Escaphiella maculosa, Platnick & Dupérré, 2009

Platnick, Norman I. & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, The American Goblin Spiders Of The New Genus Escaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2009 (328), pp. 1-151 : 105-108

Escaphiella maculosa , new species Figures 668–674 ; map 14

TYPE: Female holotype from Central, 11 ° 01–11 ° 199S, 41 ° 47–42 ° 109W, Bahia, Brazil (July 15–31, 2002; E. Ramos, F. Cunha), deposited in IBSP (67400, PBI_OON 27754) .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name refers to the spotted abdomen.

DIAGNOSIS: Females resemble those of E. hespera and E. hesperoides in having a pair of posterior sclerotizations within the epigynal atrium (fig. 669), but can easily be distinguished from both those species by their mottled dark patterning on the abdomen (fig. 668), and from the Brazilian E. hesperoides by having the posterior epigynal sclerotizations closer together (fig. 673).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 27754): Total length 2.37. Carapace dark red-brown, surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth, sides granulate; lateral margins with blunt denticles (figs. 670, 674). Eyes ALE circular, PME squared; ALE touching, ALE-PLE touching, PME touching for less than half their length (fig. 671). Sternum dark red-brown, with radial furrows between coxae I– II, II–III, III–IV, furrow smooth, surface smooth, microsculpture absent. Chelicerae, endites, and labium dark red-brown. Abdomen ovoid; dorsum soft portions white, with striped pigmentation (figs. 668, 672); book lung covers large, ovoid; pedicel tube medium, ribbed, scutopedicel region unmodified, scutum extending far dorsal of pedicel; epigastric scutum anteriorly with scutal ridge; postepigastric scutum red-brown. PMS present (stereoscope). Legs dark red-brown. Epigynal atrium with pair of posterior sclerotizations (figs. 669, 673).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Bahia, Brazil (map 14).

Figures

Figs. 668–674. Escaphiella maculosa, new species, female. 668. Habitus, dorsal view. 669. Same, ventral view. 670. Carapace, dorsal view. 671. Habitus, anterior view. 672. Same, lateral view. 673. Epigynum, ventral view. 674. Carapace, lateral view.