Bipoonops Bolzern, 2014

Duperre, Nadine & Tapia, Elicio, 2017, The goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae) of the OTONGA Nature Reserve in Ecuador, with the description of seven new species, Evolutionary Systematics 1 (1), pp. 87-109 : 95

Genus Bipoonops Bolzern, 2014

Type species.

Bipoonops pucuna Bolzern, 2014.

Diagnosis.

Carapace with an indistinct, dark spot on the posterior half. Abdomen highly patterned. Dorsal abdominal scutum present in males with dorsal scutum anteromedially fused to the epigastric scutum, absent in females. Leg spines present. Males cymbium and bulb not fused; bipartite conductor. Females differ in having a very short postepigastric scutum surrounding the pedicel, almost as wide as, not fused to the epigastric scutum, and in lacking small lateral sclerites at the epigastric area ( Bolzern 2014: 56).

Composition and distribution.

Five species found only in Ecuador.