Brignolia chumphae, 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 : 106-107

Brignolia chumphae , new species

Figures 651–668

TYPE: Male holotype taken by sifting in a mixed deciduous forest at an elevation of 300 m in front of Tham (cave) Phiang Din , near road from Chumphae to Phu Kradung at km 122, Phu Pha Man National Park, Khon Kaen Prov., Thailand (July 24, 2000; P. Schwendinger), deposited in MHNG (PBI_OON 12550) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of B. assam but have the distalmost portion of the palpal bulb situated more dorsally than in that species (figs. 659–668).

MALE (PBI_OON 12550, figs. 651–668): Total length 1.74. Carapace orange-brown, without any pattern; pars cephalica strongly elevated in lateral view; posterolateral edge with pair of pits, posterior declivity with distinct shoulders but tubercles not enlarged, posterior margin squared, with pair of lateral sclerotizations. Sternum covered with small round pits. Scuto-pedicel region with W-shaped scutal ridge almost straight, without tubercles. Palpal bulb with basal ventral enlargement and proximally directed dorsal expansion.

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Thailand.