The Brazilian goblin spiders of the new genus Guaraguaoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae)

Title Variants

Alternative: Guaraguaoonops

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3735

By

Brescovit, Antonio D.
Rheims, Cristina A.
Bonaldo, Alexandre B. (Alexandre Bragio)
Santos, Adalberto J. (Adalberto José)
Ott, Ricardo

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

[New York], American Museum of Natural History, c2012

Notes

Caption title.

"February 29, 2012."

A new endemic goblin spider genus Guaraguaoonops is erected to include two new soft-bodied oonopid species from Brazil: the type species, G. hemhem, distributed in the states of Maranhão, Piauí, and Ceará, and G. humbom, known only from Piauí. These spiders are unique among oonopids and easily diagnosed by the flattened carapace with a porrect clypeus, modified lateral setae on the carapace in both sexes, and male with a sinuous, flattened distal cheliceral projection and palp with ventral conical tegular projection. These species probably occupy a soil cryptic habit and are found in dry sand of "cerrado" areas in northeastern Brazil.

Subjects

Arachnida , Brazil, Northeast , Classification , Guaraguaoonops , Guaraguaoonops hemhem , Guaraguaoonops humbom , Oonopidae , Spiders

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3735 2012

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 778789905