Reductoonops hedlite, 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 : 71

Reductoonops hedlite , new species ( figs. 486–505 )

TYPES: Male holotype, male paratype, female allotype, and female paratype taken at an elevation of 1910 m at Cuenca Molleturo, Luz María, 02.68918°S, 79.41537°W, Azuay, Ecuador (Jan. 25, 2010; E. Tapia), deposited in QCAZ (PBI_OON 10793), plus one male and one female paratypes, same data, deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 49609) .

ETYMOLOGY: ffle specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.

DIAGNOSIS: Members of this species resemble those of R. tandapi in having enlarged eyes ( figs. 486, 487 , 503 ) and widespread sternal setae ( figs. 501, 502 ); males differ in having a prolonged embolar base ( figs. 497–500 ), females in having an abruptly narrowed tip on the anterior genitalic process ( figs. 504, 505 ).

MALE (PBI_OON 10793, figs. 486–501 ): Total length 1.06. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Eyes two; ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum with anterior channels, surface smooth, without pits, microsculpture absent; setae evenly scattered. Labium anterior margin indented at middle. Endite tip with small lobe bearing modified seta, two other modified setae situated more proximally, one of those jutting out to side of endite. Base of embolus with distal protrusion, conductor very narrow; cymbium not fused with bulb.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 10793, figs. 502–505 ): Total length 1.36. Anterior genitalic process long, with abruptly narrowed tip.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: ECUADOR: Azuay: Molleturo, Yumate, via Pan de Azúcar , 02.76757°S, 79.43222°W, Jan. 23, 2010, elev. 2450 m (E. Tapia, QCAZ PBI_OON 10791), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Ecuador (Azuay).

Figures

FIGURES 486–500. Reductoonops hedlite, new species, male. 486. Carapace, anterior view. 487. Eye group, anterior view. 488. Spinnerets, posterior view. 489. Labium and endites, ventral view. 490. Tip of endite, ventral view. 491. Palp, prolateral view. 492. Same, ventral view. 493. Same, retrolateral view. 494. Same, dorsal view. 495. Palpal bulb, prolateral view. 496. Same, retrolateral view. 497. Embolus, prolateral view. 498. Same, ventral view. 499. Same, retrolateral view. 500. Same, dorsal view.

FIGURES 501–510. 501–505. Reductoonops hedlite, new species, male (501) and female (502–505). 506–510. R. molleturo, new species, male (506) and female (507–510). 501, 502, 506, 507. Sternum, ventral view. 503, 508. Carapace, anterior view. 504, 509. Genitalia, ventral view. 505, 510. Same, dorsal view.