Nopsma Sanchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Bonaldo 2020
Creators: name: Villarreal-Blanco, Eduardo
name: Martínez, Leonel
name: Eyes-Escalante, Melisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Caponiidae
Nopsma

description: Genus Nopsma Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Bonaldo, 2020
Nopsma Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Bonaldo, 2020: 474.
Type species
Nyetnops juchuy Dupérré, 2014 (by original designation).
Diagnosis
See Sánchez-Ruiz et al. (2020)Key for males ofNopsmaSánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Bonaldo, 2020 updated from Sánchez-Ruiz
et al. (2021)
1. Dorsal carapace pattern formed by large spots (Fig. 7A–D) .................................... N. rioja sp. nov.
– Dorsal carapace pattern formed by small black dots (Figs 1A, 4A, 5A) .......................................... 2
2. Large tegulum, reaching or exceeding the palpal tibia length (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2020: figs 11b, 17b) ................................................................................................................................................... 3
– Small tegulum, not reaching the palpal tibia length (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2020: figs 15b, 18b; Figs 2A, 4E, 5E) .............................................................................................................................................. 4
3. Elongated palpal tibia, two times the patella length (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2020: fig. 11b), embolus projecting from the prolateral distal surface of the tegulum with a keel bordering the tip (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2020: figs 11b–c,14a, d–f) ......... N. enriquei Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Bonaldo, 2020
– Short palpal tibia, just a little longer than patella length (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2020: fig. 17b), embolus projecting from the prolateral median surface of the tegulum with three very thin, long projections on the tip (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2020: fig. 17b–c, f) ............................................................................ ................................................................... N. armandoi Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Bonaldo, 2020
4. Embolus protruding anteriorly (Figs 5E–G, 6C–D, 9E–G) ................................. N. putuime sp. nov.
– Embolus protruding distally or posteriorly (Figs 6A–C, 4E–G, 7E–G) ........................................... 5
5. Embolus anteriorly directed (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2021: 386, figs 3c-d, 5c–d) .................................. .................................................................... N. macagual Sánchez-Ruiz, Martínez & Bonaldo, 2021
– Embolus posteriorly directed (Figs 2A–C, 4E–G, 5E–G) ................................................................ 6
6. Embolus with membranous keel restricted to the opening of embolus tip (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2021: fig. 6g –h) ........................................................................................................................................... 7
– Embolus with a membranous keel at the opening, extended proximally towards the embolus shaft (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2021: figs. 6e–f, 4e–g) ..................................................................................... 8
7. Embolus curved, cymbium elongated, more than 4 × as long as wide (Figs 2A–C, 3A–B) .............. .......................................................................................................................... N. miraflores sp. nov.
– Embolus straight, cymbium less than 3.5 × as long as wide (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2021: fig. 4e, g) .. ............................................................................ N. paya Sánchez-Ruiz, Martínez & Bonaldo, 2021
8. Tegulum one-third of the cymbium length (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2020: fig. 15b–d; Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2021: fig. 2c–d) ........................................................................................................................ 9
– Tegulum conspicuously small, only one-fifth the cymbium length (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2020: fig. 18b–c) .................................................. N. florencia Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Bonaldo, 2020
9. Embolus with a membranous keel at the opening long, reaching more than one-third of the embolus shaft (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2021: figs 2c–d, 5e–f) ............................................................................... .......................................................................... N. leticia Sánchez-Ruiz, Martínez & Bonaldo, 2021
– Embolus with a membranous keel at the opening short, reaching only one-fourth or less of the embolus shaft (Sánchez-Ruiz et al. 2020: fig. 15b–d) ............................. N. juchuy (Dupérré, 2014)
description: Published as part of Villarreal-Blanco, Eduardo, Martínez, Leonel & Eyes-Escalante, Melisa, 2025, Four new species of Nopsma Sánchez-Ruiz, Brescovit & Bonaldo, 2020 (Arachnida: Caponiidae) from Peru, pp. 21-37 in European Journal of Taxonomy 981 on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.981.2807, http://zenodo.org/record/15000803