Aschnaoonops gorda, Platnick & Dupérré & Berniker & Bonaldo, 2013

Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Berniker, Lily & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2013, The Goblin Spider Genera Prodysderina, Aschnaoonops, And Bidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (373), pp. 1-102 : 89

Aschnaoonops gorda , new species

Figures 547–551

TYPE: Female holotype from Virgin Gorda Mountain , Virgin Gorda, Virgin Islands (June 26, 1966), deposited in AMNH ( PBI_OON 38069 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Females can be recognized by the narrow, triangular basal sclerite at the base of the tiny, T-shaped anterior genitalic process (fig. 551).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 38069, figs. 547– 551): Total length 2.07. ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum surface coarsely reticulate, microsculpture everywhere but front. Dorsal scutum covering more than 3/4 of abdomen length, more than 1/2 to most of abdomen width, not fused to epigastric scutum. Postepigastric scutum almost semicircular, covering about 1/3 of abdomen length. Leg spination: femora I, II p0-0-2, r1-1-1; tibiae: I v4-4-2; II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-1p-2; II v3-0-2. Anterior genitalic process apparently tiny, T-shaped, hidden behind narrow triangular basal sclerite.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.

DISTRIBUTION: Virgin Islands.

Figures

Figs. 540–551. Aschnaoonops malkini, new species, female (540–546) and A. gorda, new species, female (547–551). 540. Carapace, dorsal view. 541, 547. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 542. Abdomen, dorsal view. 543, 544, 549, 550. Genitalia, ventral view. 545, 551. Same, dorsal view. 546, 548. Abdomen, ventral view.