Pimoa yejiei Zhang & Li, 2021

Xu, Hao, Zhang, Xiaoqing, Yao, Zhiyuan, Ali, Abid & Li, Shuqiang, 2021, Thirty-five new species of the spider genus Pimoa (Araneae, Pimoidae) from Pan-Himalaya, ZooKeys 1029, pp. 1-92 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1029.64080

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B6E2170-5A3A-4ECD-ADCB-C47887CD4EA1

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scientific name

Pimoa yejiei Zhang & Li
status

sp. nov.

Pimoa yejiei Zhang & Li sp. nov. Figures 48 View Figure 48 , 59 View Figure 59

Type material.

Holotype: ♀ (IZCAS-Ar42010), China, Shaanxi, Paoki, Mei County, Taibaishan Nation Forest Park, 34.02°N, 107.87°E, ca. 1656 m, 20.VII.2020, Y. Lin and Z. Wang leg. Paratype: 1♀ (IZCAS-Ar42011), same data as holotype.

Etymology.

The specific name is named after the collector Yejie Lin and is a noun (name) in genitive case.

Diagnosis.

Pimoa yejiei sp. nov. resembles P. mainling (see Zhang et al. 2020: 89, fig. 7A-D), but can be distinguished by the broad and round dorsal plates (Fig. 48A-D View Figure 48 ) (vs. narrow).

Description.

Female (holotype): Total length 5.62. Carapace 2.84 long, 1.28 wide. Abdomen 2.78 long, 1.94 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.11, ALE 0.16, PME 0.17, PLE 0.18; AME-AME 0.04, AME-ALE 0.12, PME-PME 0.14, PME-PLE 0.13. Leg measurements: I: 19.42 (5.52, 6.50, 5.09, 2.31); II: 17.37 (4.84, 5.78, 4.81, 1.94); III: 13.91 (4.75, 4.25, 3.47, 1.44); IV: 16.10 (4.88, 5.25, 4.28, 1.69). Habitus as in Fig. 48E-G View Figure 48 . Carapace yellowish with black lateral margins; thoracic fovea and radial grooves distinct; sternum brownish. Abdomen black with yellowish transverse bands and a vertical band not extending to distal part. Legs yellowish without annulations. Epigyne (Fig. 48A-D View Figure 48 ): funnel-shaped; ventral plates narrow, with a tip, length subequal to width; copulatory openings distinct; spermathecae round, unseparated; fertilization ducts hyaline, anteriorly oriented.

Male: Unknown.

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality, Shaanxi, China (Fig. 59 View Figure 59 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Pimoidae

Genus

Pimoa