Ponsoonops hamus, 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-

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/3803.1
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA66A32B-FFED-4773-FE2F-D017A7B3F956
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scientific name	Ponsoonops hamus
status	new species

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Ponsoonops hamus , new species

Figures 127–141

NOTE: Males and females have not been collected together, show some somatic differences (e.g., carapace color), and may be mismatched.

TYPES: Male holotype and one male paratype from a Berlese sample from forest litter on limestone taken at a site 2.5 mi south of Belmopan, Cayo, Belize (Aug. 4, 1972, S. and J. Peck), deposited in FMNH (PBI_ OON 38345 View Materials ) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a Latin noun referring to the hook-shaped appendage at the embolus tip.

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of P. samadam in having a simple, tubelike embolus (fig. 136). They differ in having a basally diverging conductor and embolus (fig. 134, 136; rather than parallel), and a hooklike projection at the embolus tip (fig. 137; rather than a platelike