Reductoonops armeria, 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 : 12

Reductoonops armeria , new species ( figs. 121–140 )

TYPES: Male holotype and male paratype from Las Humedades, Armería, Colima, Mexico (Jan. 19, 1943; F. Bonet), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 31161) .

DIAGNOSIS: Members of this species resemble those of R. chamela and R. niltepec in retaining the four posterior eyes. Males differ from those of R. chamela and R. niltepec in having a much shorter base subtending both the embolus and conductor ( figs. 132–135 ). Females differ from those of R. chamela in having the posterior portion of the anterior genitalic process much longer, and from those of R. niltepec in having that portion of the process wider distally than proximally ( figs. 139, 140 ).

MALE (PBI_OON 31161, figs. 121–136 ): Total length 1.02. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica finely reticulate. Eyes six; ALE touching. Sternum without anterior channels, surface finely reticulate, without pits, microsculpture only at sides; setae densest laterally. Labium anterior margin indented at middle. Endite tip with rounded, laterally directed lobe. Combined base of embolus and conductor short, conductor narrow, embolus sharply bent at three-fourths its length; cymbium not fused with bulb.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 37320, figs. 137–140 ): Total length 1.19. Anterior portion of anterior genitalic process subdistally expanded, planaria shaped.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: MEXICO: Colima: 12 mi E Manzanillo , 19°01′N, 104°10′W, May 11, 1963 (W. Gertsch, W. Ivie, AMNH PBI_OON 37320), 2♂, 2♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Mexico (Colima).

Figures

FIGURES 121–135. Reductoonops armeria, new species, male. 121. Carapace, anterior view. 122. Eye group, anterior view. 123. Spinnerets, posterior view. 124. Labium and endites, ventral view. 125. Tip of endite, ventral view. 126. Palp, prolateral view. 127. Same, ventral view. 128. Same, retrolateral view. 129. Same, dorsal view. 130. Palpal bulb, prolateral view. 131. Same, retrolateral view. 132. Embolus, prolateral view. 133. Same, ventral view. 134. Same, retrolateral view. 135. Same, dorsal view.

FIGURES 136–145. 136–140. Reductoonops armeria, new species, male (136) and female (137–140). 141–145. R. niltepec, new species, male (141) and female (142–145). 136, 137, 141, 142. Sternum, ventral view. 138, 143. Abdomen, ventral view. 139, 144. Genitalia, ventral view. 140, 145. Same, dorsal view.