Reductoonops nubes, 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 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/3811.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4597853
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scientific name	Reductoonops nubes
status	sp. nov.

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Reductoonops nubes View in CoL , new species ( figs. 184–188 View FIGURES 176–188. 176–183 )

TYPE: Female holotype from Berlese sample of litter taken in a coffee grove at an elevation of 5800 ft at Las Nubes, Volcán de Tacana , Chiapas, Mexico (Aug. 6, 1950; C., M. Goodnight), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 1447) .

DIAGNOSIS: fflese females have two eyes (separating them from R. chamela , R. armeria , and R. niltepec , which have six eyes, and from R. jabin , which lack eyes) and anterior sternal channels (separating them from R. real ). ffle anterior genitalic process is long and greatly narrowed anteriorly ( figs. 187, 188 View FIGURES 176–188. 176–183 ).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 1469, figs. 184–188 View FIGURES 176–188. 176–183 ): Total length 1.46. Surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth. Eyes two; ALE touching. Sternum with anterior channels, surface smooth, microsculpture absent, setae densest laterally. Labium anterior margin indented at middle. Anterior genitalic projection unipartite, basally ovoid, distally narrowed.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: MEXICO: Chiapas: Cacahuatán, Las Nubes, Aug. 6, 1950, Berlese , coffee area, elev. 5800 ft (C., M. Goodnight, AMNH PBI_OON 1675), 1♀ (without abdomen, so genitalia not examined) ; Unión Juárez , Aug. 11, 1950 (C., M. Goodnight, AMNH PBI_OON 1469), 1♀ .

DISTRIBUTION: Mexico (Chiapas).

Figures

FIGURES 176–188. 176–183. Reductoonops real, new species, male (176) and female (177–183). 184–188. R. nubes, new species, female. 176, 177, 184. Sternum, ventral view. 178, 185. Abdomen, ventral view. 179. Carapace, anterior view. 180. Eye group, anterior view. 181. Spinnerets, posterior view. 182, 187. Genitalia, ventral view. 183, 188. Same, dorsal view. 186. Epigastric area, ventral view.