Aschnaoonops marta, 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 : 58-61

Aschnaoonops marta , new species

Figures 390–399

TYPE: Male holotype taken from epiphytic bromeliads or leaf litter at an elevation of 960 m at San Pedro , Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia (May 19, 1975; J. Kochalka), deposited in AMNH ( PBI_OON 37106 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of A. pedro but have a subdistally wider embolus. The two known males show differences between the right and left sides; the right bulb is much less inflated than the left (figs. 394–399), and there are slight but consistent differences in the shapes of the right and left emboli as well.

MALE (PBI_OON 37106, figs. 390–399): Total length 2.06. ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum surface coarsely reticulate, microsculpture everywhere but front. Endites with anterior process long, narrow. 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, r1-1-1; II p0-0- 2, r0-1-0; tibiae: I v4-4-2; II v3-4-1p; metatarsi: I v3-2-0; II v2-1r-0. Sperm pore large, narrow, slitlike. Cymbium with distal patch of setae. Embolus arrow shaped in lateral view, right bulb much less inflated than left bulb.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Colombia: Magdalena: near San Pedro de la Sierra, northwestern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Aug. 16, 1985, under bark and rocks, elev. 500–1000 m (H.-G. Mu¨ ller, MHNG PBI_ OON 15708), 1♂.

DISTRIBUTION: Colombia (Magdalena).

Figures

Figs. 390–399. Aschnaoonops marta, new species, male. 390. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 391. Right embolus, ventral view. 392. Same, prolateral view. 393. Same, retrolateral view. 394. Left palp, prolateral view. 395. Same, ventral view. 396. Same, retrolateral view. 397. Right palp, prolateral view. 398. Same, ventral view. 399. Same, retrolateral view.