Aschnaoonops malkini, 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 : 82

Aschnaoonops malkini , new species

Figures 540–546

TYPE: Female holotype from Igarape´ Bele´m , near its confluence with the Rio Solimo˜ es , Amazonas, Brazil (Apr. 5–30, 1966; B. Malkin), deposited in AMNH ( PBI_OON 38061 ) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of the collector of the holotype, Borys Malkin.

DIAGNOSIS: The single known female resembles those of the Colombian species A. pira but has a wider anterior expansion on the anterior genitalic process (fig. 545). It is conceivable that it represents the unknown female of the Colombian species A. leticia (according to Lynch, 1980, the Brazilian type locality is about 70 km east of Leticia, Colombia, although according to Heyer, 1994, there is some doubt about whether all the Malkin material with this locality data is actually from the same place). However, the sternum of the Brazilian female (fig. 541) is more tuberculate than that of the Colombian male (fig. 274), and we therefore predict that the male of the Brazilian species, when collected, will be different from that of A. leticia .

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 38061, figs. 540– 546): Total length 1.85. ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum surface coarsely reticulate, microsculpture everywhere but front. 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 almost semicircular, covering about 1/3 of abdomen length. Leg spination: femora I, II p0-0-2, r1-1-1; tibiae I, II v4-4-2; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II v3-0-2. Anterior genitalic process with short, wide, semicircular anterior expansion; basal sclerite shorter at middle than at sides.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Brazil (far western Amazonas).

Figures

Figs. 540–551. Aschnaoonops malkini, new species, female (540–546) and A. gorda, new species, female (547–551). 540. Carapace, dorsal view. 541, 547. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 542. Abdomen, dorsal view. 543, 544, 549, 550. Genitalia, ventral view. 545, 551. Same, dorsal view. 546, 548. Abdomen, ventral view.