Ponsoonops salimsa, Bolzern, 2014

Bolzern, Angelo, 2014, The Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genera Ponsoonops and Bipoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2014 (3803), pp. 1-1 : 1-

Ponsoonops salimsa , new species

Figures 361–372

TYPE: Male holotype from a Berlese sample of a bird nest hanging from a Heliconia leaf in a glen taken at an elevation between 732–792 m at a site at trail to Las Minas, El Valle, Coclé, Panama (Feb. 23, 1959, H.S. Dybas), deposited in FMNH (33886 PBI_OON 10388) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: The male resembles those of P. bollo , P. boquete , P. fanselix , P. lerida , P. panto , and P. vuena in having an embolus with a median protrusion (figs. 371, 372). It differs clearly from all those but P. bollo in having a very short, elongated embolus tip (figs. 326, 329). It differs from P. bollo in having a relatively long and slender embolus (fig. 368; rather than a short and broad one), and in showing distinct, short longitudinal ridges at the tapering point on the embolus (fig. 372).

MALE (PBI_OON 10388, figs. 361–372): Total length 1.22. Leg spination: tibiae: I, II v4-2- 2; IV p0-1-0, v0-0-2, r0-1-0; metatarsi: I, II v2-2-2; IV p0-1-0, r0-1-0. Sperm pore oval. Cymbial cone indistinct, cone shaped. Embolus broad, tube shaped, longitudinally folded, with ventral

Figures

FIGURES 361–372. Ponsoonops salimsa, new species, male. 361. Carapace, dorsal view. 362. Same, anterior view. 363. Sternum, ventral view. 364. Abdomen, dorsal view. 365. Same, ventral view. 366. Tarsal organ, palp, dorsal view. 367. Palp, prolateral view. 368. Same, dorsal view. 369. Same, retrolateral view. 370. Embolus and conductor, dorsal view. 371. Same, prolateral view. 372. Embolus tip, prolateral view.