Got Males?: The Enigmatic Goblin Spider Genus Triaeris (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Author
Platnick, Norman I.
Author
Dupérré, Nadine
Author
Ubick, Darrell
Author
Fannes, Wouter
text
American Museum Novitates
2012
2012-09-14
2012
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3756.2
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Triaeris menchum
,
new species
Figures 61–67
TYPE: Female
holotype
taken in a forest at an elevation of
2150 m
at
Lake Oku
,
6°12′N
,
10°27′E
,
Menchum Division
,
North-West Province
,
Cameroon
(
Feb. 7–13, 1992
;
C. Griswold
,
S. Larcher
,
N. Scharff
,
C. Wanzie
), deposited in
CAS
(PBI_OON 3486)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Females can be recognized by the leaf-shaped sclerotizations at the sides of the posterior receptaculum (figs. 66, 67).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 3486, figs. 61–67): Total length 2.29. Carapace pale orange, sides finely reticulate. Eyes subequal, ALE separated by more than their diameter; posterior eye row procurved from front. Sternum, mouthparts pale orange. Dorsal scutum pale orange, covering less than half of abdomen length, less than 1/4 of abdomen width. Postepigastric scutum pale orange, without posteriorly directed lateral apodemes. Legs pale orange, without color pattern. Leg spination: patella I v0-1p-1r; tibiae: I v2-4-0; II v1r-1r-0; IV v0-0-2. Genital atrium represented only as narrow slit; posterior receptaculum globular, with leaf-shaped lateral sclerotizations.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: One female with the same data as the holotype, “beneath rocks and logs” (
CAS
PBI_OON 3482). DISTRIBUTION:
Cameroon
.