Camptoscaphiella simoni Baehr, 2010

Baehr, Barbara C., Harvey, Mark S. & Smith, Helen M., 2010, A Review of the Asian Goblin Spider Genus Camptoscaphiella (Araneae: Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2010 (3697), pp. 1-66 : 18

Camptoscaphiella simoni Baehr , new species

Figures 167–169 , 336–342 ; map 4

Ischnothyreus peltifer, Simon, 1893: 299 , fig. 264 (♂), misidentification.

TYPE: Male holotype, Museum Paris AR 5730, identified as 2702 Ischnothyreus peltifer E. S. Ceylon .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Eugène Simon, who misidentified this species as Ischnothyreus peltifer (Simon, 1891) , in his paper from 1893 in which a drawing of the male palp was published.

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the ventrally greatly bulged bulb and the inverted T-shaped distal end in dorsal view (fig. 168).

MALE (PBI_OON 23343, figs. 336–342): Total length 1.41. Carapace, sternum, chelicerae, endites, and labium pale orange. Eyes all subequal; ALE-PLE separated by less than ALE radius, PME touching throughout most of their length. Chelicerae slightly divergent; Abdomen: dorsal scutum pale orange, covering more than 3 ⁄ 4 of abdomen length, more than 1 ⁄ 2 to most of abdomen width, not fused to epigastric scutum, middle surface finely reticulate, sides finely reticulate; postepigastric scutum pale orange, almost rectangular, covering about 3 ⁄ 4 of abdominal length. Legs: yellow; patella plus tibia I near as long as carapace. Palp pale orange; patella: L, 0.37; P, 0.23; C, 0.62; H, 0.13; L/ H, 2.8; bulb ventrally greatly bulged bulb and the inverted T-shaped distal end in dorsal view and broad retrolaterally directed fold (figs. 167–169, 340–342).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Sri Lanka (map 4).

Figures

FIGURES 167–172. Camptoscaphiella simoni, new species (PBI_OON

FIGURES 336–342. Camptoscaphiella simoni, new species, male (PBI_OON 23343). 336. Habitus, dorsal view. 337. Same, ventral view. 338. Same, anteriodorsal view. 339. Same, lateral view. 340. Palp, prolateral view. 341. Same, dorsal view. 342. Same, retrolateral view. Scale bars, habitus = 0.4 mm, palp = 0.2 mm.