Simonoonops spiniger Platnick & Dupérré 2011, new combination

Simonoonops spiniger (Simon), new combination

Figures 182–194

Dysderina spinigera Simon, 1891: 558, figs. 2, 3 (one male and two female syntypes from Saint Vincent, no specific locality, in BMNH; examined). – Chickering, 1968: 31, figs. 76–79. [N.B.: not “ Prodysderina ” spinigera of Dumitrescu and Georgescu, 1987].

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the long, curved embolus (figs. 186–189), females by the short, wide genital atrium and the excavated anterior margin of the transverse bar connecting the genitalic apodemes (figs. 192–194).

MALE (PBI_OON 676, figs. 182–189): Total length 1.47. Posterior half of pars cephalica with pair of elongate, oval, paramedian light areas, surface reticulate except for smooth, U-shaped area at back. Chilum narrow, sharply pointed triangle. Endites with ventral process almost diamond shaped, sharply set off from remainder of endite, dorsal process narrow. Femora not darkened. Leg spination: femora: I p0-0-2, r0-2-2, II p0-0-1; tibiae I, II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2-1p, II v2-1p-2. Embolus very long, curved, abruptly narrowed, sinuous near tip; conductor with membranous tip.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 676, figs. 190–194): Total length 1.82. Chilum tiny, sharply pointed triangle. Leg spination: femora I, II p0-0-2, r0-2-2; tibiae: I v4-4-2, II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2-1p, II v2-1p-2. Atrium very wide, with posteriorly expanded posterolateral corners, with wide sclerotization occupying anterior two-thirds of length; transverse bar connecting apodemes heavily sclerotized.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: Windward Islands: Saint Vincent: no specific locality (BMNH PBI_OON 676), 1♂, 2♀ (syntypes).

DISTRIBUTION: Windward Islands (Saint Vincent); records of this species from Venezuela by Simon (1891, 1893b) and by Dumitrescu and Georgescu (1987) are all erroneous, and refer to species that do not even belong to Simonoonops.