The soft-bodied goblin spiders of the new genus Noonops (Araneae, Oonopidae)

Title Variants

Alternative: Noonops

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3776

By

Platnick, Norman I.

Berniker, Lily
Goblin Spider Planetary Biodiversity Inventory.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY American Museum of Natural History 2013

Notes

Caption title.

"June 21, 2013."

Part of the oonopid PBI project. Cf. acknowledgments.

A new genus, Noonops, is established to contain 23 species of soft-bodied, New World oonopine spiders that differ from those of Oonops Templeton and similar genera in having the male palpal bulb fused to the cymbium, and from those of Wanops Chamberlin and Ivie and Oonopoides Bryant in having shorter legs. Six specific names are transferred from Oonops to Noonops: O. floridanus (Chamberlin and Ivie) from Florida and Georgia (chosen as the type species), O. gertschi Chickering from the Bahama Islands (which is placed as a junior synonym of N. floridanus), O. furtivus Gertsch from Texas and Tamaulipas, O. sonora Gertsch and Davis from Arizona, California, Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, O. puebla Gertsch and Davis from Puebla, and O. chilapensis Chamberlin and Ivie from Guerrero. Males of N. sonora and females of N. furtivus are described for the first time; 18 new species are described: N. ocotillo, N. mortero, N. joshua, N. skinner, N. coachella, and N. californicus from Arizona and southern California and N. willisi, N. mesa, N. naci, N. tarantula, N. miraflores, N. culiacan, N. taxquillo, N. chapul, N. beattyi, N. iviei, N. tonila, and N. minutus from Mexico.

Subjects

Arachnida , Classification , Noonops , North America , Oonopidae , Spiders

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3776 2013

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 849920906