Opopaea deserticola Simon 1892
Creators: name: Suzuki, Yuya
name: Hidaka, Ryota
name: Tatsuta, Haruki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Opopaea
Opopaea deserticola

description: Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1892
Fig. 5A–F
Opopaea deserticola Simon, 1892: p.560, pl. 42, fig. 5, female and male syntypes from “Insula Sancti Vincentii” = Saint Vincent Island; not examined.
See the World Spider Catalog (2023) for the complete taxonomic list.
Materials examined. Aogashima Is.: 5 females, Aogashima Village (32° 26’ 51.0756”N, 139° 45’ 35.6718”E), Tokyo, Japan, 12-VII-2019, K. Endo leg. Okinawa Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 female 1 male, Besides Naha Port Facility, Kakinohana Town (26°12’19.8”N, 127°40’04.0”E), Naha City, 26-II-2022, Y. Suzuki leg.; 1 male (NSMTAr 21912), Ōnoyama Town (26°12’11.4”N, 127°40’35.7”E), Naha City, 7-III-2021, Y. Suzuki leg.; 1 female (NSMTAr 21914), Ōgusuku (26°17’09.5”N, 127°48’13.0”E), Kita-nakagusuku Village, Nakagusuku District, 8-III-2020, Y. Suzuki leg. Aka Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 male 1 female, grassland at forest side (26°11’54.5”N, 127°16’55.7”E), Aka, Zamami Village, Shimajiri District, 16-III-2022, Y. Suzuki leg. Kita-daito Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 female, Kita-daito Village, Shimairi District, Okinawa Pref., 18-VI-2005, A. Tanikawa leg. Kume Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 male 2 females, Aka (26°21’48.8”N, 126°47’51.1”E), Kumejima Town, Shimajiri District, 2-XII-2021, Y. Suzuki leg. Miyako Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 2 males 4 females, Ueno-nobaru (24°46’05.9”N, 125°19’23.2”E), Miyakojima City, Japan, 17-XI-2021, Y. Suzuki leg. Kuroshima Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 2 females, grassland at coastal area (24°13’57.7”N, 123°59’50.4”E), Taketomi Town, Yaeyama District, 2-XI-2021, Y. Suzuki leg.; 1 male 1 female, grassland alongside bushes at coastal area (24°14’26.2”N, 123°59’32.7”E), Taketomi Town, Yaeyama District, 2-XI-2021, Y. Suzuki leg. Iriomote Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 1 female, Funaura, Uehara, Taketomi Town, Yaeyama District, 31-III-1989, A. Tanikawa leg. Yonaguni Is. (Okinawa Pref.): 4 females (one female: NSMT-Ar 21913), Yonaguni (24°27’00.9”N, 122°56’07.5”E), Yonaguni Town, Yaeyama District, Okinawa Pref., 15-X-2021, Y. Suzuki leg.
Diagnosis. This species resembles O. concolor (Blackwall, 1859) but can easily distinguished by the position of a dark knob marking on epigastric region: very close to epigastric furrow in O. deserticola while far away from the furrow in O. concolor (Brescovit et al. 2019).
Description. See Saaristo (2001) and Ono (2011) for detailed description.
Distribution: Southeast Asia. Introduced to USA to Panama, Caribbean, Venezuela, Brazil, Canary Is., Middle East, Japan (the Nansei Islands), Pacific Is. Also see Fig. 11 and Table 2 for details of distribution in the Nansei Islands.
Habitat. In Japan, this species was collected from litter layers of various environments, including artificial parks in urban area, grasslands and seashores.
description: Published as part of Suzuki, Yuya, Hidaka, Ryota & Tatsuta, Haruki, 2023, Revision of goblin spiders (Araneae: Oonopidae) in the Nansei Islands, Southwest Japan, with description of a new species, pp. 216-242 in Zootaxa 5323 (2) on pages 226-227, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5323.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/8204188