Published August 1, 2023 | Version v1
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Opopaea deserticola Simon 1892

  • 1. School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, 819 - 0395, Japan sasaganiya 1206 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6523 - 9272 & The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, 1 - 21 - 24, Korimoto, Kagoshima-shi, Kagoshima, 890 - 0065, Japan
  • 2. Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokai University, 871 - 12 Sugido, Mashiki-machi, kamimashiki-gun, Kumamoto, 861 - 2205, Japan ryotahidakaac @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9658 - 129 X
  • 3. Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyushu University, 744, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, 819 - 0395, Japan

Description

Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1892

Fig. 5A–F

Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1892: p.560, pl. 42, fig. 5, female and male syntypes from “Insula Sancti Vincentii” = Saint Vincent Island; not examined.

See the World Spider Catalog (2023) for the complete taxonomic list.

Materials examined. Aogashima Is.: 5 females, Aogashima Village (32° 26’ 51.0756”N, 139° 45’ 35.6718”E), Tokyo, Japan, 12-VII-2019, K. Endo leg. Okinawa Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 female 1 male, Besides Naha Port Facility, Kakinohana Town (26°12’19.8”N, 127°40’04.0”E), Naha City, 26-II-2022, Y. Suzuki leg.; 1 male (NSMTAr 21912), Ōnoyama Town (26°12’11.4”N, 127°40’35.7”E), Naha City, 7-III-2021, Y. Suzuki leg.; 1 female (NSMTAr 21914), Ōgusuku (26°17’09.5”N, 127°48’13.0”E), Kita-nakagusuku Village, Nakagusuku District, 8-III-2020, Y. Suzuki leg. Aka Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 male 1 female, grassland at forest side (26°11’54.5”N, 127°16’55.7”E), Aka, Zamami Village, Shimajiri District, 16-III-2022, Y. Suzuki leg. Kita-daito Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 female, Kita-daito Village, Shimairi District, Okinawa Pref., 18-VI-2005, A. Tanikawa leg. Kume Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 male 2 females, Aka (26°21’48.8”N, 126°47’51.1”E), Kumejima Town, Shimajiri District, 2-XII-2021, Y. Suzuki leg. Miyako Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 2 males 4 females, Ueno-nobaru (24°46’05.9”N, 125°19’23.2”E), Miyakojima City, Japan, 17-XI-2021, Y. Suzuki leg. Kuroshima Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 2 females, grassland at coastal area (24°13’57.7”N, 123°59’50.4”E), Taketomi Town, Yaeyama District, 2-XI-2021, Y. Suzuki leg.; 1 male 1 female, grassland alongside bushes at coastal area (24°14’26.2”N, 123°59’32.7”E), Taketomi Town, Yaeyama District, 2-XI-2021, Y. Suzuki leg. Iriomote Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 female, Funaura, Uehara, Taketomi Town, Yaeyama District, 31-III-1989, A. Tanikawa leg. Yonaguni Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 4 females (one female: NSMT-Ar 21913), Yonaguni (24°27’00.9”N, 122°56’07.5”E), Yonaguni Town, Yaeyama District, Okinawa Pref., 15-X-2021, Y. Suzuki leg.

Diagnosis. This species resembles O. concolor (Blackwall, 1859) but can easily distinguished by the position of a dark knob marking on epigastric region: very close to epigastric furrow in O. deserticola while far away from the furrow in O. concolor (Brescovit et al. 2019).

Description. See Saaristo (2001) and Ono (2011) for detailed description.

Distribution: Southeast Asia. Introduced to USA to Panama, Caribbean, Venezuela, Brazil, Canary Is., Middle East, Japan (the Nansei Islands), Pacific Is. Also see Fig. 11 and Table 2 for details of distribution in the Nansei Islands.

Habitat. In Japan, this species was collected from litter layers of various environments, including artificial parks in urban area, grasslands and seashores.

Notes

Published as part of Suzuki, Yuya, Hidaka, Ryota & Tatsuta, Haruki, 2023, Revision of goblin spiders (Araneae: Oonopidae) in the Nansei Islands, Southwest Japan, with description of a new species, pp. 216-242 in Zootaxa 5323 (2) on pages 226-227, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5323.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/8204188

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References

  • Simon, E. (1892) On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent. Part 1. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 59, 549 - 575.
  • World Spider Catalog (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 22.5. Natural History Museum Bern. Available from: http: // wsc. nmbe. ch (accessed 30 May 2023) https: // doi. org / 10.24436 / 2
  • Brescovit, A. D., Bonaldo, A. B., Ott, R. & Chavari, J. L. (2019) To boldly go: on invasive goblin spiders in Brazil (Araneae, Oonopidae). Iheringia, Serie Zoologia, 109, 1 - 20. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / 1678 - 4766 e 2019033
  • Saaristo, M. I. (2001) Dwarf hunting spiders or Oonopidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Seychelles. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 32, 307 - 358. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631201 X 00236
  • Ono, H. (2011) Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Memoirs of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo, 47, 435 - 470. https: // doi. org / 10.2476 / asjaa. 63.37