The Goblin Spider Genus Scaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Author
Platnick, N.
Author
Dupérré N.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2010
2010-03-15
2010
332
1
156
journal article
0003-0090
Scaphiella tena
,
new species
Figures 668–687
; map 6
TYPES:
Male
holotype
and female
allotype
from a
Berlese
sample of forest litter taken at an elevation of
600 m
at a site
20 km
S of Tena
,
Napo
,
Ecuador
(
July 11, 1976
;
S. Peck
), deposited in
FMNH
(
PBI
_
OON 329
)
.
Figs. 515–523.
Scaphiella williamsi
Gertsch
, male, tarsal claws.
515.
Leg I, dorsal view.
516.
Same, distal view.
517.
Same, ventral view.
518.
Leg II, distal view.
519.
Same, prolateral view.
520.
Leg III, oblique prolateral view.
521.
Same, prolateral view.
522.
Same, retrolateral view.
523.
Leg IV, retrolateral view.
DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of
S. napo
in having a basal protrusion on the palpal bulb but have a more sinuous embolus (fig. 676) and a stronger anterior spine on the endites (fig. 669); females have a posteriorly more angular anterior epigynal sclerite (figs. 684–687).
MALE (PBI_OON 329, figs. 668–677). Total length 1.35. Carapace smooth. Sternum smooth. Endites with long, spiniform anteromedian tip. Abdomen unpatterned, scuta smooth. Palpal femur greatly enlarged; embolus long, sinuous, set basally on bulb.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 329, figs. 678–687). Total length 1.39. Endites unmodified. Epigynal atrium oval, with short, semicircular
anterior sclerite; apodemes short, dorsal extension of anterior sclerite thick, curved.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: One male taken with the
types
(FMNH).
DISTRIBUTION:
Napo
,
Ecuador
(map 6).