Reductoonops pichincha, Platnick & Berniker, 2014

Platnick, Norman I. & Berniker, Lily, 2014, ffle Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genus Reductoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2014 (3811), pp. 1-75 : 67

Reductoonops pichincha , new species ( figs. 373–380 )

TYPES: Female holotype and female paratype sorted by hand from cloud forest litter with palm taken at an elevation of 1495 m at Tandapi , 2 km from the main road from Tandapi to Quito, 00°23′17″S, 77°49′04″W, Pichincha, Ecuador (Dec. 7, 2009; N. Dupérré, E. Tapia, Niarchos Exped. ), deposited in QCAZ (PBI_OON 51319), plus female paratype, same data, deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 49612) .

DIAGNOSIS: Females resemble those of R. napo in having lateral expansions on the tip of the anterior genitalic process, but the process is narrower than in that species ( figs. 379, 380 ). Compared to the sympatric species R. tandapi , these animals have much smaller eyes ( fig. 375 ), and the sternal setae are concentrated on the sides of the sternum ( figs. 373, 374 ).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 51319, figs. 373–380 ): Total length 1.63. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Eyes two; ALE touching. Sternum with anterior channels, surface smooth, microsculpture absent; setae densest laterally. Labium anterior margin deeply incised. Anterior genitalic process with short, cap-shaped tip bearing lateral expansions.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: ECUADOR: Pichincha: 21 km N Tandapi, on main road from Tandapi to Quito , 00°27′20.3″S, 77°45′15.5″W, Dec. 7, 2009, cloud forest litter, elev. 2150 m (N. Dupérré, E. Tapia, Niarchos Exped., AMNH PBI _OON 49604), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Ecuador (Pichincha).

Figures

FIGURES 368–380. 368–372. Reductoonops tandapi, new species, male (368) and female (369–372). 373–380. R. pichincha, new species, female. 368, 369, 373, 374. Sternum, ventral view. 370, 375, 377. Carapace, anterior view. 371, 379. Genitalia, ventral view. 372, 380. Same, dorsal view. 376. Labium and endites, ventral view. 378. Spinnerets, posterior view.