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Reductoonops real Platnick & Berniker 2014, new species

  • 1. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History.

Description

Reductoonops real, new species (figs. 161–183)

TYPE: Male holotype from El Real, Chiapas, Mexico (July 3, 1950; C., M. Goodnight), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 1432).

DIAGNOSIS: Members of this species resemble those of the majority of species in having only two eyes, but show no trace of the anterior sternal channels found in most of those species (figs. 163, 176, 177). The male palp shows the typically sinuous embolus, but the embolus tip bears only a single projection (best seen in dorsal view, fig. 175), rather than the group of projections found in other species. The female anterior genitalic process is of the typically unipartite form, but is shorter and more ovoid than in other species (figs. 182, 183).

MALE (PBI_OON 1432, figs. 161–176): Total length 1.22. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Eyes two; ALE touching. Sternum without anterior channels, surface smooth, without pits, microsculpture absent; setae densest laterally. Labium anterior margin indented at middle. Endite tip with slight lobe, laterally protruding, anteromedially directed macroseta. Embolus sinuous, tip with single spur; cymbium fused with bulb but with clearly defined seam between.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 1467, figs. 177–183): Total length 0.98. Anterior genitalic projection relatively short, unipartite, torpedo shaped.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: MEXICO: Chiapas: 5 mi NE Chiapa, 16°45′N, 92°58′W, Aug. 26, 1966, hillside (J., W. Ivie, AMNH PBI_OON 1467), 2♀; Ruinas de Palenque, Apr. 3, 1974 (C. Alteri, AMNH PBI_OON 1466), 1♀; Plateau 6 mi S Tuxtla Gutiérrez, 16°42′N, 93°07′W, Aug. 21, 1966 (J., W. Ivie, AMNH PBI_OON 1468), 3♀.

DISTRIBUTION: Mexico (Chiapas).

Notes

Published as part of Platnick, Norman I. & Berniker, Lily, 2014, ffle Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genus Reductoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 1-75 in American Museum Novitates 2014 (3811) on page 13, DOI: 10.1206/3811.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4598115

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Event date
1950-07-03 , 1966-08-21 , 1966-08-26 , 1974-04-03
Verbatim event date
1950-07-03 , 1966-08-21 , 1966-08-26 , 1974-04-03
Scientific name authorship
Platnick & Berniker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Oonopidae
Genus
Reductoonops
Species
real
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Reductoonops real Platnick & Berniker, 2014