A Review of the Asian Goblin Spider Genus Camptoscaphiella (Araneae: Oonopidae)
Author
Baehr, Barbara C.
Author
Harvey, Mark S.
Author
Smith, Helen M.
text
American Museum Novitates
2010
2010-10-01
2010
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/667.1
journal article
10.1206/667.1
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Camptoscaphiella taplejung
Baehr
,
new species
Figures 188–189
,
343–352
; map 5
TYPE:
Female
holotype
, from
Nepal
,
Taplejung District
, ridge
Lasse Dhara
and pasture
Lassetham
NW of Yamputhin
,
3000 m
,
27°29′ N
, 87°51′ °E (
6–7 Sep 1983
,
J. Martens
,
B. Daams
), deposited in
SMF
(PBI_OON 15760)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the district of the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Females can be separated from all other species by epigastric area with a large, almost square median plate and a small thornlike anterior sclerite close to epigastric fold and a long, narrow sinuous copulatory duct with broadened tip reaching far beyond posterior groove.
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 15760, figs. 343–352): Total length 1.79. Carapace yellow-brown, lateral margin undulate. Eyes: ALE 0.090; PME 0.079; PLE 0.085, ALE largest, ALE circular, PME squared, PLE oval; posterior eye row procurved from both above and front; ALE-PLE touching, PME touching throughout most of their length, PLE-PME touching. Sternum chelicerae, endites, and labium yellow. Abdomen oval, dorsal scutum yellow-brown, covering
1
⁄
2
to
3
⁄
4
of abdomen, more than
1
⁄
2
to most of abdomen width, not fused to epigastric scutum. Epigastric and postepigastric scutum yellow-brown, widely hexagonal, only around epigastric furrow. Legs: femur I with 2 prolateral spines. Epigastric area with large, almost square median plate and thornlike anterior sclerite; copulatory duct long, narrow, sinuous with broad tip reaching far beyond posterior groove (figs. 188–189, 352).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION: East
Nepal
south of the Kanchenjunga massif (map 5).