Heteroonops validus (Bryant) Platnick & Dupérré, 2009

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, The Goblin Spider Genus Heteroonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), With Notes on Oonops, American Museum Novitates 3649, pp. 1-72 : 45-48

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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/664.1

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scientific name

Heteroonops validus (Bryant)
status

comb. nov.

Heteroonops validus (Bryant) View in CoL , new combination

Figures 222–241 View Figs View Figs

Oonops validus Bryant, 1948: 341 , fig. 3 (male holotype from Loma Rucilla Mountains, Dominican Republic, in MCZ; examined). – Chickering, 1972: 114, figs. 22, 23.

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the anteriorly expanded palpal bulb (figs. 230– 232); females resemble those of H. vega but have an anteriorly wider longitudinal bar in the anterior receptaculum (figs. 239–241).

M A L E (PBI _OON 2 1 0 9 1, figs. 2 2 2 – 226): Total length 1.46. Endites each with one posteriorly directed projection (figs. 227– 229). Abdominal venter without pair of subcuticular dark spots just anterior of spinnerets. Leg spination: femora: III d0-0-1; IV d1-0-1; tibiae: I v3-3-0; II v0-2-2; III v0-0-1; IV v0-1-1; metatarsi: I, II v1-0-1; III v0-0-1; IV p0-0-1, v1- 0-0. Bulb as large distally as proximally, with strongly bent embolus and straight, translucent conductor (figs. 230–232).

FEMALE (PBI_OON 21091, figs. 233– 238): Total length 1.54. Palpal patella not prolaterally dilated. Abdominal venter with pair of subcuticular dark spots just anterior of spinnerets. Leg spination: femora: III d0-0-1; IV d1-0-1; tibiae: I v3-3-0; II v4-2-0; III p0-0- 1, v1-0-1; IV v1-0-1; metatarsi: I v2-2-0; II v2- 0-2; III v0-1-1; IV v1-0-1. Palpal spination: femur v0-0-1, patella p0-1-1, tibia pp1-1-2, tarsus p1-0-0, v2-0-2. Anterior receptaculum long, gradually expanded anteriorly, with transverse bar only slightly wider than longitudinal bar (figs. 239–241).

MATERIAL EXAMINED: GREATER ANTI- LLES: Hispaniola: Dominican Republic: Cordillera Central: Loma Rucilla Mountains, June 1938, elev. 5000–8000 ft (P. Darlington, MCZ PBI_OON 302), 13 (holotype). La Vega : Parque Nacional A. Bermudez, Cienaga, July 19–Aug. 2, 1995, flight intercept trap in tropical evergreen forest, elev. 1020 m (S., J. Peck, AMNH PBI_OON 21091), 33, 2♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Hispaniola.

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Heteroonops

Loc

Heteroonops validus (Bryant)

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine 2009
2009
Loc

Oonops validus

Chickering, A. M. 1972: 114
Bryant, E. B. 1948: 341
1948
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