The Goblin Spider Genera Stenoonops And Australoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), With Notes On Related Taxa
Author
Platnick N. I.
Author
Dupérré N.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2010
2010-07-21
2010
340
1
111
http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/714.1
journal article
0003-0090
Australoonops skaife
,
new species
Figures 760–763, 798–820
TYPE:
Male
holotype
taken in
Winkler
sample of leaf litter from dense bush in a strandveld/mountain fynbos ecotone at an elevation of
20 m
at
Olifantsbos
, near
Skaife Centre
,
Cape
of
Good Hope Nature Reserve
, 34
°
15.76
9
S, 18
°
23.13
9
E,
Western Cape
,
South Africa
(
Oct. 1988
;
H. Robertson
), deposited in
SAM
(PBI_OON 34248)
.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the
type
locality.
DIAGNOSIS: The elevated portion of the pars cephalica is smooth (figs. 760, 762); males have a narrow embolus with a ventrally curved tip (figs. 805–810), and females have the posterior portion of the anterior receptaculum relatively long and narrow (figs. 819, 820).
MALE (PBI_OON 34248, figs. 760, 761, 798–810): Total length 1.79. Elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Endites with long, oblique, longitudinal ridge. Embolus narrow throughout its length, with long secondary process and ventrally curved tip (figs. 805–810).
FEMALE (PBI_OON 28857, figs. 762, 763, 811–820): Total length 1.94. Posterior receptaculum short, narrower than posterior portion of anterior receptaculum, anterior projection long, narrow, abruptly expanded at tip (figs. 819, 820).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED:
South Africa
:
Eastern Cape
:
Amatola Mountains
,
Hogsback
, 32
°
36
9
17.1
0
S, 26
°
56
9
34.8
0
E,
Mar. 25–27, 2007
, leaf litter, afromontane forest (
C. Haddad
,
PPRI
PBI_OON 8943, 34256), 13,
3♀
.
Western Cape
:
Cape
of
Good Hope Nature Reserve
,
Olifantsbos
near
Skaife Centre
, 34
°
15.76
9
S, 18
°
23.13
9
E,
Oct. 1998
,
Winkler trap
, leaf litter, dense bush, strandveld/mountain fynbos ecotone, elev.
20 m
(
H. Robertson
,
SAM
PBI_OON 28906, 29044, 34129, 34140, 34147, 34150, 34171, 34177, 34182, 34196, 34248), 123,
4♀
;
Cape
of
Good Hope Nature Reserve
,
Teeberg
,
Oct. 1998
, on NE rocky slope, mesic mountain fynbos (
H. Robertson
,
SAM
PBI_OON 28857),
1♀
.
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern and
Western Cape
,
South Africa
.