Hexapopha, Platnick & Berniker & Víquez, 2014

Platnick, Norman I., Berniker, Lily & Víquez, Carlos, 2014, A New Goblin Spider Genus of the Zyngoonops Group from Costa Rica, With Notes on Coxapopha (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2014 (3820), pp. 1-1 : 1-

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1206/3794.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5460145

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scientific name

Hexapopha
status

gen. nov.

Hexapopha View in CoL , new genus

TYPE SPECIES: Xestaspis reimoseri Fage (1938) .

ETYMOLOGY: The generic name refers to the presence of six eyes and the similarities to Coxapopha , and is feminine in gender.

DIAGNOSIS: These spiders are easily recognized as members of the Zyngoonops group of genera by the heavily sclerotized endites of males (figs. 49, 79, 114). The combined presence of six eyes, a palpal conductor in males, and a female epigastric region without an external orifice or scape distinguishes these species from those of the other described genera of the group. Additional differences from Zyngoonops , Antoonops , and Coxapopha are discussed in the Introduction.

Fage, L. 1938. Quelques arachnides provenant de fourmilieres ou de termitieres du Costa Rica. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris (2) 10: 369 - 376.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae