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

new species

Reductoonops nubes , new species ( figs. 184–188)

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).

MALE: Unknown.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 1469, figs. 184–188): 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).

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Reductoonops