Camptoscaphiella schwendingeri Baehr, 2010

Baehr, Barbara C., Harvey, Mark S. & Smith, Helen M., 2010, A Review of the Asian Goblin Spider Genus Camptoscaphiella (Araneae: Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2010 (3697), pp. 1-66 : 17

Camptoscaphiella schwendingeri Baehr , new species

Figures 173–175 , 327–335 ; map 4

TYPE: Male holotype, from Thailand, Amphoe Mae Sai Co., Changwat Chian Rai , Tharn ( Cave ) Pla, 1120 m, 20.33333°N, 99.86666°E (21 Jun 1986, P.L. Stone), deposited in RMNH (PBI_OON 23365) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of Peter Schwendinger who surveyed the soil-dwelling arthropod fauna of Southeast Asia for many years and who collected a specimen of this species.

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be easily recognized by the carapace with dark brown median stripe and the distal part of bulb with two wing-shaped appendices, median one twice as long as lateral one.

MALE (PBI_OON 23365, figs. 327–335): Total length 1.47. Carapace pale orange, pars cephalica domed in lateral view, with longitudinal brown stripe medially. Sternum, chelicerae, endites and labium pale orange. Abdomen: scutae pale orange; dorsal scutum covering about 1 ⁄ 2 of abdomen length, between 1 ⁄ 4 and 1 ⁄ 2 abdomen width, not fused to epigastric scutum; postepigastric scutum, short, only around epigastric furrow. Palp (figs. 173–175, 333–335) redbrown; patella: L, 0.49 mm; P, 0.30 mm; PR, 0.61; H, 0.14 mm; L/H, 3.5; cymbium yellow-brown, ovoid in dorsal view; bulb pale orange, distal part with 2 wing-shaped appendices; median one twice as long as lateral one and retrolateral directed fold.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: THAILAND: Loei Province: Phu Rua District: Phu Rua National Park , 1230 m, 17.50000°S, 101.50000°E, Dec. 20, 1994, P. Schwendinger, 1♂ ( MHNG PBI_OON 15490) .

DISTRIBUTION: Middle and northern Thailand (map 4).

MAP 4. Records of Camptoscaphiella schwendingeri (circles), C. silens

(square) and C. simoni (triangle).

Figures

FIGURES 173–178. Camptoscaphiella schwendingeri, new species (PBI_OON

FIGURES 327–335. Camptoscaphiella schwendingeri, new species, male (PBI_OON 23365). 327. Habitus, dorsal view. 328. Same, ventral view. 329. Sternum, ventral view. 330. Carapace, anterior view. 331. Habitus, lateral view. 332. Leg I, prolateral view. 333. Palp, prolateral view. 334. Same, dorsal view. 335. Same, retrolateral view. Scale bars, habitus = 0.5 mm, palp = 0.25 mm.