Aschnaoonops tachira, Platnick & Dupérré & Berniker & Bonaldo, 2013

Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Berniker, Lily & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2013, The Goblin Spider Genera Prodysderina, Aschnaoonops, And Bidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (373), pp. 1-102 : 65

Aschnaoonops tachira , new species

Figures 422–432

TYPE: Male holotype taken from shrub litter at an elevation of 2910 m at the Pa´ ramo La Negra , 15 km southeast of Pueblo Hondo, 8 ° 14'50"N, 71 ° 52'31"W, Ta´ chira, Venezuela (May 27, 1998; R. Anderson), deposited in AMNH ( PBI_OON 872 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the shape of multiple embolar projections (figs. 428–430). The females here assigned to the species have not been collected together with males, and may be mismatched; they resemble those of A. chorro but have a differently shaped extension on the anterior genitalic process and a sinuous anterior margin of the sclerite at the base of that process (figs. 431, 432).

MALE (PBI_OON 872, figs. 422, 425– 430): Total length 2.31. ALE separated by their radius to diameter. Sternum surface coarsely reticulate, microsculpture everywhere but front. Endites with tip of anterior process directed anterolaterally. Dorsal scutum covering full length of abdomen, no soft tissue visible from above, not fused to epigastric scutum. Postepigastric scutum long, almost rectangular, extending to nearly full length of abdomen. Leg spination: femora: I p0-0-2, r0-1-1; II p0-0-2; tibiae: I v4-4-2; II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2-1p; II v2- 0-2. Sperm pore small, narrow, slitlike. Cymbium without distal patch of setae. Distal prong of embolus with three processes.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 38041, figs. 423, 424, 431, 432): Total length 3.12. Dorsal scutum covering more than 3/4 of abdomen length, more than 1/2 to most of abdomen width. Postepigastric scutum almost semicircular, covering about 1/3 of abdomen length. Leg spination: femora I, II p0-0-2; r1-1-1; tibiae I, II v4-4-2; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II v3-0- 2. Anterior genitalic process with spadeshaped anterior extension, sclerite at base with medially invaginated anterior margin.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Venezuela: Ta´chira : Pa´ ramo El Zumbador, 40.3 km NE Ta´ riba, 7 ° 58'20"N, 72 ° 05'15"W, May 30, 1998, elfin forest litter, elev. 2420 m (R. Anderson, AMNH PBI _ OON 876 ), 1♀ ; Pa´ramo La Negra , 15 km SE Pueblo Hondo, 8 ° 14'50"N, 71 ° 52'31"W, May 27, 1998, shrub litter, elev. 2910 m (R. Anderson, AMNH PBI _ OON 873 ), 1♂ ; 55 km N San Cristo´ bal, May 18–22, 1974, elev. 10,000 ft (S. Peck, AMNH _ PBI 38041), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela (Ta´ chira).

Figures

Figs. 422–432. Aschnaoonops tachira, new species, male (422, 425–430) and female (423, 424, 431, 432). 422. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 423. Abdomen, ventral view. 424, 431. Genitalia, ventral view. 425. Left palp, prolateral view. 426. Same, ventral view. 427. Same, retrolateral view. 428. Left embolus, prolateral view. 429. Same, ventral view. 430. Same, retrolateral view. 432. Genitalia, dorsal view.