Hexapopha rheimsae 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 rheimsae

description: Hexapopha rheimsae sp. nov.   
Figs 35–36; Map 5  
 Type material: Holotype: male from Estaç „o Ecológica do Una, Una, Bahia, Brazil (14º48’S, 39º02’W / 15º17’48”S, 39º04’28”W), Oct, 1999– Sept. 2000, M.F. Dias leg., 1♁, deposited in IBSP 64295, PBI_OON 51542. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 1♁ (IBSP 64282, PBI _ OON 51532); 1♁ (IBSP 64281, PBI _ OON 51551).   
 Etymology. The specific name is a patronym honoring the arachnologist Cristina Anne Rheims (IBSP), recognizing her great contribution to the Goblin Spiders PBI.   
 Diagnosis. Males are similar to those of H. santosi sp. nov. and H. erebai sp. nov. by the presence of a median concavity on the sternum (Figs 20A, 34B, 36A); They differ from H. erebai sp. nov. by the endite’s P1 not directed posteriorly, not reaching the anterior margin of sternum and from those of H. santosi sp. nov. by the labium anterior margin not projected forward at middle and by the subquadrangular endite’s P1 (Fig. 36C) (protuded distally in H. santosi sp. nov., Fig. 34D ).   
 Description. Male (PBI_OON 51542). Total length 1.56. CEPHALOTHORAX: Carapace orange-brown, with Coxapopha -like pattern, pars cephalica domed in lateral view, surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth, sides finely granulate, fovea present (Figs 35B–C). 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. 35E). Sternum longer than wide, pale orange, median concavity present, with radial furrows between coxae I–II, II–III, III–IV, furrow smooth, surface smooth, without pits, microsculpture absent (Figs 35D, 36B). Mouthparts: Chelicerae distal region unmodified (Fig. 35E). Labium anterior margin not indented at middle, much wider than long (Fig. 36C). Endites with a median projection (mp), a P1 and a P2; mp very short, directed anteriorly; P1 lamellar, directed anteriorly, situated posteriorly to mp. P2 short, situated anteriorly to mp (Figs 35F, C–E). ABDOMEN: dorsum soft portions pale orange. Book lung covers large, round. Dorsal scutum orange-brown, covering full length of abdomen, no soft tissue visible dorsally. Epigastric scutum not protruding. Postepigastric orange-brown, almost semicircular, covering nearly full length of abdominal length (Figs 35B, G). LEGS: pale orange. GENITALIA: Epigastric region with sperm pore situated at level of posterior spiracles. Palp proximal segments pale orange; embolus short, nearly three times longer than wide, tip flattened, not bent upwards; conductor present, filiform (Figs 35G–I, 36H–K).   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Other material examined.  Brazil. Bahia. Una:  Estaç „o Ecológica do Una (14º48’S, 39º02’W / 15º17’48”S, 39º04’28”W) Oct, 1999– Sept. 2000, M.F. Dias leg., 1♁ (IB64523, PBI _ OON 51575).   
 Distribution. Known only from type locality, Una, state of Bahia, Brazil (Map 5).
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 page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5329.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8244009