Camptoscaphiella taplejung Baehr, 2010

Baehr, Barbara C., Harvey, Mark S. & Smith, Helen M., 2010, A Review of the Asian Goblin Spider Genus Camptoscaphiella (Araneae: Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2010 (3697), pp. 1-66 : 20

Camptoscaphiella taplejung Baehr , new species

Figures 188–189 , 343–352 ; map 5

TYPE: Female holotype, from Nepal, Taplejung District , ridge Lasse Dhara and pasture Lassetham NW of Yamputhin, 3000 m, 27°29′ N, 87°51′ °E (6–7 Sep 1983, J. Martens, B. Daams), deposited in SMF (PBI_OON 15760) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females can be separated from all other species by epigastric area with a large, almost square median plate and a small thornlike anterior sclerite close to epigastric fold and a long, narrow sinuous copulatory duct with broadened tip reaching far beyond posterior groove.

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 15760, figs. 343–352): Total length 1.79. Carapace yellow-brown, lateral margin undulate. Eyes: ALE 0.090; PME 0.079; PLE 0.085, ALE largest, ALE circular, PME squared, PLE oval; posterior eye row procurved from both above and front; ALE-PLE touching, PME touching throughout most of their length, PLE-PME touching. Sternum chelicerae, endites, and labium yellow. Abdomen oval, dorsal scutum yellow-brown, covering 1 ⁄ 2 to 3 ⁄ 4 of abdomen, more than 1 ⁄ 2 to most of abdomen width, not fused to epigastric scutum. Epigastric and postepigastric scutum yellow-brown, widely hexagonal, only around epigastric furrow. Legs: femur I with 2 prolateral spines. Epigastric area with large, almost square median plate and thornlike anterior sclerite; copulatory duct long, narrow, sinuous with broad tip reaching far beyond posterior groove (figs. 188–189, 352).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: East Nepal south of the Kanchenjunga massif (map 5).

Figures

FIGURES 188–193. Camptoscaphiella species, female epigyna. 188. C. taplejung, new species (PBI_OON 15760), ventral view. 189. Same, dorsal view. 190. C. martensi, new species (PBI_OON 15407), ventral view. 191. Same, dorsal view. 192. C. martensi, new species (PBI_OON 15724), ventral view. 193. Same, dorsal view. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.

FIGURES 343–352. Camptoscaphiella taplejung, new species, female (PBI_OON 15760). 343. Habitus, dorsal view. 344. Same, ventral view. 345. Carapace, dorsal view. 346. Habitus, anterior view. 347. Same, lateral view. 348. Leg I, prolateral view. 349. Sternum, ventral view. 350. Abdomen, ventral view. 351. Abdomen, anterior view. 352. Epigynum, dorsal view. Scale bars, habitus = 0.5 mm, epigynum = 0.1 mm.