Niarchos florezi, 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 : 35

Niarchos florezi , new species Figures 213–225

TYPE: Male holotype from a Berlese sample of litter taken at an elevation of 1800 m in a secondary forest at ‘‘ Pereira , correg. La Florida , yda. La Suiza, Otun Quimbaya,’’ 4u449N, 75u359W, Risaralda, Colombia (Mar. 25, 2005; A. Sabogal), deposited in ICN (PBI_OON 438) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Eduardo Florez (ICN), a distinguished Colombian arachnologist who has made available for study many fascinating Colombian oonopids.

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of N. wygodzinskyi in having a distally bent tip on the relatively narrow retroventral projection on the palpal bulb, and an elongated embolar region, but have a larger, thicker embolus (figs. 221–225).

MALE (PBI_OON 438, figs. 213–225): Total length 1.78. Posterior eye row straight from above; PLE-PME separated by PME radius to PME diameter. Sternum surface finely reticulate. Endites with anterior projection triangular, expanded posteriorly. Leg spination: tibiae III, IV v0-0- 1p. Embolus long, strong, curved; bulb with short, distally bent retroventral projection (figs. 221–225).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Four males taken with the holotype (ICN, AMNH PBI_OON 40823).

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Risaralda department, Colombia.

Figures

Figs. 213–225. Niarchos florezi, new species, male. 213. Habitus, dorsal view. 214. Same, ventral view. 215. Same, lateral view. 216. Carapace, dorsal view. 217. Habitus, anterior view. 218. Carapace, lateral view. 219. Epigastric region, ventral view. 220. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 221. Embolus, ventral view. 222. Same, prolateral view. 223. Palp, prolateral view. 224. Same, ventral view. 225. Same, retrolateral view.