Telema spina, Tong & Li, 2008

Tong, Yanfeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2008, The Spiders Of The Genus Telema (Araneae: Telemidae) From Hainan Island, China, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (1), pp. 67-74 : 73

Telema spina , new species

( Figs. 1D , 5A–C , 6 )

Holotype. – Male ( IZCAS), Mountain Wuzhishan (18 ° 49'N 109 ° 39'E), Wuzhishan City, Hainan Island, China, coll. Y. Song, 16 Apr.2005.

Diagnosis. – The new species is similar to the male of T. dongbei Wang & Ran, 1998 , and can be distinguished by the distinctive straight bulb apophysis (the angle of bulbal apophysis to the bulb is smaller than 90 ° in T. dongbei ), the strong spine present on distal end of palpal tarsus, the presence of eyes, the presence of dark area on carapace, the distinctive cheliceral promarginal teeth, the distinctive shorter legs (the longest legs of T. dongbei are more than twice those of the counterpart of the new species, the shortest legs of T. dongbei are distinctly longer than the longest legs of the new species), and the smaller body size.

Description. – Males. Total length 1.22. Carapace 0.56 long, 0.49 wide; abdomen 0.66 long, 0.55 wide. Carapace yellow, with dark patterns. Middle area of clypeus, area behind eyes and center of carapace blackened. Legs, labium, endites and chelicerae yellowish brown. Sternum blackish brown. Abdomen gray; spinnerets yellow, colulus brown. Carapace with pair of setae at clypeus, and behind eyes. Six eyes, anterior row of four eyes nearly straight, AM close together, nearly touching, separated from AL by 1/3 diameter of AL, lateral eyes contiguous. Promargin of fang furrow with one large tooth, one relatively small tooth and three barely visible granulous denticles, retromargin with four barely visible denticles. Legs with dorsal spine at distal end of patella as well as at middle of tibia. Leg measurements: I 3.13 (0.92, 0.18, 0.93, 0.59, 0.51); II 2.70 (0.81, 0.18, 0.77, 0.49, 0.45); III 1.93 (0.56, 0.17, 0.51, 0.36, 0.33); IV 2.50 (0.80, 0.17, 0.67, 0.47, 0.39). Leg formula: I-II-IV-III. Palp with prolateral cymbial apophysis; palpal tarsus with 3-4 strong spines on distal end; bulb oval with one simple apophysis.

Female. Unknown.

Etymology. – The specific name is from Latin “ spina ”, refers to the strong spine present on distal end of palpal tarsus.

Figures

Fig. 1. Dorsal views of Telema spiders: A, T. bella, new species, dorsal view; B, T. breviseta, new species, dorsal view; C, T. dengi, new species, dorsal view; D, T. spina, new species, dorsal view.

Fig.5. Telema spina, new species: A, male left palp in retrolateral view; B, male left palp in prolateral view; C, chelicerae in ventral view. Scale bars: 0.2 mm.

Fig. 6. Collection localities of Telema spiders in Hainan, China.