Hexapopha harveyi Feitosa & Ott & Bonaldo 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Feitosa, Níthomas M.
name: Ott, Ricardo
name: Bonaldo, Alexandre B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Hexapopha
Hexapopha harveyi

description: Hexapopha harveyi sp. nov.   
Figs 2A,C, 14–16; Map 2  
 Type material: Holotype: male from Fazenda Tanguro, Querência, Mato Grosso, Brazil (12º49’47.6”S, 52º27’28.0”W), Jun. 13–20, 2006, D.F. Candiani & N.F. Lo Man Hung leg., deposited in MPEG 15292, PBI_OON 45822. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 1♁ (MPEG 15293, PBI _ OON 45833); 1♁ (MPEG 37880, PBI _ OON 45845); (12º55’53.0”S, 52º26’49.1”W), Jun. 06–13, 2006, 1♀ (MPEG 15285, PBI _ OON 45835); Jun. 16–18, 2006, 2♀ (MPEG 15339, PBI _ OON 46030).   
 Etymology. The specific name is a patronym honoring the arachnologist Mark Harvey (Western Australian   
Museum) recognizing his great contribution to the Goblin Spiders PBI.  
 Diagnosis. Males differ from those of other species with long endite’s P1 (reaching at least the anterior margin of the sternum) (H. fannesi sp. nov., H. erebai sp. nov., H. periclitata sp. nov., H. delta sp.) by the very elongated endite’s P1, reaching the middle of the sternum (Figs 14F, 16A) (shorter, not reaching the middle of the sternum in other species). Females are similar to those of H. peba sp. nov. and H. periclitata sp. nov. by the postepigastric scape separated from the postepigastric plate but can be recognized by the postepigastric scape located near the spinnerets (Figs 16H–I) (not surpassing the middle of the postepigastric scutum in H. peba sp. nov. and H. periclitata sp. nov.).   
 Description. Male (PBI_OON 45822). Total length 1.60. CEPHALOTHORAX: Carapace orange-brown, with Coxapopha -like pattern, pars cephalica with two posterior humps in lateral view, surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth, sides scaly, fovea present (Figs 14B–D). Eyes ALE oval, PME circular, PLE oval; posterior eye row straight from both above and front; ALE separated by their radius to diameter, ALE-PLE separated by less than ALE radius, PME touching, PLE-PME separated by less than PME radius (Fig. 14E). Sternum as long as wide, pale orange, median concavity absent, with radial furrows between coxae I–II, II–III, III–IV, furrow smooth, radial furrow opposite coxae III absent, surface smooth, without pits, microsculpture everywhere but front, prosoma pedicelar region with process; with vestigial sclerotized triangle in male (Figs 16 BA–B). Mouthparts: Chelicerae distal region unmodified (Fig. 14E). Labium anterior margin anteriorly projecting at middle, as long as wide (Fig. 16B). Endites with a median projection (mp), a P1 and a P2; mp very short, inconspicuous; P1 hornlike, situated posteriorly to mp, anterior margin serrated. P2 lamellar, situated anteriorly to mp, margin serrated (Figs 14F, 16A–D). ABDOMEN: dorsum soft portions pale orange. Book lung covers small, very narrow. Dorsal scutum pale orange, covering full length of abdomen, no soft tissue visible from above. Epigastric scutum not protruding. Postepigastric scutum pale orange, long, semicircular, covering nearly full length of abdominal length (Figs 14A–B,G). LEGS: yellow. GENITALIA: Epigastric region with sperm pore situated posteriorly in relation to posterior spiracles. Palp proximal segments yellow; embolus tip flattened, not bent upwards; conductor present, without projections, longer than embolus, broader at base (Figs 14G–I, 16E–G).   
 Female (PBI_OON 46030). As in male except as noted. Total length 1.57. CEPHALOTHORAX: Carapace without any pattern, pars cephalica strongly elevated in lateral view (Figs 15B–C). Eyes posterior eye row recurved from above; PME separated by less than their radius (Fig. 15E). Sternum microsculpture medially and in furrows (Fig. 15D). Mouthparts: Chelicerae, endites and labium pale orange. Labium rectangular, anterior margin not indented at middle (Fig. 15D). GENITALIA: Ventral view: postepigastric plate large, reaching the middle of the abdomen; postepigastric scape present, separated from the postepigastric plate, located at the posterior part of the postepigastric scutum, near the spinnerets; copulatory orifice slit-shaped, very narrow, measuring almost 2/3 of the postepigastric plate size. Dorsal view: anterior genitalic process with straight arms (Figs 15G–H, 16H–L).   
 Other material examined.  Brazil. Mato Grosso. Querência:  Fazenda Tanguro (12º49’55.0”S, 52º20’21.6”W), Jun. 02–04, 2006, 2♀ (MPEG 15329, PBI _ OON 46021); 1♀ (MPEG 1533 PBI _ OON 46033); (12º53’28.04”S, 52º22’25.0”W), Jun. 07–14, 2006, 1♀ (MPEG 15294, PBI _ OON 45873); 1♀ (MPEG 37881, PBI _ OON 46058).   
 Distribution. Known only from type locality, Querência, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil (Map 2).
description: Published as part of Feitosa, Níthomas M., Ott, Ricardo & Bonaldo, Alexandre B., 2023, Meeting the southern brothers: a revision of the Neotropical spider genus Hexapopha Platnick, Berniker & Víquez, 2014 (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 5329 (1) on pages 28-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5329.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8244009