The goblin spider genus Simonoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae)

Title Variants

Alternative: Simonoonops

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Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3724

By

Platnick, Norman I.

Dupérré, N. (Nadine),

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

[New York], American Museum of Natural History, c2011

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Caption title.

"October 27, 2011."

The goblin spider genus Simonoonops Harvey has been known only from its Venezuelan type species, but the group occurs also in Guyana and the Lesser Antilles. Most of its members have been misplaced in the genus Dysderina Simon; D. princeps Simon, D. spinigera Simon, D. craneae Chickering, D. globina Chickering, D. soltina Chickering, and D. zinona Chickering are transferred to Simonoonops. Members of Simonoonops resemble those of Dysderina in having three transverse ridges on the sternum, but differ in lacking a groove connecting the anterior spiracles and having a more complex embolic region on the male palp. Two specific names are newly synonymized: S. orghidani (Dumitrescu and Georgescu) with S. craneae, and S. zinona with S. soltina. Six new species are described: S. simoni, S. grande, and S. andersoni from Venezuela, S. lutzi from Guyana, S. etang from Grenada, and S. chickeringi from Saint Vincent.

Subjects

Arachnida , Classification , Grenadines (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and G , Guyana , Oonopidae , Simonoonops , Spiders , Venezuela

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3724 2011

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 759172698