Ponsoonops boquete, Bolzern, 2014

Bolzern, Angelo, 2014, The Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genera Ponsoonops and Bipoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), American Museum Novitates 2014 (3803), pp. 1-1 : 1-

Ponsoonops boquete , new species

Figures 199–213

NOTE: Males and females have not been collected together, show some somatic differences (e.g., leg spination), and may be mismatched.

TYPE: Male holotype from a Berlese sample of concentrated forest floor litter taken at an elevation of 1722 m at a site at “Barca Area” at Finca Lérida near Boquete, Chiriquí, Panama (Mar. 15, 1959, H.S. Dybas), deposited in FMNH (56547 PBI_OON 10765) .

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

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of P. lerida , P. panto , and P. vuena in having an embolus with a median protrusion, and a narrowed, distinctly elongated embolus tip (fig. 208). They differ from P. lerida and P.panto in having a distally pointed conductor that is longer than the embolus (rather than truncated or with short narrow projections and shorter), and from P. vuena in having a narrow conductor base, a relatively narrow embolus, and a ridge-shaped median protrusion (rather than a broad conductor base and embolus, and a mound-shaped median protrusion). Females resemble those of P. bollo and P. vuena in having a narrow, longstalked anterior genitalic process with enlarged apex (fig. 213). They differ from P. bollo in having distinct, long, filiform glands at the base of the anterior genitalic process, reaching almost to the enlarged part (rather than short ones), and from P. vuena in the absence of distinctly long protruding glands at the posterior genitalic process (rather than present).

MALE (PBI_OON 10765, figs. 199–209): Total length 1.39. Leg spination: tibiae: I v4-2-2; II v4-2-1p; IV p0-1-0, v1-0-2, r0-1-0; metatarsi: I v2-2-2; II p1-0-0, v2-2-2; IV p0-1-0. Sperm pore circular. Tarsal organ on palpal cymbium with distal receptor appearing bifid. Embolus tube shaped, longitudinally folded, with ventral slit and prolateral opening, midway with dorsoprolateral elevated ridge, embolus tip moderately narrowed, elongated, opening rebordered, retrolaterally platelike with indistinct, ventral protrusion; conductor originates at embolus base, narrow, lamelliform, elongated, midway twisted, tip simple, pointed, longer than embolus.

FEMALE (PBI_OON 49195, figs. 210–213): Total length 1.68. Leg spination: tibiae: I p1-1-0, v4-2-2; II p0-1-0, v4-2-2; IV p0-1-0, v1-0-2, r0-1-0; metatarsi: I, II p1-0-0, v2-2-2; IV p1-1-0. Large genital plate moderately W-shaped, median protruding part wider than long; anterior genitalic process narrow, long stalked, apex distinctly enlarged; cluster of few, long, filiform glands present at base of anterior genitalic process; posterior genitalic process pocketlike, without remarkable duct, weakly sclerotized.

Figures

FIGURES 199–213. Ponsoonops boquete, new species, male (199–209) and female (210–213). 199. Habitus, dorsal view. 200. Carapace, anterior view. 201. Sternum, ventral view. 202. Abdomen, anterior view. 203. Abdomen, ventral view. 204. Tarsal organ, palp, dorsolateral view. 205. Palp, prolateral view. 206. Same, dorsal view. 207. Same, retrolateral view. 208. Embolus and conductor, dorsal view. 209. Embolus tip, prolateral view. 210. Carapace, dorsal view. 211. Abdomen, dorsal view. 212. Same, ventral view. 213. Genitalia, dorsal view.