Orchestina Simon, 1882

Duperre, Nadine & Tapia, Elicio, 2017, The goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae) of the OTONGA Nature Reserve in Ecuador, with the description of seven new species, Evolutionary Systematics 1 (1), pp. 87-109 : 98

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.1.14969

publication LSID

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scientific name

Orchestina Simon, 1882
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Genus Orchestina Simon, 1882 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species.

Orchestina pavesii (Simon, 1873).

Diagnosis.

Males and females with swollen fourth femur; H-shaped eye arrangement, recurved PER; high clypeus; tarsal organs pattern (4-4-3-3); legs lacking spines. Male palpal tibia enlarged, papal bulb with conspicuous seminal duct ( Henrard and Jocqué 2012; Izquierdo and Ramírez 2017).

Composition and distribution in Аmerica.

Ninety-three species across the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae