Brignolia valparai, Platnick & Dupérré, 2011

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2011, The Goblin Spider Genus Brignolia (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (349), pp. 1-131 : 68-73

Brignolia valparai , new species

Figures 401–424

TYPE: Male holotype taken by sifting in a forest with coffee at an elevation of 1100 m in the Anaimalai Hills, Valparai, Tamil Nadu, India (Nov. 20, 1972; C. Besuchet, I. Löbl), deposited in MHNG (PBI_OON 12775) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the arched and complex dorsal tip of the palpal bulb (figs. 409–418).

MALE (PBI_OON 12775, figs. 401–424): Total length 2.01. Carapace orange-brown, with dark brown egg-shaped patches behind eyes; pars cephalica strongly elevated in lateral view; posterolateral edge without pits, posterior declivity with distinct shoulders, posterior margin squared. Sternum covered with small round pits. Scuto-pedicel region with W-shaped scutal ridge, so weak at middle as to resemble two V-shaped ridges but with row of tubercles opposite pedicel triangles, most of anterior tubercle enlarged. Palpal bulb short, with ventral protrusion at about half its length, dorsal protrusion closer to tip.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: India: Tamil Nadu: Anaimalai Hills, 18 km N

Valparai, Nov. 18, 1972, sifting in forest, elev. 1250 m (C. Besuchet, I. Löbl, MHNG PBI_OON 12566), 2 -.

DISTRIBUTION: Tamil Nadu, India.

Figures

Figs. 401–408. Brignolia valparai, new species, male. 401. Carapace, dorsal view. 402. Same, anterior view. 403. Same, posterior view. 404. Cephalothorax, ventral view. 405. Abdomen, anterior view. 406. Same, ventral view. 407. Carapace, lateral view. 408. Abdomen, lateral view.

Figs. 409–416. Brignolia valparai, new species, male. 409, 413. Left palp, prolateral view. 410, 414. Same, retrolateral view. 411. Left palpal bulb, prolateral view. 412. Same, retrolateral view. 415. Same, dorsal view. 416. Same, ventral view.

Figs. 417–424. Brignolia valparai, new species, male. 417. Left palpal embolus, prolateral view. 418. Same, retrolateral view. 419. Endite, ventral view. 420. Tip of endite, ventral view. 421. Carapace, posterior view. 422. Posterior margin of carapace, dorsal view. 423. Abdomen, anterior view. 424. Pedicel tube, ventral view.