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Holotype male:color:carapace light yellow, a few dusky marks laterally, dark seam around edge of cephalothorax, clypeus with dark stripes beneath ALE; sternum yellow, darker around border; chelicerae dusky yellow, black stripe anteriorly; maxillae dusky yellow brown, lightening distally; labium dusky yellow, lightening distally; abdomen dorsally light yellowish, lighter distally, darkening caudally, with 2 darker horizontal stripes caudally and laterocaudal festoon; ventrally dusky yellow grey, no markings; legs light yellow with dusky annulations, specks on anterolateral faces of femora, forming long line. Carapace: 0.95 times longer than broad; fovea longitudinal, broad, very shallow. Eyes:AER slightly recurved; PER recurved; PME larger than AME, PLE largest, ALE smallest; eye diameters, AME 0.20, ALE 0.10, PME 0.30, PLE 0.40;interdistances AME-PME 0.03, PME-ALE 0.18, ALE-PLE 0.40. PME-PME 1.00. ALE-ALE 1.72; ocular quadrangle AME-AME 0.40, PLE-PLE 1.80; clypeus 0.15 high. Mouthparts:chelicerae with a few scattered setae medially and anteriorly; maxillae longer than broad, with tuft of conspicuous setae distally; labium distally rounded. Sternum:1.12 times longer than broad, posteriorly indented. Legs:leg I much shorter than legs II, III and IV; leg formula 2341; scopulae present on distal end of all 4 tarsi; tarsi I-IV with strong claw tufts; pr claw toothed, rl claw with fewer teeth; spination: leg I, Fm pr 1–1–1, d 1–1–1, rl 1–1–1; Ti d 0–1–0, pr 1–0–1, rl 1–0–1, v 2–2–2; Mt f 2–2; leg II, Fm pr 1–1–1, d 1–1–1, rl 1–1–1; Ti pr 1–0–1, d 0–1–0, rl 1–0–1, v 2–2–2; Mt v 2–2; leg III, Fm pr 1–1–1, d 1–1–1, rl 1–1–1; Ti pr 1–0–1, rl 1–0–1, v 2–2–1; Mt v 2–2; leg IV, Fm pr 1–1–1, d 1–1–1, rl 1–1–1; Ti pr 1–0–1, v 2–2–0, rl 1–0–1; Mt pr 1–1–0, rl 1–1–0, v 2–2. Abdomen:without terminal setal tufts. Pedipalp:Fm, spination d 0–1–4; cymbium oval in ventral view, angled posterolaterally; scopulae scattered, denser distally; conductor large angular structure arising from side of bulb, curved on one side, sinuate on other, tapering anteriorly; embolus long, slender, straight, arising at 7 o'clock, terminating at 11 o'clock; MA large with short triangular base with long hooked finger-like process, MA arising at 2 o'clock, directed anterolaterally; RTA barely reaching cymbium in ventral view, with two processes, lateral process long and rectangular, slightly curved, distally truncate, ventral process widening and rounded distally, slightly twisted (Figs 75–76).Dimensions:Total length 6.80. Carapace length 3.55, width 3.73. Sternum length 1.90, width 1.70. Abdomen length 3.25, width 2.35. Pedipalp: Fm 1.00, Pt 0.30, Ti 0.60, Ta 1.00, total 2.90. Leg I: Fm 3.75, Pt 1.00, Ti 3.80 Mt 4.00, Ta 1.75, total 14.30. Leg II: Fm 4.75, Pt 2.50, Ti 4.20, Mt 4.00, Ta 1.75, total 17.20. Leg III: Fm 4.80, Pt 1.75, Ti 4.00, Mt 4.00, Ta 1.60, total 16.15. Leg IV: Fm 4.75, Pt 1.50, Ti 4.00, Mt 4.00, Ta 1.75, total 16.00.
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Crews S (2011) A revision of the spider genus Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Arachnida, Araneae, Selenopidae) in North America, Central America and the Caribbean ZooKeys 105: 1–182
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Known only from the type locality and immediate vicinity (Map 5).
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Crews S (2011) A revision of the spider genus Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Arachnida, Araneae, Selenopidae) in North America, Central America and the Caribbean ZooKeys 105: 1–182
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