Neoxyphinus saarineni Moss & Bonaldo, sp. nov.

Figs 12, 99–107; Map 2

Type material: Holotype: male from Las Melenis, Irapa, Mariño, Sucre, Venezuela (10°41’N, 62°37’W), leaf litter, 800 m, 10 May 1993, J. Lattke leg. (CAS, PBI _OON 2622).

Etymology. The specific name is a patronym honoring the architect Eero Saarinen, who projected the Gateway Arch, in St. Louis, USA, and refers to the resemblance of the shape of the sternal transversal ridge in this species with the outline of that monument.

Diagnosis. The male of N. saarineni sp. nov. is distinguished from those of all other species of the genus by the lack of leg spines and by the modified sternum, with three pairs of marginal elevations, the middle one connected by a single transversal raised arched ridge (Fig. 102).

Description. Male (holotype): total length 2.28. Cephalothorax: carapace dark red-brown, broadly oval, pars cephalica slightly elevated, posterolateral surface without spikes, surfaces and sides smooth, lateral margin without denticles. Clypeus margin slightly reborded, straight in frontal view, high (Fig. 104). Sternum wider than long, dark red-brown, surface smooth, with posterior hump and one pair of elevations near coxae II, III and IV (Fig. 102), elevation in coxae III connected by a single transversally raised arched ridge (median ridge) (Fig. 102); Chelicerae, endites and labium dark red-brown (Fig. 102). Abdomen: book lung covers large and ovoid. Dorsal scutum dark red-brown, middle surface smooth and sides finely reticulate, anterior half without projecting denticles (Fig. 103). Epigastric and postepigastric scutum dark red-brown. Legs: orange-brown (Fig. 99). Genitalia: epigastric region with sperm pore small and oval. Palp proximal articles, cymbium and bulb pale orange (Fig. 105). Embolus with prolateral prong (Fig. 107), apical projection short and thick (Figs 105–107).

Female: unknown.

Other material examined. None.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.