Goloboffia Griswold & Ledford, 2001

Ferretti, Nelson E., Ríos-Tamayo, Duniesky & Goloboff, Pablo A., 2019, Four new species of Goloboffia (Mygalomorphae: Migidae) from Chile, Zootaxa 4712 (2), pp. 251-268 : 253

Genus Goloboffia Griswold & Ledford, 2001

Goloboffia Griswold & Ledford, 2001: 17 .

Species included. Goloboffia vellardi ( Zapfe, 1961) , G. biberi sp. nov., G. griswoldi sp. nov., G. megadeth sp. nov., G. pachelbeli sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Males and females are distinguished from those of other migid genera (except from Calathotarsus and Moggridgea ) by having a broad ocular area occupying from 0.40 to 0.93 of caput width. Goloboffia is distinguished from Moggridgea by the presence of spines on tarsi I–IV, females lack a dorsal excavation on tibia III and males have lobes of palpal tarsus rounded and of similar sizes. Females of Goloboffia can be distinguished from those of Calathotarsus by lacking a ventral expansion and on palpal tarsus and also by the absence of dorsal spinules on palpal tarsus. Males of Goloboffia are distinguished from those of Calathotarsus by the bent metatarsus I, absence of a digitiform projection basally on metatarsus I and by the longer embolus of the palpal bulb with an apical expansion.

Type-species. Goloboffia vellardi ( Zapfe, 1961) .

Migas vellardi Zapfe, 1961: 153 , figs 4–5.

Migas vellardi Zapfe, 1963: 126 , fig. 1.

Migas vellardi Legendre & Calderón, 1984: 1040 , plate x, figs 1–10.

Migas vellardi Goloboff & Platnick, 1987: 2 , figs 1–9, 11, 20.

Goloboffia vellardi Griswold & Ledford, 2001: 17 , figs 14A–F, 63E–F (Transferred from Migas ).

Diagnosis and description of type-species. See Zapfe (1961); Legendre & Calderón (1984) and Goloboff & Platnick (1987).

Type material. Holotype: ♂, Chile, MNHN 3637 , Región de Coquimbo (IV), Elqui, La Herradura, v.1957, H. Zapfe leg., images examined.

Additional material examined. 1 ♀, MACN-Ar 8338, Chile, Región de Coquimbo (IV), Elqui, Guanaqueros , 10.i.1984, P. Goloboff and E. Maury leg. ; 1 ♀, MACN-Ar 8339, Chile, Región de Coquimbo (IV), Elqui , Guanaque- ros, 10.i.1984, P. Goloboff and E. Maury leg. ; 4 ♀♀ and 2 juveniles, MACN-Ar 36124, Chile, Región de Coquimbo (IV), Route 5, 25 km south of Socos , 1.xi.1988, P. Goloboff, E. Maury and C. Szumik leg.

Distribution. La Herradura and Guanaqueros at Elqui province and south of Socos, Ovalle province ( Fig. 71 ).

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FIGURE 71. Known distribution of Goloboffia species in Chile.