The neotropical goblin spiders of the new genus Varioonops (Araneae, Oonopidae)

Title Variants

Alternative: Varioonops

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3791

By

Bolzern, Angelo, 1978-

Platnick, Norman I.
Goblin Spider Planetary Biodiversity Inventory.

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Book

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Published material

Publication info

New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, [2013], ©2013

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"December 11, 2013."

Part of the oonopid PBI project. (Introduction)

A new genus, Varioonops, is established for a group of species characterized by sexual dimorphism in abdomen morphology (with a dorsal scutum present in males but not females), male palps with a separate cymbium and bulb, and a patterned abdomen. The closest relatives of the new genus appear to be three similar, but as yet undescribed, Neotropical genera that share those characters, but the members of Varioonops are united by a putative synapomorphy that does not seem to occur in those undescribed groups: a granulated sternum. Attention is drawn to the cymbial cone, a structure (possibly a receptor) found near the tip of the cymbium in Varioonops, members of the Orchestininae, and at least some soft-bodied members of the Oonopinae. A total of 23 new species are described: V. cafista (the type species), V. velsala, V. montesta, V. spatharum, V. poas, V. varablanca, V. tortuguero, V. veragua, V. heredia, and V. girven from Costa Rica, V. ramila and V. sansidro from Costa Rica and Panama, V. funator and V. cerrado from Panama, V. edvardi and V. sinesama from Colombia, and V. yacambu, V. trujillo, V. pittieri, V. chordio, V. parlata, V. potaguo, and V. grancho from Venezuela.

Subjects

Arachnida , Classification , Latin America , Oonopidae , Spiders , Varioonops

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3791 2013

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 865011149