Simonoonops simoni, Platnick & Dupérré, 2011

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2011, The Goblin Spider Genus Simonoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2011 (3724), pp. 1-32 : 16

Simonoonops simoni , new species

Figures 77–91

Dysderina principalis (misidentification): Simon, 1891: 557, 1893b: 441 (in part, some specimens from Venezuela only).

TYPES: Male holotype, female allotype, and female paratype from Venezuela, presumably from one of the three localities listed by Simon (1893b: 441; Caracas, Corosal, and San-Esteban), deposited in MNHN (part of MNHN AR 5764 , now PBI_OON 666) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of the collector and first student of these animals, Eugène Simon.

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of S. craneae but have only a small, dorsally situated tubercle on the palpal conductor (figs. 82–85); females have a distinctively widened genital atrium (figs. 89–91).

MALE (PBI_OON 666, figs. 77–85): Total length 1.78. Carapace unpatterned, elevated portion of pars cephalica reticulate. Chilum short, wide triangle. Endites with ventral process with elongate tip directed toward, and almost meeting, tip of dorsal process. Anterior femora darkened. Leg spination: femur I p0-0-2; r0-1-0; tibiae: I v4-4-1p, II v4-4-0; metatarsi I, II v2-2-0. Embolus twisted, conductor with small, dorsally situated tubercle.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 666, figs. 86–91): Total length 1.86. Leg spination: femora I, II p0-0-2, r0-2-0; tibiae: I v4-4-2, II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2-1p, II v2-2-0. Atrium greatly widened, almost filled with wide sclerotization that is more heavily sclerotized at sides than in middle; posterior margin of transverse bar connecting genitalic apodemes invaginated at midline.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela.

Figures

FIGURES 77–91. Simonoonops simoni, new species, male (77–85) and female (86–91). 77. Carapace, dorsal view. 78, 86. Same, anterior view. 79. Sternum, ventral view. 80. Carapace, lateral view. 81. Mouthparts, ventral view. 82. Left embolus, prolateral view. 83. Left palp, prolateral view. 84. Same, ventral view. 85. Same, retrolateral view. 87. Abdomen, lateral view. 88. Same, ventral view. 89, 90. Genitalia, ventral view. 91. Same, dorsal view.