Aschnaoonops teleferico, 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 : 68

Aschnaoonops teleferico , new species

Figures 444–454

TYPE: Male holotype taken in a flight intercept trap in cloud forest litter at an elevation of 2450 m at the La Montan˜ a cable car (Telefe´rico) station in Me´rida, Me´rida, Venezuela (June 27–July 26, 1989; S., J. Peck), deposited in AMNH ( PBI_OON 23 ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by having the embolus cross shaped in retrolateral view (fig. 452), females by the short anterior genitalic process and irregularly oval basal sclerite (fig. 454).

MALE (PBI_OON 900, figs. 444, 447– 452): Total length 2.37. ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum surface coarsely reticulate, microsculpture everywhere but front. Endites with anterior process short, narrow. Dorsal scutum covering full length of abdomen, no soft tissue visible from above, not fused to epigastric scutum. Postepigastric scutum long, almost rectangular, extending to nearly full length of abdomen. Leg spination: femora: I p0-0-2, r1-1-1; II p0-0-1; tibiae: I v4-4-2; II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II v3-2-0. Sperm pore small, narrow, slitlike. Cymbium without distal patch of setae. Embolus with distal prong bearing short, acutely bent projection.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 900, figs. 445, 446, 453, 454): Total length 2.66. Dorsal scutum covering more than 3/4 of abdomen length, more than 1/2 to most of abdomen width, fused to epigastric scutum. Postepigastric scutum almost semicircular, covering about 1/3 of abdomen length. Leg spination: femora: I p0-0-2, r1-1-1; II p0-0-2;,r1-1-0; tibiae: I v4-4-2; II v4-4-1p; metatarsi: I v2-2- 2; II v3-0-2. Anterior genitalic process short, without distal enlargement, surrounded by basal sclerite for about 2/3 its length.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: Venezuela: Me´rida : Estacio´ n Telefe´rico La Montan ˜ a, Me´rida, Feb. 23–25, 1968, elev. 2440 m (P., B. Wygodzinsky, M. Cormons, AMNH PBI _OON 31137), 1♀, June 27, 1989, cloud forest litter, elev. 2440 m (S., J. Peck, AMNH PBI _ OON 47 ), 2♂, June 27–July 26, 1989, cloud forest, flight intercept trap, elev. 2450 m (S., J. Peck, AMNH PBI _ OON 33 ), 1♂, July 26, 1989, cloud forest litter, elev. 2450 m (S., J. Peck, AMNH PBI _ OON 43 ), 1♂ ; La Mucuy, 7 km E Tabay, Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada , 8 ° 37'35"N, 71 ° 02'01"W, May 24, 1998, cloud forest litter, elev. 2450 m (R. Anderson, AMNH PBI _ OON 899 , 900 ), 6♂, 2♀, 8 ° 37'41"N, 71 ° 01'46"W, May 24, 1998, cloud/bamboo forest litter, elev. 2520 m (R. Anderson, AMNH PBI _ OON 898 ), 2♂, 8 ° 37'44"N, 71 ° 02'26"W, May 24, 1998, upper montane forest litter, elev. 2340 m (R. Anderson, AMNH PBI _ OON 901 ), 10♂, 4♀ ; trail to Monte Cerpa, N Me´rida , Mar. 29, 1992, litter on moist bank, litter near stream, elev. 8300 ft (L. Herman, AMNH PBI _ OON 16 , 24 ), 2♂, litter near stream, elev. 7400 ft (L. Herman, AMNH PBI _ OON 40 ), 1♀ ; Sendero Truchicola , Mucuy, Tabay, June 17–July 3, 1989, cloud forest, flight intercept trap, elev. 2300 m (S., J. Peck, AMNH PBI _ OON 38 ), 1♂ .

DISTRIBUTION: Venezuela (Me´rida).

Figures

Figs. 444–454. Aschnaoonops teleferico, new species, male (444, 447–452) and female (445, 446, 453, 454). 444. Sternum and mouthparts, ventral view. 445. Abdomen, ventral view. 446, 453. Genitalia, ventral view. 447. Left palp, prolateral view. 448. Same, ventral view. 449. Same, retrolateral view. 450. Left embolus, prolateral view. 451. Same, ventral view. 452. Same, retrolateral view. 454. Genitalia, dorsal view.