Paratrachelas acuminus ( Zhu & An, 1988 )

Bosselaers, Jan & Bosmans, Robert, 2010, Studies in Corinnidae (Araneae): a new Paratrachelas Kovblyuk & Nadolny from Algeria, as well as the description of a new genus of Old World Trachelinae, Zootaxa 2612, pp. 41-56 : 49-51

Paratrachelas acuminus ( Zhu & An, 1988)

Figs. 3 D–F, H; 4 A–D.

Clubiona acumina Zhu & An, 1988: 72 , figs. 1–6.

Trachelas coreanus Paik, 1991: 200 , figs. 1–11; Namkung, 2002: 456, fig. 35.3a; Namkung, 2003: 452, fig. 35.3a.

Trachelas acumina: Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 429 , figs. 255O–P, 256E–F; Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 324, figs. 208A–G.

Trachelas acuminus: Mikhailov, 1995: 100 ; Zhu, Song & Kim, 1998: 425, figs. 1–7; Kim & Lee, 2008: 1871 ; Zhang, Fu & Zhu, 2009: 43 , figs. 1–10.

Paratrachelas acuminus: Kovblyuk & Nadolny, 2009: 37 .

Type material. Holotype female, 'allotype' male, China, Shanxi Province, Yicheng County (N25.34°, E 100.13°), 17 July 1983, M. S. Zhu leg., examined [ MHBU].

Diagnosis. P. acuminus is close to P. m a c u l a t u s but differs from it by its thinner and pointed membranous conductor of the male palp, its short and longitudinally oriented embolus which is not coiled around the conductor, as well as by the wider anterior epigynal hood.

Description. See Zhang et al. (2009). Only characters not mentioned in that description are added here.

Chilum triangular, yellow-brown, sclerotised. Eye rows procurved from front. PSP subtriangular, yellow. PLB isolated, triangular, brown and sclerotised. PCT small, yellow-brown, pointed and sclerotised, fused with sternum. ICS blunt, fused with sternum. Entire male abdomen covered by a thin, smooth, semitransparent do scutum. Trochanter notch and rh absent. Leg III and IV mt with ve terminal preening brush. Leg formula 1423 in male and 4123 in female. Male leg cusps ti: I plv 2; II plv 1; mt I plv 5 rlv 1; II plv 4; ta I plv 2 rlv 1.

Leg measurements (male allotype): Leg measurements (female holotype):

Figures

FIGURE 3 A – C. Metatrachelas rayi. D – F, H. Paratrachelas acuminus. G, H. Paratrachelas atlantis. A, male, MNHN- 1523 do; B, female, MNHN- 1523 do; C, vulva, ve; D, male allotype, do; E, female holotype, do; F, vulva, ve; G, male holotype, do; H, male palps of P. acuminus (left) and P. atlantis, pl, ve and rl. Scale bars: A – B, D – E, G: 1; C, F: 0.1; H: 0.25.