Hexapopha baehrae 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 baehrae

description: Hexapopha baehrae sp. nov.   
Figs 61–63; Map 4  
 Type material: Holotype: male from Estaç „o de Pesquisa Agropecuária – FEPAGRO, Viam„o, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (30°02’17.04”S, 51°01’20.66”W), Apr. 12, 1995, R. Ott leg., deposited in MCTP, PBI_OON 40585. Paratypes: same data and collector as holotype, 1♁, 3♀ (MCTP 8554, PBI _ OON 46377); Jan. 12, 1996, 1♀ (MCN 56852, PBI _ OON 46372).   
 Etymology. The specific name is a patronym honoring the arachnologist Barbara Baeher (Queensland Museum), recognizing her great contribution to the Goblin Spiders PBI.   
 Diagnosis. Males of this species resemble those of H. excavata sp. nov. and H. numerosa sp. nov. by the conductor nearly the same size of the embolus, without proximal projection and with single tip, endite’s P1 longitudinally oriented, not folded over itself, and by the absence of endite’s P3 (Figs 60C,H, 66C,H); they can be distinguished from those of H. numerosa sp. nov. by endite’s P1 directed posteriorly (Fig. 63C) (directed anteriorly in H. numerosa sp. nov.) and from those of H. excavata sp. nov. by the endite’s P2 represented by a large bent plate (Fig. 63C) (a small acute process in H. excavata sp. nov.) Females differ from those of other species with U-shaped postepigastric scape fused to a broad postepigastric plate (longer than wider or nearly as long as wide) (H. una sp. nov., H. brasiliana (Bristowe) and H. hone Platnick, Berniker & Víquez, Figs 7G–H, 68G–H; Platnick et al., 2014, figs 85–86) as follows: from H. una sp. nov. by the genital duct narrow, situated on the anterior portion of the postepigastric plate (wide, almost reaching the posterior portioin of postepigastric plate in H. una sp. nov.); from H. brasiliana by the curved arms of T-shaped genitalic process (straight in H. brasiliana) and from H. hone by the procurved arms of T-shaped genitalic process (recurved in from H. hone) (Figs 62F–H).   
 Description. Male (PBI_OON 40585). Total length 1.69. CEPHALOTHORAX: Carapace dark red-brown, with Coxapopha -like pattern, pars cephalica with two posterior humps in lateral view, surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth, sides granulate, fovea absent (Figs 61B–C). Eyes ALE circular, PME circular, PLE oval; posterior eye row recurved from above, procurved from front; ALE separated by more than their diameter, ALE-PLE separated by less than ALE radius, PME touching for less than half their length, PLE-PME separated by less than PME radius (Fig. 61E). Sternum longer than wide, orange-brown, median concavity absent, with radial furrows between coxae I–II, II–III, III–IV, furrow with rows of small pits, radial furrow opposite coxae III absent, surface finely reticulate, without pits, microsculpture absent (Figs 61D, 62A). Mouthparts: Chelicerae distal region unmodified (Fig. 61E). Labium anterior margin anteriorly projecting at middle, wider than long (Fig. 63C). Endites with a median projection (mp), a P1 and a P2; mp short, directed anteriorly; P1 hornlike, tip flattened, situated posteriorly to P2, directed posteriorly to mp. P2 lamellar, bent downwards, situated anteriorly to P1 (Figs 61F, 63B–C). ABDOMEN: dorsum soft portions pale orange. Book lung covers small, very narrow. Dorsal scutum orange-brown, covering full length of abdomen, no soft tissue visible from above. Epigastric scutum not protruding. Postepigastric scutum orange-brown, almost semicircular, covering nearly full length of abdominal length (Figs 61B,G). LEGS: pale orange. GENITALIA: Epigastric region with sperm pore situated at level of posterior spiracles. Palp proximal segments pale orange; embolus tip flattened, not bent upwards; conductor present, without projections, as long as embolus, tip flattened, its tip bent upwards at an angle of almost 45° (Figs 61G–I, 63F–I).   
 Female (PBI_OON 46372). As in male except as noted. Total length 1.86. CEPHALOTHORAX: Carapace without any pattern, pars cephalica strongly elevated in lateral view (Fig. 62B). Mouthparts: Chelicerae, endites and labium orange-brown. Labium rectangular, anterior margin not indented at middle (Fig. 62D). ABDOMEN: Dorsal scutum covering more than 3/4 of abdomen. Postepigastric scutum covering about 3/4 of abdominal length (Figs 62A–B,F). GENITALIA: Ventral view: postepigastric plate tongue-shaped; postepigastric scape present; copulatory orifice slit shaped, situated on the anterior margin of postepigastric plate. Dorsal view: anterior genitalic process with small, procurved arms; genital duct coiled; the anterior uterine sclerite has a slit-shaped opening in anterior surface (Figs 62G–H, 63J–L).   
 Other material examined.  Brazil. Rio Grande do Sul. Santa Cruz do Sul : Linha Nova (29°38’19.70”S, 52°23’19.89”W), Aug. 21, 1994, R. Ott leg., 1♁ (MCN 9063, PBI _ OON 46371); 2♁, 5♀ (MCTP 9063, PBI _ OON 44166); Aug. 28, 1995, 1♁ (MCN 56853, PBI _ OON 46381); Nov. 20, 1994, 1♁, 4♀ (MCTP 9067, PBI _ OON 44506).   
 Distribution. Known from Viam„o and Santa Cruz do Sul, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Map 4).
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 94-97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5329.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8244009