Escaphiella blumenau, 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 : 120-123

Escaphiella blumenau , new species Figures 798–806 ; map 16

TYPE: Female holotype taken in pitfall trap in the Parque Natural Municipal ‘‘ Nascentes do Rio Garcia,’’ Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil (Jan. 23, 2005; R. Francisco), deposited in IBSP (68395, PBI_OON 27759) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females resemble those of E. cidades and E. argentina but can be distinguished by the wide, diamond-shaped epigynal atrium containing a short, oval anterior sclerite (figs. 803, 806).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_ OON 27759): Total length 1.62. Carapace pale orange, surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth, sides granulate, granulate microsculpture along surface reaching about halfway up carapace; lateral margins without denticles (figs. 800, 804). Eyes: ALE circular, PME squared; ALE separated by less than their radius, ALE-PLE touching, PME touching throughout most of their length (fig. 801). Sternum pale orange, without radial furrows between coxae I–II, II–III, III–IV, furrow smooth, surface smooth, microsculpture absent (fig. 805). Chelicerae, endites, and labium pale orange. Abdomen ovoid; dorsum soft portions white (fig. 798); book lung covers large, ovoid; pedicel tube medium, scutum extending far dorsal of pedicel; postepigastric scutum pale orange, sides smooth (fig. 802). PMS present (compound microscope). Legs pale orange. Epigynal atrium diamond-shaped, anterior sclerite short (figs. 799, 803, 806).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Santa Catarina, Brazil (map 16).

Figures

Figs. 798–806. Escaphiella blumenau, new species, female. 798. Habitus, dorsal view. 799. Same, ventral view. 800. Carapace, dorsal view. 801. Habitus, anterior view. 802. Same, lateral view. 803. Abdomen, ventral view. 804. Carapace, lateral view. 805. Cephalothorax, ventral view. 806. Epigynum, ventral view.