffle anterior genitalic process is long and greatly narrowed anteriorly (
figs. 187, 188
).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 1469,
figs. 184–188
): Total length 1.46. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Eyes two; ALE touching. Sternum with anterior channels, surface smooth, microsculpture absent, setae densest laterally. Labium anterior margin indented at middle. Anterior genitalic projection unipartite, basally ovoid, distally narrowed.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
MEXICO
:
Chiapas
:
Cacahuatán
,
Las Nubes
,
Aug. 6, 1950
,
Berlese
, coffee area, elev.
5800 ft
(
C., M. Goodnight
,
AMNH
PBI_OON 1675),
1♀
(without abdomen, so genitalia not examined)
;
Unión Juárez
,
Aug. 11, 1950
(
C., M. Goodnight
,
AMNH
PBI_OON 1469),
1♀
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Mexico
(
Chiapas
).