Stenoonops bimini, 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 : 35-40

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scientific name	Stenoonops bimini
status	sp. nov.

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Stenoonops bimini View in CoL , new species Figures 236–258

TYPE: Male holotype taken on South

Bimini , Bahama Islands (May 1951; W. Gertsch, M. Cazier), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 27354) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the two short, twisted branches of the embolus (figs. 243–248), females by the W-shaped anterior genitalic margin (figs. 257, 258).

MALE (PBI_OON 27354, figs. 236–248): Total length 1.20. Elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth; posterior eye row straight from above, procurved from front. Endites with long, oblique longitudinal ridge. Embolus with both dorsal and ventral portions short, twisted (figs. 243–248).

FEMALE (PBI_OON 26488, figs. 249– 258): Total length 1.39. Anterior genitalic projection reaching farther anterior then edges of W-shaped anterior margin (figs. 257, 258).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: WEST INDIES: Bahama Islands: South Bimini, June 1951 (M. Cazier, C., P. Vaurie, AMNH PBI_OON 26488), 1♀.

DISTRIBUTION: Bahama Islands.