The Goblin Spider Genus Scaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae)

Platnick, Norman I.; Dupérré, Nadine

doi:10.1206/700.1

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“…In three of those cases, the relevant type species have since been shown to be pantropical taxa that are probably of Old World origin, rather than native to St. Vincent: Pelicinus Simon (see Platnick et al, 2012b), Opopaea Simon (see Platnick and Dupérré, 2009), and Triaeris Simon (see Platnick et al, 2012c). In the present paper we argue that the same is true for a fourth genus, described initially as Ischnaspis Simon, a preoccupied name that was quickly replaced by Ischnothyreus Simon (1893a).…”

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confidence: 49%

The Goblin Spider GenusIschnothyreus(Araneae, Oonopidae) in the New World

Platnick

Berniker

Kranz-Baltensperger

2012

American Museum Novitates

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The Goblin Spider GenusIschnothyreus(Araneae, Oonopidae) in the New World

Platnick

Berniker

Kranz-Baltensperger

2012

American Museum Novitates

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“…A total of 28 species are known from the northern part of the generic range, from Mexico south to Nicaragua (Platnick and Dupérré, 2012), but that fauna is dwarfed by the diversity found within Costa Rica alone. The present paper, the eighth in a series on the Dysderina complex, documents the remarkable radiation of microdistributed Costarina species found in Costa Rica.…”

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The Goblin Spider GenusCostarina(Araneae, Oonopidae), Part 2: the Costa Rican Fauna

Platnick

Berniker

Víquez

2014

American Museum Novitates

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The type species of Costarina, C. plena (O. P.-Cambridge), is widely distributed, occurring from southern Mexico to southern Costa Rica, but Costa Rica also houses an extraordinarily large fauna of endemic, less widely distributed Costarina species. In addition to the two previously described species, C. meridina (Chickering, the female of which is newly described) and C. watina (Chickering), 49 new endemic species are described: C. paraplena, superplena, maritza, cima, elena, monte, murphyorum, chiles, upala, poas, selva, viejo, rafael, azul, carara, nara, aguirre, quepos, carrillo, ramon, isidro, san, cuerici, leones, junio, reventazon, macho, cruz, chonta, barbilla, espavel, veragua, pity, penshurst, hitoy, mooreorum, cerere, frantzius, gemelo, pittier, alturas, cruces, ubicki, palmar, parabio, semibio, jimenez, parapalmar, and osa. Two other species also occur in Costa Rica. Costarina concinna (Chickering) is placed as the male (and hence a senior synonym) of C. potena (Chickering), both of which were described from Volcán, Panama; the species appears to be a relatively widespread, southern vicariant of C. plena. The Panamanian species C. obtina (Chickering) is also newly recorded from Costa Rica, and its female is described for the first time.

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“…25, 26), although not as conspicuously as in S. bodanus. Interestingly, false claws are also present in Triaeris, as reported by Platnick et al (2013c), as well as in other putatively unrelated genera, such as the Asian Aprusia Simon (see Grismado et al, 2011), the Malagasy Malagiella Ubick and Griswold (see Ubick and Griswold, 2011) and the Neotropical Ischnothyreus Simon (Platnick et al, 2012c). …”

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High resolution images for Simlops, a new genus of goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae) from northern South America. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 388)

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Ruiz²,

Brescovit³

et al. 2014

American Museum of Natural History Research Library

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A new genus of goblin spiders, Simlops, is proposed for 15 species found in Brazilian and Colombian Amazonia and southern Caribbean (Venezuela and Guyana). The new genus belongs to the Scaphiella complex, a group of Neotropical genera that share a sexually dimorphic condition in which the abdominal dorsal scutum is present in males but absent in females. Simlops is hypothesized to be a monophyletic group united by a unique conformation of the male endites, which present three apical portions, a prolateral, curved process, with laminar apices, a retrolateral process and a median, more dorsal, unsclerotized portion. The species Triaeris bodanus Chickering, 1968, is transferred to Simlops and the female of this species is described for the first time. The remaining 14 species are newly described:

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The Goblin Spider Genus Scaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae)

Cited by 68 publications

References 5 publications

The Goblin Spider GenusIschnothyreus(Araneae, Oonopidae) in the New World

The Goblin Spider GenusIschnothyreus(Araneae, Oonopidae) in the New World

The Goblin Spider GenusCostarina(Araneae, Oonopidae), Part 2: the Costa Rican Fauna

High resolution images for Simlops, a new genus of goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae) from northern South America. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 388)

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