Reductoonops yasuni, Platnick & Berniker, 2014

Platnick, Norman I. & Berniker, Lily, 2014, ffle Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genus Reductoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2014 (3811), pp. 1-75 : 72

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1206/3811.1

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scientific name

Reductoonops yasuni
status

new species

Reductoonops yasuni , new species ( figs. 1–96)

TYPES: Male holotype from leaf litter taken at an elevation of 200 m in the Estación Científica Yasuni , Río Tiputini, 0.67111°S, 76.4002°W, Orellana, Ecuador (Dec. 1, 2009; Niarchos Exped. ), deposited in QCAZ (PBI_OON 892) GoogleMaps .

DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the bipartite conductor ( figs. 35–38), females by the spear-shaped tip of the anterior genitalic process ( figs. 53, 54).

MALE (PBI_OON 891, figs. 1–44, 46–51): Total length 0.84. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Eyes two; ALE touching. Sternum with anterior channels, surface finely striated, without pits, microsculpture absent; setae densest laterally. Labium anterior margin deeply incised. Endite tip with rounded, posteriorly directed lobe. Cymbium not fused with bulb.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 891, figs. 45, 52–96): Total length 1.13. Anterior genitalic process long, relatively wide, originating from bowl-shaped sclerite.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: ECUADOR: Orellana: Estación Científica Yasuni, Río Tiputini , 0.67111°S, 76.4002°W, Dec. 1, 2009, leaf litter, elev. 200 m ( Niarchos Exped., AMNH PBI _OON 893), 1♀ GoogleMaps , 0.067428°S, 76.39764°W, Dec. 1–5, 2009, Berlese, litter, humid forest, elev. 295 m (M. Ramírez, Niarchos Exped., MACN PBI _OON 886–889, 891, 894–896, 49575, 49576), 13♂, 14♀; 1 km S Onkone Gare Camp , 00°39′25.7″S, 76°27′10.8″W, Reserva Etnica Waorani, Oct. 4, 1995, elev. 216 m (T. Erwin et al. USNM PBI_ OON 37077 View Materials ), 1♂ GoogleMaps , June 22, 1996 (same, USNM PBI_ OON 37078 View Materials ), 1♂ ; Parque Nacional Yasuni , 00°40′16″S, 76°24′18″W, Dec. 1–5, 2009, pitfall, elev. 230 m (B. Baehr, Niarchos Exped., AMNH PBI _OON 890), 1♂ GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION: Ecuador (Orellana).

QCAZ

Museo de Zoologia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Reductoonops