Escaphiella bolivar, Platnick & Dupérré, 2009

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, The American Goblin Spiders Of The New Genus Escaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2009 (328), pp. 1-151 : 97

Escaphiella bolivar , new species Figures 609–617 ; map 10

TYPE: Female holotype taken in a flight intercept trap in a woodland on sand 35 km SW Puerto Ordaz, Bolívar, Venezuela (July 13–Aug. 2, 1987; S., J. Peck), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 37500) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: The female epigynum resembles that of E. itys but has a more strongly sclerotized posterior portion (figs. 614, 615); these females also lack the abdominal pigmentation found in E. itys (fig. 609).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 37500): Total length 1.14 (fig. 610). Carapace pale orange, surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth, sides smooth; lateral margins with blunt denticles (fig. 611). Eyes: ALE oval, PME squared, PLE; ALE touching, ALE-PLE touching, PME touching throughout most of their length (fig. 612). Sternum pale orange, without radial furrows between coxae I–II, II–III, III–IV, surface smooth, microsculpture absent (fig. 617). Chelicerae, endites, and labium pale orange. Abdomen ovoid; soft portions of dorsum white (figs. 609, 613); book lung covers large, ovoid; pedicel tube medium, ribbed, scutopedicel region unmodified, scutum extending far dorsal of pedice (fig. 616); epigastric scutum with margins of anterior part finely granulate (fig. 615); postepigastric scutum pale orange, sides smooth. PMS present (compound microscope). Legs pale orange. Anterior sclerite filling most of anterior half of epigynum (fig. 614).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: One female taken with the holotype (AMNH PBI_OON 37500).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Venezuela (map 10).

Figures

Figs. 609–617. Escaphiella bolivar, new species, female. 609. Habitus, dorsal view. 610. Same, ventral view. 611. Carapace, dorsal view. 612. Habitus, anterior view. 613. Same, lateral view. 614. Epigynum, ventral view. 615. Abdomen, anterior view. 616. Anterior portion of abdomen, oblique lateral view. 617. Cephalothorax, ventral view.