Longoonops gorda, Platnick N. I. & Dupérré N., 2010

Platnick N. I. & Dupérré N., 2010, The Goblin Spider Genera Stenoonops And Australoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), With Notes On Related Taxa, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (340), pp. 1-111 : 86

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scientific name	Longoonops gorda
status	new species

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Longoonops gorda , new species Figures 704–726

TYPE: Male holotype and female allotype taken on Virgin Gorda, Virgin Islands (Aug. 1966; A. Chickering), deposited in MCZ (71407, PBI_ OON 27350 View Materials ) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of S. bicolor but have a basally wider embolus (figs. 711–716); females also resemble those of S. bicolor in having very simple genitalia, but have the median sclerotization situated more anteriorly than in S. bicolor (figs. 725, 726).

MALE (PBI_ OON 27350 View Materials , figs. 704–716): Total length 1.28. Endites with long, oblique, longitudinal ridge. Soft portions of abdominal holotype with anterior and posterior dark areas. Legs without color pattern. Embolus short, basally thickened, retrolateral process curved (figs. 711–716).

FEMALE (PBI_ OON 27350 View Materials , figs. 717– 726): Total length 1.56. Genitalia with ovoid plate bearing anteriorly situated median invagination (figs. 725, 726).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: One female taken with the types.

DISTRIBUTION: Virgin Islands ( Virgin Gorda).