Pseudodysderina dracula, Platnick & Berniker, 2013

Platnick, Norman I. & Berniker, Lily, 2013, ffie South American Goblin Spiders of the New Genera Pseudodysderina and Tinadysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2013 (3787), pp. 1-44 : 21

Pseudodysderina dracula , new species

Figures 121–129

TYPE: Male holotype taken at an elevation of 600 m in a forest outlying a farm (Granja Scria Agricultura) at Santa Cecilia, Risaralda, Colombia (Oct. 1991), deposited in ICN (420, PBI_OON 49903) .

ETYMOLOGY: ffie specific name is a noun in apposition, referring to the fanglike anterior projections on the chelicerae.

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by their highly modified chelicerae (fig. 125) and the greatly enlarged palpal conductor (figs. 126, 127).

MALE (PBI_OON 49903, figs. 121–129): Total length 1.66. Elevated portion of pars cephalica appearing finely reticulate; lateral margin with blunt denticles. ALE separated by their radius to diameter. Postepigastric scutum long, almost rectangular, extending to nearly full length of abdomen. Leg spination: femur I p0-0-2, r1-1-0; tibiae I, II v4-4-0; metatarsi: I v2-1p- 2; II v2-0-2. Embolus relatively short, straight; conductor greatly enlarged.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Colombia (Risaralda).

Figures

FIGURES 121–134. 121–129. Pseudodysderina dracula, new species, male. 130–134. P. hermani, new species, female. 121, 130. Sternum, ventral view. 122. Left palp, prolateral view. 123. Same, ventral view. 124. Same, retrolateral view. 125. Chelicerae, oblique lateral view. 126. Left embolus, prolateral view. 127. Same, ventral view. 128. Same, retrolateral view. 129. Labium and endites, ventral view. 131. Abdomen, ventral view. 132, 133. Female genitalia, ventral view. 134. Same, dorsal view.