Heteroonops constanza Duperre, 2020

Duperre, Nadine, Francisco, Charlotte, Santana-Propper, Ella, Agnarsson, Ingi & Binford, Greta J., 2020, Heteroonops (Araneae, Oonopidae) spiders from Hispaniola: the discovery of ten new species, ZooKeys 964, pp. 1-30 : 1

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.964.51554

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C1FAE1A8-EA65-4320-8419-A24E63086580

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scientific name

Heteroonops constanza Duperre
status

sp. nov.

Heteroonops constanza Duperre sp. nov. Figs 30-33 View Figures 30–33 , 39 View Figures 34–39 , 40 View Figure 40

Type material.

Male holotype from Dominican Republic, La Vega Province, Constanza, Valle Nuevo National Park, 'Jurassic Park’, 18.688N, 70.596W, 2100 m, 26.vi.2012, team CarBio (NMNH, USNMENT 01747013). Two female paratypes (USNMENT 01747014), same data.

Etymology.

The specific name is noun in apposition taken from the type locality, Constanza Province, Dominican Republic.

Diagnosis.

Both males and females closely resemble H. castelloides Platnick & Dupérré, 2009; males are distinguished by the narrow, elongated palpal bulb and palpal tibia 2 × longer than patellae (Fig. 30 View Figures 30–33 ), ovoid in the later species, and palpal tibia 1.5 × longer than patellae ( Platnick and Dupérré 2009, fig. 242); females are distinguished by their anterior recepetaculum with four branches (Fig. 33 View Figures 30–33 ), five in H. castelloides ( Platnick and Dupérré 2009, fig. 259).

Description.

Male (holotype): Total length: 1.79; carapace length: 0.86; carapace width: 0.72. Cephalothorax: Carapace ovoid; shiny, pale yellow; pars cephalica slightly elevated. Sternum pale yellow; longer than wide; covered entirely with long dark setae. Endites pale yellow, with small apical projection (Fig. 39 View Figures 34–39 ); labium light yellow. Clypeus sligthly protruding; 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 rounded; PLE smallest, oval; ALE separated by their radius; ALE-PLE touching; PLE-PME touching; PME touching. Abdomen: Oval; beige covered dorsally with long setae; epigastric and postepigastric scuta inconspicuous. Legs: Legs missing. Genitalia: Palpal segments pale yellow; palpal bulb whitish. Palpal femora, tibia and tarsus with spines prolaterally (Fig. 30 View Figures 30–33 ). Palpal bulb elongated (Fig. 30 View Figures 30–33 ); embolus strongly bent, pointed apically; conductor long and thin reaching the tip of the embolus (Fig. 31 View Figures 30–33 ).

Female (paratype): Total length: 2.09; carapace length: 0.85; carapace width: 0.72. Cephalothorax: Carapace ovoid; shiny, yellow; pars cephalica flat. Sternum and labium light yellow. Chelicerae and endites light yellow, not modified. Eyes: as in male. Abdomen: Oval, light beige; epigastric and postepigastric scuta pale yellow, not well sclerotized (Fig. 32 View Figures 30–33 ). Legs: Legs missing; all palpal segments with strong spines. Genitalia: Epigynal region not protruding, with tree-shaped structures slightly visible through the epigastric scutum (Fig. 32 View Figures 30–33 ). Internal genitalia with anterior receptaculum elongated with four main branches; posterior receptaculum triangular well sclerotized; wing-like projections elongated and narrow (Fig. 33 View Figures 30–33 ).

Other material examined.

None.

Distribution.

Dominican Republic, La Vega Province (Fig. 40 View Figure 40 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Heteroonops