Triaeris oku, Platnick & Dupérré & Ubick & Fannes, 2012

Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Ubick, Darrell & Fannes, Wouter, 2012, Got Males?: The Enigmatic Goblin Spider Genus Triaeris (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2012 (3756), pp. 1-36 : 31-32

Triaeris oku , new species

Figures 54–60

TYPES: Female holotype and female paratype taken in a forest at an elevation of 2150 m at Lake Oku , 6°12′N, 10°27′E, Menchum Division, North-West Province, Cameroon (Feb. 7–13, 1992; C. Griswold, S. Larcher, N. Scharff, C. Wanzie), deposited in CAS (PBI_OON 3485) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Female can be recognized by the darkened, almost parallel lateral margins of the posterior receptaculum, which has a simple curl at its posterior end (figs. 59, 60).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 3485, figs. 54–60): Total length 1.99. Carapace pale orange, sides finely reticulate. Eyes subequal, ALE separated by more than their diameter; posterior eye row straight from front. Sternum, mouthparts pale orange. Dorsal scutum pale orange, covering half to 3/4 of abdomen length, more than half to most of abdomen width. Postepigastric scutum pale orange, without posteriorly directed lateral apodemes. Legs pale orange, without color pattern. Leg spination: patella I v0-1p-1r; tibiae: I v2-4-0; II v1r-2-0; IV v0-0-2. Ovoid atrium present between weakly invaginated edges of epigastric and postepigastric scuta, no transverse sclerotization obvious, sides of posterior receptaculum darkened, almost parallel.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon.

Figures

FIGURES 54–60. Triaeris oku, new species, female. 54. Habitus, dorsal view. 55. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 56. Abdomen, ventral view. 57–59. Epigastric area, ventral view. 60. Same, dorsal view.