Ponsoonops lerida, 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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5460105

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA66A32B-FFD9-4747-FE2B-D72DA10CF968

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Carolina

scientific name

Ponsoonops lerida
status

sp. nov.

Ponsoonops lerida View in CoL , new species

Figures 214–258 View FIGURES 214–228 View FIGURES 229–243 View FIGURES 244–258

NOTE: Even though male and female are from the same sample, the match is uncertain because males of P. boquete were also taken at the same locality and time.

TYPE: Male holotype from a Berlese sample of forest floor litter taken at an elevation of 2377 m at Finca Lérida near Boquete, Chiriquí, Panama (Mar. 17, 1959, H. Dybas), deposited in FMNH (PBI_OON 49187) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of P. boquete , P. panto , and P. vuena in having an embolus with a median protrusion, and a narrowed, distinctly elongated embolus tip (figs. 219, 223). They differ in having a distally truncated conductor, which is shorter than the embolus (rather than with short narrow projections in P. panto , pointed and longer than embolus in P. boquete and P. vuena ). In addition, they differ from P. panto in having a mound-shaped median protrusion at the embolus (rather than a ridge-shaped one). Females differ in having a quite broad, enlarged anterior genitalic process (figs. 227, 228, 241), and a subspherical, moderately sclerotized posterior genitalic process with a distinct short duct (figs. 227, 228, 243).

MALE (PBI_OON 49187, figs. 214–223): Total length 1.51. Dorsal scutum very weakly sclerotized. Leg spination: tibiae: I v4-2-2; II v4-2-1p; IV v0-0-2; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II p1-0-0, v2-2-2; IV p0-1-0. Sperm pore oval. Cymbial cone not detected. Tarsal organ on palpal cymbium with distal receptor appearing bifid. Embolus broad, tube shaped, longitudinally folded, with ventral slit and distoprolateral opening, midway with dorsal hump, tip narrowed, elongated, opening distoretrolaterally rebordered, platelike; conductor originates at embolus base, narrow, bandlike, elongated, distally truncated, almost as long as embolus.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 49187, figs. 224–258): Total length 1.71. Leg spination: tibiae: I p1-1-0, v4-2-2, r1-0-0; II p0-1-0, v4-2-2; IV p0-1-0, v1-0-2, r0-1-0; metatarsi: I, II p1-0-0, v2-2-2; IV p0-1-0. Large genital plate W-shaped, median protruding part wider than long; anterior genitalic process narrowly stalked, apex enlarged; posterior genitalic process subspherical with short duct, weakly sclerotized, distally with spoon-shaped glands (fig. 243).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: PANAMA: Chiriquí: same as holotype (H. Dybas, FMNH PBI_OON 49187), 2♀ , Finca Lérida near Boquete , “Barca Area,” Mar. 14, 1959, Berlese, litter, chips at base of cut stump, elev. 1722 m (H.S. Dybas, FMNH 56539 About FMNH PBI_OON 10761), 2♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Panama (Chiriquí).

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Ponsoonops

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