Pimoa guiqing 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

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CC819285-03F2-4F81-94BB-2997F472D861

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Pimoa guiqing Zhang & Li
status

sp. nov.

Pimoa guiqing Zhang & Li sp. nov. Figures 11 View Figure 11 , 59 View Figure 59

Type material.

Holotype: ♀ (IZCAS-Ar41940), China, Gansu, Tianshui, Wushan County, Mt. Guiqing, 34.65°N, 104.49°E, ca. 1922 m, 13.VII.2020, Y. Lin and Z. Wang leg. Paratype: 1♀ (IZCAS-Ar41941), same data as holotype.

Etymology.

The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

Diagnosis.

Pimoa guiqing sp. nov. can be distinguished from other congeners except for P. binchuanensis Zhang & Li, 2019 (see Zhang and Li 2019: 3, fig. 2A, B) by the tongue-shaped, distally curved dorsal plate (Fig. 11B View Figure 11 ) (vs. with an oval tip and trapezoidal basal part in P. binchuanensis ) and by the unseparated spermathecae (Fig. 11A View Figure 11 ) (vs. separated by ca. 1/2 the width in P. binchuanensis ).

Description.

Female (holotype): Total length 5.79. Carapace 2.63 long, 2.16 wide. Abdomen 3.16 long, 2.13 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.12, ALE 0.14, PME 0.12, PLE 0.16; AME-AME 0.08, AME-ALE 0.14, PME-PME 0.14, PME-PLE 0.15. Leg measurements: I: - (5.59, -, -, -); II: 17.64 (4.90, 6.12, 4.81, 1.81); III: 13.07 (3.97, 4.10, 3.56, 1.44); IV: - (5.12, -, -, -). Habitus as in Fig. 11E-G View Figure 11 . Carapace yellowish; thoracic fovea and radial grooves distinct; sternum yellow. Abdomen proximally yellowish with grayish transverse bands. Legs brownish without annulations. Epigyne (Fig. 11A-D View Figure 11 ): triangular; ventral plate broad, length subequal to width; dorsal plate tongue-shaped, with a curved tip distally, length subequal to width; copulatory openings distinct; spermathecae round, unseparated; fertilization ducts yellow, laterally oriented.

Male: Unknown.

Distribution.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Pimoidae

Genus

Pimoa