Simonoonops soltina (Chickering) Platnick & Dupérré 2011
- Dataset
- The Goblin Spider Genus Simonoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine (2011): The Goblin Spider Genus Simonoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae). American Museum Novitates 2011 (3724): 1-32, DOI: 10.1206/3712.2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3712.2
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Oonopidae
- genus
- Simonoonops
- species
- Simonoonops soltina
description
Figures 153 – 167
description
MALE (PBI _ OON 669, figs. 153 – 161): Total length 1.80. Posterior half of pars cephalica with pair of elongate, oval, paramedian light areas, surface of anterior portion granulate, posterior portion smooth. Chilum small, rectangular. Endites with ventral process long, narrow, tip pointed toward dorsal process. All femora darkened. Leg spination: femora: I p 0 - 0 - 2, r 0 - 1 - 0, II p 0 - 0 - 1; tibiae: I v 4 - 4 - 0, II v 4 - 3 - 0; metatarsi: I v 2 - 2 - 1 p, II v 2 - 2 - 0. Embolus short, with broad, triangular base, conductor set at oblique angle, expanded at tip. FEMALE (PBI _ OON 672, figs. 162 – 167): Total length 2.08. Surface of posterior portion of pars cephalica with U-shaped smooth area surrounding reticulate median area. Leg spination: femora: I p 0 - 0 - 2, r 0 - 2 - 1, II p 0 - 0 - 2; r 0 - 2 - 0; tibiae I, II v 4 - 4 - 1 p; metatarsi I, II v 2 - 2 - 1 p. Atrium oval, posterior margin appears thickened because of heavily sclerotized transverse bar connecting apodemes; atrium almost filled with oval sclerotization, with long, narrow, anterior genitalic process visible through sclerotization.
diagnosis
DIAGNOSIS: Males can be recognized by the straight, distally expanded palpal conductor (figs. 158 – 161), females by the thick, heavily sclerotized transverse bar connecting the genitalic apodemes (figs. 165 – 167).
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Windward Islands (Saint Vincent). SYNONYMY: As discussed in the Introduction, we hypothesize that Chickering’s D. zinona is the female of D. soltina.
materials_examined
MATERIAL EXAMINED: Windward Islands: Saint Vincent: no specific locality (BMNH PBI _ OON 668, plus holotype of Dysderina soltina, BMNH PBI _ OON 669, these specimens originally misidentified as Dysderina principalis by Simon, 1891), 6 ♂, 1 ♀, (MNHN 5765, PBI _ OON 4738, originally misidentified as Dysderina principalis by Simon, 1891), 2 ♀, (MNHN PBI _ OON 670, misidentified as Dysderina princeps by Simon, 1893 a), 1 ♂. Mt. Soufriere, Jan. 6, 1965 (R. Bell, MCZ PBI 672), 1 ♀ (holotype).