Simlops guatopo Brescovit, 2014

Bonaldo, Alexandre B., Ruiz, Gustavo R. S., Brescovit, Antonio D., Santos, Adalberto J. & Ott, Ricardo, 2014, Simlops, A New Genus Of Goblin Spiders (Araneae: Oonopidae) From Northern South America, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (388), pp. 1-60 : 58

Simlops guatopo Brescovit , new species Figures 267–274 , 289 , 318, 319

TYPE: Male holotype from Agua Blanca, Parque Nacional Guatopo, 35 km N Altagracia, Miranda, Venezuela (400m, 10 ° 119300 N 66 ° 299450W), May 31, 1987, S., J. Peck, ( AMNH PBI_OON 17).

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males of Simlops guatopo differ from those of S. bodanus and S. guyanensis by the partially sclerotized conductor, with complex basal sclerotizations (figs. 318, 319).

MALE (PBI_OON 17, figs. 267–274, 289, 318, 319): Total length 1.91. Carapace dark red-brown, sternum and mouthparts orange-brown, legs pale orange, without color pattern; abdomen soft portions pale white, abdominal scuta orange-brown. Sternal microsculpture covering almost entire surface, absent in front of coxae. Endites with retrolateral process small, thin, triangular, with tip slightly bent prolaterally; prolateral projection stout, flattened, slightly folded retrolaterally; median process not protruded (fig. 289). Postepigastric scutum almost semicircular, covering about 3/4 of abdominal length. Palp: embolus slender and sinuous, as long as 3/4 of cymbium length; conductor filiform, bearing a stout, pointed subbasal prolateral process and a basal needlelike process, originating at the bulbus, adjacent to embolar insertion (figs. 272–274, 318, 319).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.

Figures

Figs. 267–274. Simlops guatopo, male. 267. Cephalothorax, dorsal view. 268. Same, anterior view. 269. Same, ventral view. 270. Lateral view. 271. Abdomen, ventral view. 272. Left palp, prolateral view. 273. Same, dorsal view. 274. Same, retrolateral view.

Figs. 283–289. Simlops species, left male endite, ventral view. 283. S. cristinae. 284. S. jamesbondi. 285. S. cachorro. 286. S. platnicki. 287. S. bodanus. 288. S. guyanensis. 289. S. guatopo.

Figs. 314–319. Simlops species, apex of left male palp. 314. S. bodanus, dorsal view. 315. S. bodanus, prolateral view. 316. S. guyanensis, dorsal view. 317. S. guyanensis, prolateral view. 318. S. guatopo, dorsal view. 319. S. guatopo, prolateral view.