A TAXONOMIC REVIEW OF THE GOBLIN SPIDERS OF THE GENUS DYSDEROIDES FAGE AND THEIR HIMALAYAN RELATIVES OF THE GENERA TRILACUNA TONG & LI, AND HIMALAYANA NEW GENUS (ARANEAE: OONOPIDAE)

CRISTIAN J. GRISMADO; CHRISTA DEELEMAN; LUIS N. PIACENTINI; MATÍAS A. IZQUIERDO; MARTÍN J. RAMÍREZ

AMER MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY

Lugar: New York; Año: 2013

he study of many museum specimens of goblin spiders from the Himalayan range and neighboring countries allows the description of new taxa of the family Oonopidae. The genus Dysderoides Fage is taxonomically reviewed. It comprises small, blind, loricate troglobitic spiders: the type species (D. typhlos Fage, from India) and, at least, five new species from Northern India (D. synrang Grismado & Deeleman) and Thailand (D. muang Grismado & Deeleman, D. kaew Grismado & Deeleman, D. kanoi Grismado & Deeleman, and D. lawa Grismado & Deeleman). The genus Trilacuna, previously known from China, Thailand, Sumatra and Malaysia, is newly diagnosed by the loss of the furrow connecting the posterior spiracles in males, and is represented in the Himalayan region by seven species: T. aenobarbus (Brignoli), from Bhutan (here transferred from Epectris Simon), and six new: four from Northern India (T. meghalaya Grismado & Piacentini, T. besucheti Grismado & Piacentini, T. mahanadi Grismado & Piacentini