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Item The goblin spider genus Aprusia Simon, 1893 (Araneae, Oonopidae). (American Museum novitates, no. 3706)(American Museum of Natural History., 2011) Grismado, Cristian J.; Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa L.; Baehr, Barbara, 1953-The South Asian goblin spider genus Aprusia Simon (Araneae: Oonopidae) consists of five species and is found in southwestern India and Sri Lanka. Although the type species A. strenuous Simon is known only from two juvenile syntypes, new topotypical material from Sri Lanka allowed a redefinition of the genus and species. Ischnothyreus vestigator Simon, also from Sri Lanka, is transferred to Aprusia based on recently collected topotypical specimens. The female is described for the first time. Three new species are described: A. veddah Grismado and Deeleman, A. kataragama Grismado and Deeleman (both from Sri Lanka), and A. kerala Grismado and Deeleman (from southwestern India). The genus is recognized by the relatively small to medium-sized dorsal scutum on the abdomen of both sexes, the strong macrosetae on the forelegs and by the conformation of the male palp, with the cymbium and bulb fused and a tiny, slightly sclerotized embolus.Item High resolution images for Taxonomic review of the goblin spiders of the genus Dysderoides Fage and their Himalayan relatives of the genera Trilacuna Tong and Li and Himalayana, new genus (Araneae, Oonopidae). (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 387)(2014-04-28) Grismado, Cristian J.; Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa L.; Piacentini, Luis N.; Izquierdo, Matías A..; Ramírez, Martín J.High resolution images for Taxonomic review of the goblin spiders of the genus Dysderoides Fage and their Himalayan relatives of the genera Trilacuna Tong and Li and Himalayana, new genus (Araneae, Oonopidae). (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 387); Bulletin no. 387 can be accessed at this link: http://hdl.handle.net/2246/6524Item The spider genus Crossopriza (Araneae, Pholcidae) in the New World. American Museum novitates ; no. 3262(New York, NY : American Museum of Natural History, 1999) Huber, Bernhard A.; Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa L.; Pérez González, Abel."Crossopriza Simon, 1893 (Pholcidae) is a predominantly Old World spider genus with only a few records from the New World. The present paper reevaluates the New World records, and shows that C. lyoni (Blackwall, 1867), a synanthropic spider, has been recorded under several different names in various parts of the world and is the only unequivocal species in the New World. New junior synonyms of C. lyoni are C. brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1935, from Brazil; C. mucronata Mello-Leitão, 1942, from Argentina; and C. francoisi Millot, 1946, and C. stridulans Millot, 1946, from Madagascar. We present a detailed redescription and several new records for C. lyoni. The Argentine C. saltensis Mello-Leitão, 1941, is newly synonymized with Priscula binghamae (Chamberlin, 1916)"--P. [1].Item Taxonomic review of the goblin spiders of the genus Dysderoides Fage and their Himalayan relatives of the genera Trilacuna Tong and Li and Himalayana, new genus (Araneae, Oonopidae). (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 387)(American Museum of Natural History., 2014-04-21) Grismado, Cristian J.; Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa L.; Piacentini, Luis N.; Izquierdo, Matías A.; Ramírez, Martín J.The study of many museum specimens of goblin spiders from the Himalayan range and neighboring countries allows for 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 and Deeleman) and Thailand (D. muang Grismado and Deeleman, D. kaew Grismado and Deeleman, D. kanoi Grismado and Deeleman, and D. lawa Grismado and Deeleman). The genus Trilacuna, previously known from China, Thailand, Malaysia, and Sumatra, 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. aenobarba (Brignoli), from Bhutan (here transferred from Epectris Simon), and six new: four from northern India (T. meghalaya Grismado and Piacentini, T. besucheti Grismado and Piacentini, T. Mahanadi Grismado and Piacentini, and T. loebli Grismado and Piacentini), one from India and Nepal (T. bangla Grismado and Ramírez), and one from Pakistan (T. hazara Grismado and Ramírez). The new genus Himalayana Grismado comprises species very similar to those of Trilacuna, but differs in the characters of the postepigastric scuta and by having an additional acute dorsoprolateral projection on the male palpi. Six new species are assigned to Himalayana: H. kathmandu Grismado (type species), H. castanopsis Grismado, H. parbat Grismado, and H. martensi Grismado (all from Nepal); and H. siliwalae Grismado and H. andreae Grismado (from India). The study of the internal female genitalia of T. meghalaya and T. bangla revealed a complex copulatory system, and an entelegyne condition, apparently uniform for the entire genus and probably for Dysderoides and Himalayana as well. The males of the three genera have a complex set of paraembolic laminae with brushes of filiform structures, among which discharges a gland through a thin, tortuous cuticular tube. The genitalic and somatic morphology of the three genera suggest that they conform a monophyletic group, here named "Dysderoides complex," and that their closer relatives can be found among Prethopalpus Baehr et al., and other genera related to Silhouettella Benoit. The loss of the membranous diagonal area on the base of the anterior lateral spinnerets is proposed as a synapomorphy of an advanced group of loricatae oonopids usually referred as gamasomorphines. Furthermore Triaeris glenniei Fage, described from a single female from a cave in Uttarakhand, is redescribed and transferred to Camptoscaphiella Caporiacco.