Heteroonops renebarbai Duperre, 2020
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.964.51554 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/803999F5-7C2D-4CE6-9C83-6264977AA215 |
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Heteroonops renebarbai Duperre |
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sp. nov. |
Heteroonops renebarbai Duperre sp. nov. Figs 19 View Figures 19, 20 , 20 View Figures 19, 20 , 38 View Figures 34–39 , 40 View Figure 40
Type material.
Male holotype from Dominican Republic, Hato Mayor Province, Occidental, San Rafael de Yuma, los Haitises National Park, outside Cueva La Arena, 19.08013N, 69.4649W, 17m, 12.vi.2012, team CarBio (NMNH, USNMENT 01747005).
Etymology.
The specific epithet is a noun in apposition honoring local arachnologist and CarBio collaborator René Barba.
Diagnosis.
Males are distinguished from most species by their elongated, thin embolus (Fig. 19 View Figures 19, 20 ); from H. vega by their long and pointed conductor (Fig. 20 View Figures 19, 20 ), flat and with denticles in the later ( Platnick and Dupérré 2009, fig. 194).
Description.
Male (holotype): Total length: 1.34; carapace length: 0.71; carapace width: 0.59. Cephalothorax: Carapace ovoid; shiny, light yellow; pars cephalica flat. Sternum light yellow; longer than wide; covered entirely with long dark setae. Endites light yellow with an elongated apical backward-pointing projection with rounded tip (Fig. 38 View Figures 34–39 ); labium light yellow. Clypeus vertical; short (1/2 × radius of ALE). Chelicerae yellow; promargin and retromargin without teeth; fangs normal, 1/3 length of chelicerae. Eyes: Six eyes surrounded by black pigmentation; ALE largest, oval; PME squared; PLE smallest, oval; ALE separated by their radius; ALE-PLE touching; PLE-PME touching; PME touching. Abdomen: Oval; light beige covered dorsally with long dark setae; epigastric and postepigastric scuta light yellow, not well sclerotized. Legs: Light yellow; tibia I with two pairs of ventral spines, metatarsus I with one pair of ventral spines; leg formula undertermined, legs II-III-IV missing. Genitalia: Palpal segments light yellow; palpal bulb whitish. Palpal femur, patella and tibia with spines prolaterally (Fig. 19 View Figures 19, 20 ). Palpal bulb ovoid (Fig. 19 View Figures 19, 20 ); embolus well sclerotized, long and thin; conductor long and pointed, initiating at base of embolus (Figs 19 View Figures 19, 20 , 20 View Figures 19, 20 ).
Female: Unknown.
Other material examined.
None.
Distribution.
Dominican Republic, Hato Mayor Province (Fig. 40 View Figure 40 ).
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