Simonoonops etang, Platnick & Dupérré, 2011

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2011, The Goblin Spider Genus Simonoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2011 (3724), pp. 1-32 : 21

Simonoonops etang , new species

Figures 138–152

TYPE: Male holotype taken in trap at Grand Etang, Grenada, Windward Islands (Nov. – Dec. 1912; R. Thaxter), deposited in MCZ (72975, PBI_OON 27630) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males have a complex embolus, with two distal prongs, most distal one narrow, curved, other one squared (figs. 143–146); females have an oval genital atrium and a narrow anterior genitalic process (figs. 150–152).

MALE (PBI_OON 27630, figs. 138–146): Total length 1.68. Posterior half of pars cephalica with pair of elongate, oval, paramedian light areas, surface reticulate except over those light areas, where smooth. Chilum small, triangular. Endites with ventral process with elongate tip directed toward dorsal process. Anterior femora darkened. Leg spination: femora: I p0-0-2, r0-1-0, II p0-0-1; tibiae: I v4-4-1p, II v4-4-0; metatarsi: I v2-2-1p, II v2-2-0. Embolus with two distal prongs, most distal one narrow, curved, other one squared; conductor distally narrowed.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 27632, figs. 147–152): Total length 2.02. Leg spination: femora I, II p0-0-2; r0-2-1; tibiae: I v4-4-2, II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2-1p, II v2-2-0. Atrium oval, with strongly rebordered posterior margin, anterior genitalic process visible through cuticle as narrow median line; apodemes greatly elongated, bent.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: The following specimens taken with the types: MCZ 72972, PBI_OON 27633, 1♀ ; MCZ 72973, PBI_OON 27632, 3♀ ; MCZ 92974, PBI_OON 27631, 1♂ .

DISTRIBUTION: Windward Islands ( Grenada).

Figures

FIGURES 138–152. Simonoonops etang, new species, male (138–146) and female (147–152). 138. Carapace, dorsal view. 139, 147. Same, anterior view. 140. Sternum, ventral view. 141. Carapace, lateral view. 142. Mouthparts, ventral view. 143. Left embolus, prolateral view. 144. Left palp, prolateral view. 145. Same, ventral view. 146. Same, retrolateral view. 148. Abdomen, lateral view. 149. Same, ventral view. 150, 151. Genitalia, ventral view. 152. Same, dorsal view.