Triaeris menchum, Platnick & Dupérré & Ubick & Fannes, 2012

Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Ubick, Darrell & Fannes, Wouter, 2012, Got Males?: The Enigmatic Goblin Spider Genus Triaeris (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2012 (3756), pp. 1-36 : 32

Triaeris menchum , new species

Figures 61–67

TYPE: Female holotype taken in a forest at an elevation of 2150 m at Lake Oku , 6°12′N, 10°27′E, Menchum Division, North-West Province, Cameroon (Feb. 7–13, 1992; C. Griswold, S. Larcher, N. Scharff, C. Wanzie), deposited in CAS (PBI_OON 3486) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females can be recognized by the leaf-shaped sclerotizations at the sides of the posterior receptaculum (figs. 66, 67).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 3486, figs. 61–67): Total length 2.29. Carapace pale orange, sides finely reticulate. Eyes subequal, ALE separated by more than their diameter; posterior eye row procurved from front. Sternum, mouthparts pale orange. Dorsal scutum pale orange, covering less than half of abdomen length, less than 1/4 of abdomen width. Postepigastric scutum pale orange, without posteriorly directed lateral apodemes. Legs pale orange, without color pattern. Leg spination: patella I v0-1p-1r; tibiae: I v2-4-0; II v1r-1r-0; IV v0-0-2. Genital atrium represented only as narrow slit; posterior receptaculum globular, with leaf-shaped lateral sclerotizations.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: One female with the same data as the holotype, “beneath rocks and logs” ( CAS PBI_OON 3482). DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon.

Figures

FIGURES 61–67. Triaeris menchum, new species, female. 61. Habitus, dorsal view. 62. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 63. Abdomen, ventral view. 64–66. Epigastric area, ventral view. 67. Same, dorsal view.