Scaphioides cletus
Creators: name: Platnick, Norman I.
name: Berniker, Lily
name: Kranz-Baltensperger, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Scaphioides
Scaphioides cletus

description: Scaphioides cletus (Chickering)   Figures 168–177  
 Stenoonops cletus Chickering, 1969a: 3, figs. 1–6 (male holotype from 3 miles east of May Pen, St. Catherine Par., Jamaica, in MCZ; examined).   
 Scaphioides cletus: Platnick and Dupérré, 2010: 9.   
 DIAGNOSIS: Member of this species resemble those of S. halatus in having only a few, pinpoint-shaped depressions on the sternum (figs. 169, 170), but have a long projection on the proximal lobe of the embolus (figs. 171, 172) and a widened tip on the anterior genitalic process (figs. 176, 177).   
MALE (PBI_OON 26440, figs. 168, 169, 171–174): Total length 1.40. Elevated portion of pars cephalica strongly reticulate, posterior margin with U-shaped band of tubercles, sides strongly reticulate. ALE separated by less than their radius. Sternum surface finely punctuate, without pits, microsculpture covering entire surface, furrows smooth, anterior margin with continuous transverse groove. Endite tip with rounded, posteriorly directed projection. Proximal portion of embolus with scoop-shaped tip.  
FEMALE (PBI_OON 21001, figs. 170, 175–177): Total length 1.52. Anterior genitalic process bulbous anteriorly, situated on strongly arched base.  
 MATERIAL EXAMINED: WEST INDIES: Jamaica: Manchester: Mandeville, Apr. 14, 1959 (Sanderson, AMNH PBI_OON 21001), 2♀. St. Andrew: Hardwar Gap, Dec. 6, 1954 (A. Nadler, MCZ 71993, PBI_OON 26440), 1♂; Hermitage Reservoir, Nov. 26, 1957 (A. Chickering, MCZ 68231, PBI_OON 349), 1♂; Jack’s Hill Road, Dec. 6, 1957 (A. Chickering, MCZ 83730, PBI_OON 356), 1♂, 1♀; NE edge Kingston, May 8, 1956, small dead limbs on ground (C. Hoff, MCZ 83744, PBI_OON 348), 1♀; 14 mi E Kingston, Nov. 19, 1963 (A. Chickering, MCZ 72088, PBI_OON 26439), 1♂, 2♀; NE slope, Long Mountain, May 5, 1956, dry acacia litter (C. Hoff, MCZ 83742), PBI_OON 350), 1♂, 3♀; NW part, Long Mountain, May 8, 1956, ground litter under agave (C. Hoff, MCZ 83745, PBI_OON 355), 1♀; 9–10 mi W on Red Hills Road, Oct. 28, 1957 (AMNH PBI_OON 21002), 1♂; Ferry, 1 mi W Red Hills Road, Sept. 27, 1957 (A. Chickering, MCZ 83733, PBI_OON 347), 1♂, 1♀; Richards Reservoir, Dec. 3, 1957 (A. Chickering, MCZ 83839, PBI_OON 353), 1♂. St. Ann: entrance to Mount Diablo Forest, Nov. 6, 1963 (A. Chickering, MCZ 72089, PBI_OON 26491), 1♂. St. Catherine: Evarton, Nov. 29. 1957 (A. Chickering, MCZ 83738, PBI_ OON 345), 1♀; Guanaboa Vale, Nov. 28, 1957 (A. Chickering, MCZ 83731, PBI_OON 351), 1♀; 3 mi E May Pen, Nov. 22, 1957 (A. Chickering, MCZ PBI_OON 342), 1♂, 1♀ (holotype, paratype), same (A. Chickering, MCZ 83737, PBI_OON 352), 3♂, 1♀; Innswood Estate, Nov. 10, 1963 (A. Chickering, MCZ 83732, PBI_OON 344), 2♂. St. Thomas: Actreat, July 13, 1954 (Bellinger, MCZ 83740, PBI_OON 346), 1♀; Lysson, June 28, 1954 (A. Chickering, MCZ 83734, PBI_OON 354), 1♀. Trelawny: 7 mi S Falmouth, May 12, 1956 (C. Hoff, MCZ 83741, PBI_OON 343), 1♂, 2♀.   
DISTRIBUTION: Jamaica.
description: Published as part of Platnick, Norman I., Berniker, Lily & Kranz-Baltensperger, Yvonne, 2012, The Caribbean Goblin Spider Genera Scaphioides and Hortoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), pp. 1-64 in American Museum Novitates 2012 (3751) on pages 31-32, DOI: 10.1206/3759.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5360563