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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1
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/771.1
journal article
10.1206/771.1
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Paradysderina puyo
,
new species
Figures 428–441
TYPES:
Male
holotype
and female
allotype
from tropical forest litter taken at an elevation of
800 m
at
Puyo
,
Pastaza
,
Ecuador
(
Apr. 1965
;
J., N. Leleup
), deposited in
KBIN
(PBI_OON 16669)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Males have both flanges of the embolus straight, elongated, and club shaped (figs. 432–435) and deeply excavated chelicerae (fig. 429); females resemble those of
P. zamora
but have a long anterior genitalic process (figs. 440, 441).
MALE (PBI_OON 16669, figs. 428–435): Total length 1.82. Elevated portion of pars cephalica granulate. Chilum short, wide, triangular. Anterior ledge of paturon with small tubercle situated near middle of anterior surface, inner margin deeply excavated, with dark, anteriorly directed spine. Endites with ventral process much wider, longer than dorsal process. 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. Palps symmetrical; embolus elongated, originating at about half of bulb length, both flanges long, straight, parallel, basal portion of dorsal flange closely appressed to bulb surface.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 16669, figs. 436– 441): Total length 1.54. Chilum tiny. Postepigastric scutum covering about one-third of abdomen length, fused to epigastric scutum. Leg spination: femora: I p0-0-2, II p0-0-1; tibiae I, II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I, II v2-2-0. Narrow anterior genitalic process originating from wide base occupying most of atrial width.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
Ecuador
:
Napo
:
Archidona
,
Apr. 1965
, tropical forest humus, elev.
750 m
(
J., N. Leleup
,
KBIN 16671
),
2♀
;
Parque Nacional Napo-Galeras
, 0
°
449000S, 77
°
289070W,
Nov. 27, 2009
, elev.
1005 m
(
Niarchos Exped., AMNH PBI
_OON 590),
3♀
;
Sacha Wagra Lodge
,
Río Hollín
, 0
°
579180S, 77
°
449510W,
Nov. 29, 2009
, elev.
655 m
(
Niarchos Exped., AMNH PBI
_OON 591),
2♀
.
Pastaza
:
Puyo
,
Apr. 1965
, tropical forest litter, elev.
800 m
(
J., N. Leleup
,
KBIN
PBI_OON 16670),
2♀
;
25 km
N Puyo
,
July 13, 1976
,
Berlese
, cloud forest litter, elev.
1000 m
(
S. Peck
,
FMNH
PBI_OON 578),
1♀
.
DISTRIBUTION:
Ecuador
(
Pastaza
,
Napo
).