Scaphios planada, Platnick & Duperre, 2010

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2010, The Andean Goblin Spiders Of The New Genera Niarchos And Scaphios (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (345), pp. 1-120 : 116

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/727.1

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scientific name

Scaphios planada
status

sp. nov.

Scaphios planada View in CoL , new species Figs. 900–920 View Figs View Figs

TYPE: Male holotype from Winkler sample of litter taken at an elevation of 1850 m at Parcela Olga, Reserva Natural La Planada, 1u159N, 78u159W, Nariño, Colombia (Apr. 4–6, 2001; G. Oliva), deposited in IAVH (108090, PBI_OON 466) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the medially widened embolus (figs. 906– 910), females by the laterally sinuous trans- verse bar at the base of the anterior genitalic projection (figs. 919, 920).

MALE (PBI_OON 466, figs. 900–910): Total length 1.54. PME oval; ALE separated by less than their radius; PLE-PME separat- ed by less than PME radius. Endites with anterior projection situated distally, short, directed laterally. Leg spination: tibiae: III v0-0-1p; IV v0-0-2; metatarsi IV v0-0- 1p. Embolus distinctly widened at about half its length; bulb elongated (figs. 906–910).

FEMALE (PBI_OON 467, figs. 911–920): Total length 1.76. Posterior eye row recurved from above, procurved from front. Leg spination: tibiae IV v0-0-2; metatarsi IV v0- 0- 1p. Transverse bar at base of anterior genitalic projection wide, sinuous (figs. 919, 920).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Colombia: Nariño: Parcela Permanente, Reserva Natural La Planada, 1u159N, 78u159W, Dec. 2–6, 2001, Winkler, elev. 1855 m (G. Oliva, IAVH 108087, PBI_OON 467), 1 U.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Nariño province in southwestern Colombia.

IAVH

Instituto de Ivestigacion de los Recursos Biologicos Alexander von Humboldt

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Scaphios

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