Thaiderces miantiao Li & Chang

Chang, Wan-Jin & Li, Shuqiang, 2019, Fourteen new species of the spider genus Thaiderces from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Psilodercidae), ZooKeys 869, pp. 103-146 : 103

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.869.35546
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scientific name	Thaiderces miantiao Li & Chang
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Thaiderces miantiao Li & Chang sp. nov. Figs 2N View Figure 2 , 14 View Figure 14 , 27H View Figure 27 , 29 View Figure 29

Types.

Holotype: ♀ (IZCAS), Thailand, Nakhon Srithammarat Province, Thung Song District, outside of Ta Lod Cave, 08°2.3667'N, 99°44.8333'E, 120 m, 14.X.2015, Zhao Q., Zhou G., Chen Z.

Etymology.

The species name is a noun in apposition derived from the Chinese pinyin miàntiáo (noodle) and refers to the spermathecae structure which resembles curly noodles (twisted structure).

Diagnosis.

See diagnosis for T. zuichun sp. nov.

Description.

Female. Total length 1.56; carapace 0.54 long, 0.60 wide; abdomen 1.02 long, 0.86 wide. Carapace round and brown, with two longitudinal dark brown bands laterally, and a central dark brown patch ( Fig. 14C View Figure 14 ). Chelicerae brown ( Fig. 27H View Figure 27 ). Clypeus brown. Endites brown. Labium dark brown. Sternum with dark brown pattern. Abdomen elongated, with indistinct brown pattern ( Fig. 14C View Figure 14 ), ventrum with two circular patches followed by an ovate epigastric area anteriorly, posterior with yellow dotted lines laterally and indistinct brown pattern ( Fig. 14D View Figure 14 ). Legs uniformly brown; measurements: I 5.05 (1.20, 0.15, 1.50, 1.50, 0.70), II‒IV missing. Endogyne: two pairs of strongly twisted helical spermathecae, with globose distal part nearly the same width as the stalk, stalk en times longer than the globose head, ratio of lateral pairs of spermathecae interdistance to median pair interdistance 1: 3.5 ( Fig. 14A View Figure 14 ).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality ( Fig. 29 View Figure 29 ).