Godumops caritus
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Ordo: Araneae
Familia: Selenopidae
Genus: Godumops
Name
Godumops caritus Crews & Harvey, 2011 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
Holotype male: canopy fogging the tree Pometia pinnata in Baiteta Forest, 5°01'S, 145°45'E, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, 31.III.1993, O. Missa (RMCA).
Etymology
The specific epithet comes from the Latin word caritus, meaning lacking, devoid of, or poor, and refers to the near lack of a fovea, and lack of prosomal radiating lines, and the absence of a MA, which is found in all other known Selenopidae. The name is to be treated as an adjective.
Diagnosis
This species can be separated from all other Selenopidae by a lack of MA (Fig. 1). Females unknown.
Description
Holotype: Color: carapace uniformly yellow-brown; sternum pale yellow; chelicerae yellow-brown, slightly darker brown anteriorly, near lateral condyle; maxillae pale yellow; labium pale yellow-brown; abdomen dorsally yellow brown with darker markings laterally, a few medially, and some lighter spots medially; ventrally pale yellow-brown; legs yellowish, annulations indistinct, only distinct markings dark markings ventrally on femur I. Cephalothorax:carapace 0.96 times longer than broad; fovea small round depression, very shallow. Eyes:AER slightly recurved; PER recurved; AME slightly larger than PME, PLE=AME, ALE smallest; eye group width 1.09; eye diameters, AME 0.19, ALE 0.06, PME 0.15, PLE 0.19; interdistances AME-ALE 0.27, PME-PLE 0.23, ALE-PLE 0.19, AME-PME 0.04; ocular quadrangle AME-AME 0.11, PME-PME 0.5; clypeus 0.06 high. Mouthparts:chelicerae with a few stout setae medially and anteriorly; lateral boss present, smooth; promargin with three teeth, retromargin with two teeth; maxillae longer than broad, with tuft of conspicuous setae distally; labium slightly anchor shaped, distally m-shaped (Fig. 109). Sternum:0.97 times longer than broad, only very slightly posteriorly indented. Pedipalp:femur, spination dorsal 0–1–2; retrolateral tibial apophysis with two apophyses, dorsal apophysis at least three times longer than ventral apophysis, triangular in ventral view, broad at base, tapering distally, ventral apophysis small, tapering distally; retrolateral basal cymbial process absent; cymbial scopulae absent, cymbium round, tapering retrolaterally. Conductor pointed at tip, directed ventrally, arising on a curved stalk with a medial projection from stalk, similar to Garcorops species; embolus very long and slender, beginning at 5 o’clock, terminating at 3 o’clock, base of embolus with two overlapping, thin triangular structures, one with several teeth along the bottom margin; median apophysis absent. Legs:leg I only slightly shorter than legs II, III and IV; leg formula 2341; scopulae absent on all legs; tarsus I–IV with strong claw tufts; pr claw with many teeth c.10–15, rl claw lacking teeth; spination: leg I, Fm pr 1–1–1, d 1–1–1, rl 0; Ti v 2–2–2–2–2–2–2; Mt v 2–2–2–2; Ti and Mt I and II with strong spines; leg II, Fm pr 0, d 1–1–1, rt 0; tibia 2–2–2–2–2–2–2; Mt v 2–2–2–2; leg III, Fm pr 0, d 1–1–1, rt 0; Ti 0; Mt 0; leg IV, Fm pr 0, dorsal 1–1–1, rt 0; Ti 0; Mt 0. Abdomen:terminal tufts of setae may be present, difficult to tell as there is some damage to the abdomen.
Dimensions: Total length 4.48. Cephalothorax length 2.18, width 2.28. Sternum length 1.17, width 1.13. Abdomen length 2.30, width 1.70. Pedipalp: Fm 0.75, Pt 0.40, Ti 0.48, Ta 0.78, (total) 2.41. Leg I: Fm 2.20, Pt 0.77, Ti 1.97, Mt 1.82, Ta 0.77, (total) 7.53. Leg II: Fm 2.96, Pt 0.96, Ti 2.74, Mt 2.04, Ta 0.86, (total) 9.56. Leg III: Fm 2.93, Pt 0.88, Ti 2.36, Mt 1.91, Ta 0.77, (total) 8.85. Leg IV: Fm 2.62, Pt 0.96, Ti 2.04, Mt 1.44, Ta 0.77, (total) 7.83.
Natural history
This species was collected from canopy fogging the tree Pometia pinnata in lowland rainforest habitat.
Distribution
The type locality only (Map 2).
Original Description
- Crews, S; Harvey, M; 2011: The spider family Selenopidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Australasia and the Oriental Region ZooKeys, 99: 1-104. doi
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