Alboculus yanling, Mu, Yannan & Zhang, Feng, 2023

Mu, Yannan & Zhang, Feng, 2023, Further additions to the guardstone spider fauna from China (Araneae: Phrurolithidae), Zootaxa 5338 (1), pp. 1-104 : 13

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5338.1.1

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CAA37212-3008-43F4-98DE-94D7A3FFD3B6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8283783

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/364E87DE-867F-FF85-5AA6-FCD8DACC2703

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scientific name

Alboculus yanling
status

sp. nov.

Alboculus yanling View in CoL sp. nov. (ŘPHae※)

Figs 7–8 View FIGURE 7 View FIGURE 8

Type material. Holotype ♀, CHINA: Hunan Province: Zhuzhou City, Yanling County, Shennonggu National Forest Park (26.500841°N, 114.069715°E, 1060m a.s.l.), 9 May 2018, leg. Yannan Mu. GoogleMaps

Etymology. This specific name is derived from the type locality; noun in apposition.

Diagnosis. This new species resembles A. zhejiangensis (Song & Kim, 1991) in having similar white PME, but can be recognized by: 1) the larger bursa (vs small, cf. Fig. 7D View FIGURE 7 and fig. 3D in Liu et al. [2020]), 2) thicker, shorter copulatory ducts and thicker connecting tubes (vs copulatory ducts thin and long, connecting tubes thin, cf. Fig. 7D View FIGURE 7 and fig. 3D in Liu et al. [2020]), 3) clavate-shaped, long and transverse spermathecae (vs globular, cf. Fig. 7D View FIGURE 7 and fig. 3D in Liu et al. [2020]), and 4) thicker and shorter glandular appendages (vs thin and long, cf. Fig. 7D View FIGURE 7 and fig. 3D in Liu et al. [2020]).

Description. Female (Holotype): total length 2.70, carapace 1.12 long, 0.90 wide; abdomen 1.58 long, 1.10 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.07, ALE 0.08, PME 0.06, PLE 0.07; AME–AME 0.03, AME–ALE 0.01, ALE–ALE 0.19, PME–PME 0.05, PME–PLE 0.04, PLE–PLE 0.23, ALE–PLE 0.03. EAW 0.35, CRW 0.52, EAW/CRW 0.67, CRW/CW 0.58. MOA 0.19 long, anterior width 0.18, posterior width 0.17. CH 0.11, CH /AME 1.57. Labium 0.14 long, 0.17 wide. Sternum 0.65 long, 0.59 wide. Leg measurements: Ⅰ 3.19 (0.91, 0.38, 0.80, 0.70, 0.40), II 2.69 (0.78, 0.35, 0.59, 0.57, 0.40), III 2.43 (0.66, 0.29, 0.49, 0.60, 0.39), IV 3.56 (0.97, 0.36, 0.83, 0.90, 0.50). Spination: femora I–IV without dorsal spines, femur I pl 2, tibia Ⅰ pv 5 rv 5, tibia II pv 5 rv 4, metatarsus Ⅰ pv 4 rv 3, metatarsus II pv 3 rv 2. Leg yellow, femora I–IV with white tip. Carapace yellow, with indistinct radial groove beside fovea. Abdomen gray, with 4 pairs of black patterns and transverse black stripe before anal tubercle ( Fig. 7A, B View FIGURE 7 ).

Epigyne as in Figs 7C–D View FIGURE 7 , 8 View FIGURE 8 . Epigynal plate weakly sclerotized, without depression. Median septum thin. Copulatory openings small, separated by median septum, located at centre of plate. Copulatory ducts thick, short. Connecting tubes thinner than copulatory ducts, inflated at middle parts. Bursa large, asymmetrical. Glandular appendages short, transverse. Spermathecae clavate, transverse, close to each other. Fertilization ducts located middle of anterior spermathecal margin.

Male: unknown.

Distribution. China (Hunan Province).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Phrurolithidae

Genus

Alboculus

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