Aschnaoonops alban, Platnick & Dupérré & Berniker & Bonaldo, 2013

Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Berniker, Lily & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2013, The Goblin Spider Genera Prodysderina, Aschnaoonops, And Bidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (373), pp. 1-102 : 52-55

Aschnaoonops alban , new species

Figures 346–356

TYPE: Male holotype from Finca San Pablo , 3 km north of Alban, Cundinamarca, Colombia (Aug. 1–12, 1967; P., B. Wygodzinsky), deposited in AMNH ( PBI_OON 109 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of A. huila but have a less angular embolar base, especially in retrolateral view (figs. 352–354); females have a longer sclerite at the base of the anterior genitalic process (fig. 356).

MALE (PBI_OON 109, figs. 346, 349– 354): Total length 2.02. ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum surface finely reticulate, microsculpture everywhere but front. Endites with distal projection relatively short, wide. Dorsal scutum covering more than 3/4 of abdomen length, more than 1/2 to most of abdomen width, not fused to epigastric scutum. Postepigastric scutum long, almost rectangular, extending to nearly full length of abdomen. Leg spination: femur I p0-0-2, r1-1-1; tibiae: I v4-4-2; II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II v1p-1r-2. Sperm pore small, narrow, slitlike. Cymbium without distal patch of setae. Embolus with proximal and distal prongs forming shape like open claw.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 858, figs. 347, 348, 355, 356): Total length 2.39. Postepigastric scutum almost semicircular, covering about 1/2 of abdomen length. Leg spination: femora I, II p0-0-2, r1-1-1; tibiae: I v4-4-2; II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II v1p-2-2. Anterior genitalic process with wide, rectangular distal expansion.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Colombia: Cundinamarca: Granjas del Padre Luna, Municipio Alban, Oct. 18, 2001, elev. 2200 m (A. Gomez, ICN PBI_OON 858), 1♀.

DISTRIBUTION: Colombia (Cundinamarca).

Figures

Figs. 346–356. Aschnaoonops alban, new species, male (346, 349–354) and female (347, 348, 355, 356). 346. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 347. Abdomen, ventral view. 348, 355. Genitalia, ventral view. 349. Left palp, prolateral view. 350. Same, ventral view. 351. Same, retrolateral view. 352. Left embolus, prolateral view. 353. Same, ventral view. 354. Same, retrolateral view. 356. Genitalia, dorsal view.