Triaeris moca Platnick, Dupérré, Ubick, and Fannes 2012
- Dataset
- Got Males?: The Enigmatic Goblin Spider Genus Triaeris (Araneae, Oonopidae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Platnick, Norman I., Dupérré, Nadine, Ubick, Darrell, Fannes, Wouter (2012): Got Males?: The Enigmatic Goblin Spider Genus Triaeris (Araneae, Oonopidae). American Museum Novitates 2012 (3756): 1-36, DOI: 10.1206/3756.2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3756.2
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Oonopidae
- genus
- Triaeris
- species
- Triaeris moca
description
Figures 41 – 46
description
MALE: Unknown. FEMALE (PBI _ OON 2495, figs. 41 – 46): Total length 1.86. Carapace pale orange, sides finely reticulate. ALE largest; separated by their radius to diameter; posterior eye row procurved from front. Sternum, mouthparts pale orange. Dorsal scutum pale orange, covering half to 3 / 4 of abdomen length, more than half to most of abdomen width. Postepigastric scutum pale orange, with short, posteriorly directed lateral apodemes. Legs pale orange, without color pattern. Leg spination: patella I v 1 p- 1 r- 1 r; tibiae: I v 1 p- 2 - 2; II v 1 r- 1 r- 0; IV v 0 - 0 - 2. Ovoid atrium present between medially invaginated edges of epigastric and postepigastric scuta, that atrium with transverse sclerotization; anterior receptaculum short, distally rounded, posterior receptaculum long, with tiny distal squiggle. OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
diagnosis
DIAGNOSIS: Female can be recognized by the long, straight posterior receptaculum, which has only a tiny “ squiggle ” at its posterior end (figs. 45, 46).
distribution
DISTRIBUTION: Bioko.
etymology
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.
materials_examined
TYPE: Female holotype taken by sifting leaf litter at an elevation of 1400 m at Moca, 3 ° 21 ′ 46 ″ N, 8 ° 39 ′ 52 ″ E, Bioko, Equatorial Guinea (Oct. 3 – 6, 1998; D. Dabney, D. Ubick), deposited in CAS (9029516, PBI _ OON 2495).