Hersilia cf. striata Wang & Yin, 1985

Pakawin Dankittipakul & Tippawan Singtripop, 2011, The spider genus Hersilia in Thailand, with descriptions of two new species (Araneae, Hersiliidae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (2), pp. 207-221 : 218-221

Hersilia cf. striata Wang & Yin, 1985

Figs 25-26 , 29

Hersilia striata Wang & Yin, 1985: 45 , figs 1A-E. – Song, 1987: 117, fig. 79. – Baehr & Baehr, 1993: 37, figs 26c-g. – Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 80, figs 12C, 32K-L, 33E. – Chen, 2007: 17, figs 2, 13-18.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: MHNG-PDC-74164642342654656687; Thailand, Prae Province, Long District, on a trunk of teak in a deciduous dipterocarp forests en route to Prae City; 1 female; 26.5.2002; leg. P. Dankittipakul.

REMARKS: The female examined belongs to the savignyi -group on the basis of genital morphology. It is most similar to H. striata in having the insemination ducts curving downwards and then ascending laterad, the rectangular bulbose sacs of the spermathecae with pilose apices and the ovoid receptacula separated from one other. However, the female examined slightly differ in the shape of the apices on the bulbose sacs which are round and clearly separate from the remaining membranous parts by thickenings ( Figs 26, 29 ). The separation is indistinct and the thickening of the apices is not prominent in females of H. striata . Therefore, the female examined from Thailand cannot be identified with certainty pending an examination of the Chinese types.

DISTRIBUTION: China, Myanmar, Thailand (Sam Roi Yod NP, Prachuap Kirikhan Province, and Doi Inthanon NP, Chiang Mai Province, given by Baehr & Baehr, 1993; Long, Prae Province), Indonesia (Java, Sumatra).

Figures

FIGS 25-26 Hersilia cf. striata. (25) Epigyne, ventral view. (26) Vulva, dorsal view. Scale lines = 1.0 mm.

FIGS 27-31 Hersilia asiatica (27), H. sundaica (28, 31), H. cf. striata (29), H. serrata sp. n., paratype (30). (27-28) Vulva, dorsal view. (29-30) Right half of vulva, dorsal view. (31) Seminal receptacle.