Pelicinus churchillae Platnick & Dupérré & Ubick & Fannes 2012, new species
- 1. Nadine Dupérré, & Ricardo Ott, & Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History.
- 2. Nadine Dupérré, & Ricardo Ott, & Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History. & Barbara C. Baehr, & Museu de Ciências Naturais, Porto Alegre, Brazil. & Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia. & Natural History Museum Bern, Switzerland.
Description
Pelicinus churchillae, new species
Figures 285–295
TYPE: Male holotype (missing abdomen) taken in pitfall trap at campsite at Javae Station, New Georgia, Solomon Islands (June 21–26, 1990; T. Churchill), deposited in QMB (S18921, PBI_OON 7209).
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of the collector, Tracey Churchill.
DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of the New Caledonian species in having granulations at the rear of the pars thoracica, but can be distinguished by the combination of having the cephalothorax orange rather than red (figs. 285–288) and the embolus basally broad, narrowing gradually from the bulb (figs. 289–295).
MALE (PBI_OON 7209, figs. 285–295): Carapace length 0.66 (abdomen missing). Carapace pale orange, elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth, sides granulate. Sternum pale orange, finely reticulate. Mouthparts pale orange, endites distally with narrow, rounded, white tip. Abdomen missing. Embolus basally broad, gradually narrowed toward bulb.
FEMALE: Unknown.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION: Solomon Islands (New Georgia).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- QMB
- Event date
- 1990-06-21
- Family
- Oonopidae
- Genus
- Pelicinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- S18921, PBI_OON 7209
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Platnick & Dupérré & Ubick & Fannes
- Species
- churchillae
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1990-06-21/26
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pelicinus churchillae Platnick, Dupérré, Ubick & Fannes, 2012