Reductoonops tandapi Platnick & Berniker 2014, new species

Reductoonops tandapi, new species (figs. 353–372)

TYPES: Male holotype and male paratype sorted by hand from cloud forest litter taken at an elevation of 2150 m at a site 21 km north of Tandapi, on the main road from Tandapi to Quito, 00°27′20.3″S, 77°45′15.5″W, Pichincha, Ecuador (Dec. 7, 2009; N. Dupérré, E. Tapia, Niarchos Exped.), deposited in QCAZ (PBI_OON 51317), plus male paratype, same data, deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 49613).

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the shape of the palpal apophysis, which in ventral view is moderately wide at its base and for about two-thirds of its length, with a narrowed distal portion (fig. 364–367); females have the anterior genitalic process wider at the tip than at its middle, placed in a relatively wide, shallow boat-shaped structure, but lack lateral expansions on the tip of the anterior genitalic process (figs. 371, 372). Compared to the sympatric species R. pichincha, these animals have much larger eyes (figs. 353, 354, 370), and more widespread sternal setae (figs. 368, 369).

MALE (PBI_OON 51317, figs. 353–368): Total length 1.17. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Eyes two; ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum with anterior channels, surface smooth, without pits, microsculpture absent; setae evenly scattered. Labium anterior margin indented at middle. Endites with anterolateral edge enlarged, rounded. Palpal apophysis moderately wide for two-thirds its length, then abruptly narrowed distally; cymbium not fused with bulb.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 51318, figs. 369–372): Total length 1.19. Anterior genitalic process wider at tip than at middle but tip without lateral expansions, process placed in relatively wide, shallow boat-shaped structure.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: ECUADOR: Pichincha: 15 km E Tandapi, June 7, 1976, Berlese, moss, forest litter, elev. 2300 m (S. Peck, FMNH PBI_OON 10565), 1♂, 2♀; 21 km N Tandapi, on main road from Tandapi to Quito, 00°27′20.3″S, 77°45′15.5″W, Dec. 7, 2009, Berlese, cloud forest litter, elev. 2150 m (N. Dupérré, E. Tapia, Niarchos Exped., AMNH PBI _OON 51318), 1♂, 2♀.

DISTRIBUTION: Ecuador (Pichincha).