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Paradysderina pira Platnick & Dupérré 2011, new species

Description

Paradysderina pira, new species Figures 635–642

TYPE: Male holotype from Río Pira and Apaporis, 0 ° 259S, 70 ° 159W, Amazonas, Colombia (Feb. 7–16, 1989; V., B. Roth), deposited in CAS (PBI_OON 2737).

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by their extraordinarily Scaphiella -like palp, with a long, narrow, simple, and evenly curved embolus (figs. 639–642).

MALE (PBI_OON 2737, figs. 635–642): Total length 1.32. Elevated portion of pars cephalica appears reticulate. Chilum tiny, triangular. Inner margin of paturon weakly excavated. Endites with dorsal process wider, longer than ventral process. Leg spination: femur I p0-0-1; tibiae: I v4-4-0, II v4-2-0; metatarsi: I v2-2-1p, II v2-2-0. Palps symmetrical; embolus Scaphiella -like, long, narrow, distally sinuous.

FEMALE: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Colombia (Amazonas).

Notes

Published as part of Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2011, The Andean Goblin Spiders Of The New Genera Paradysderina And Semidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 1-121 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (364) on page 87, DOI: 10.1206/771.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10114211

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CAS
Event date
1989-02-07
Verbatim event date
1989-02-07/16
Scientific name authorship
Platnick & Dupérré
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Oonopidae
Genus
Paradysderina
Species
pira
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Paradysderina pira Platnick & Dupérré, 2011