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Reductoonops Platnick & Berniker 2014

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

Description

Reductoonops ferry, new species (figs. 290–297)

TYPE: Female holotype from moist mixed tree litter taken at a site 2 mi northwest of Ferry, St. Catherine, Jamaica (May 17, 1956; C. Hoff), deposited in MCZ (68339, PBI_OON 26442).

DIAGNOSIS: Females can be recognized by the extremely long anterior genitalic process, which is set inside a boat-shaped structure with steep sides (figs. 296, 297).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 27364, figs. 290–297): Total length 1.09. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Eyes two; ALE touching. Sternum without anterior channels, surface smooth, microsculpture absent; setae densest laterally. Labium anterior margin indented at middle. Anterior genitalic process very long, with expanded base, set in wide boat-shaped structure with steep sides.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: JAMAICA: St. Catherine: 2 mi W junction Red Hills Road and road to Spanishtown, Nov. 1957 (A. Chickering, MCZ 72297, PBI_OON 27364), 1♀.

DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica.

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 64, DOI: 10.1206/3811.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4598115

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MCZ
Event date
1956-05-17
Verbatim event date
1956-05-17
Scientific name authorship
Platnick & Berniker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Oonopidae
Genus
Reductoonops
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Reductoonops Platnick, 2014 sec. Platnick & Berniker, 2014