Neotrops santamarta Grismado & Ramírez 2013, new species
Creators: name: Grismado, Cristian J.
name: Ramírez, Martín J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Neotrops
Neotrops santamarta

description: Neotrops santamarta, new species
Figures 97, 99E; map 10
TYPE: Female holotype from Colombia: La Guajira: San Pedro to Cuchilla Cebolleta, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Feb. 28, 1975, J. Kochalka, 1♀ (AMNH PBI _ OON 37061). Deposited in AMNH.
ETYMOLOGY: This specific epithet is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
DIAGNOSIS: Females of N. santamarta are recognized by the large, nearly cylindrical anterior receptacle apparently fused to the shortened and thickened transverse basal ridges (fig. 99E).
DESCRIPTION: FEMALE (holotype, PBI_ OON 37061). Total length 2.49. Cephalothorax: Carapace pale orange, broadly oval in dorsal view, pars cephalica strongly elevated in lateral view, anteriorly narrowed to less than half their maximum width, with eight radial bands slightly darker than the color background (fig. 97D); lateral margin straight; nonmarginal pars cephalica setae absent; nonmarginal pars thoracica setae absent; marginal setae absent. Clypeus setae absent. Eyes all subequal, all eyes circular; posterior eye row straight from front; ALE separated by more than their diameter, ALE-PLE separated by less than ALE radius, PME touching throughout most of their length, PLE-PME separated by less than PME radius. Sternum longer than wide, yellow-brown, anterior margin unmodified, posterior margin not extending posteriorly of coxae IV, precoxal triangles present; setae sparse, light, evenly scattered. Mouthparts: chelicerae, endites, and labium pale orange; cheliceral setae light. Labium elongated hexagon, anterior margin not indented at middle; with six or more setae on anterior margin. Palp spines absent. Abdomen: Dorsum gray. Book lung covers elliptical. Postepigastric scutum pale orange. Spinneret scutum absent. Dorsum setae light, needle-like, most broken off. Postepigastric area setae absent. Colulus represented only by setae. Legs: Yellow-brown; femur IV not thickened, same size as femora I–III, patella plus tibia I nearly as long as carapace. Leg spination: leg I: tibiae v2-2-2-2-2-1(vr)-0, metatarsi v2-2-2- 2; leg II: tibiae v2-2-2-2-2-1(vr)-0, metatarsi v2-2-2-2; leg III: tibiae d1, v1-1ap, metatarsi d1, v1; leg IV: tibiae d1, v1-1ap; metatarsi d1. Trichobothria not examined. Genitalia (figs. 97H, 99E): Anterior receptacle cylindrical, long (surpassing posterodorsal plate), bearing numerous pores (presumably connected to glands); apex rounded, base sclerotized and apparently fused with the basal transverse ridges; uterus externus with longitudinal, narrow opening.
MALE: Unknown.
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
DISTRIBUTION: Only known from the type locality, in La Guajira Department, Colombia (map 10).
description: Published as part of Grismado, Cristian J. & Ramírez, Martín J., 2013, The New World Goblin Spiders Of The New Genus Neotrops (Araneae: Oonopidae), Part 1, pp. 1-150 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (383) on pages 125-128, DOI: 10.1206/819.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5404446