Escaphiella morro, Platnick & Dupérré, 2009

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, The American Goblin Spiders Of The New Genus Escaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2009 (328), pp. 1-151 : 123

Escaphiella morro , new species Figures 807–815 ; map 16

TYPE: Female holotype taken in Winkler trap in the Parque Estadual do Morro do Diabo, 22 ° 319S, 52 ° 189W, Teodoro Sampaio, São Paulo, Brazil (Mar. 24–31, 2003), deposited in IBSP (60186, PBI_OON 27746).

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females can easily be distinguished by the unusual position of the anterior epigynal sclerite, which extends anterior of the anterior epigynal margin (figs. 808, 812, 814).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 27746): Total length 1.03. Carapace pale orange, surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth, sides smooth, light granulate microsculpture present along margins; lateral margins without denticles (figs. 809, 811). Eyes: ALE circular, PME squared; ALE touching, ALE-PLE touching, PME touching throughout most of their length (fig. 810). Sternum pale orange, without radial furrows between coxae I–II, II–III, III–IV, surface smooth, microsculpture absent (fig. 813). Chelicerae, endites, and labium pale orange. Abdomen ovoid; dorsum soft portions white (fig. 807); book lung covers large, ovoid; pedicel tube short, scutum extending far dorsal of pedicel; postepigastric scutum pale orange, sides smooth (fig. 815). PMS present (compound microscope). Legs pale orange. Anterior epigynal sclerite extending anterior of epigynal margin (figs. 808, 812, 814).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: BRAZIL: Mato Grosso do Sul: Dois Irmãos do Buriti, Piraputanga, 20 ° 279S, 55 ° 309W, pitfall, June 31–July 6, 1999 (A. Brescovit, IBSP 67447, PBI_OON 27761), 1♀. São Paulo: Teodoro Sampaio, Parque Estadual do Morro do Diabo, 22 ° 319S, 52 ° 189W, Mar. 24–31, 2003 (IBSP 60188, PBI_OON 27747), 1♀.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil (map 16).

Figures

Figs. 807–815. Escaphiella morro, new species, female. 807. Habitus, dorsal view. 808. Same, ventral view. 809. Carapace, dorsal view. 810. Habitus, anterior view. 811. Carapace, lateral view. 812. Abdomen, ventral view. 813. Cephalothroax, ventral view. 814. Epigynum, ventral view. 815. Habitus, lateral view.