Speocera balikpapan Li & Li, 2019

Tong, Yanfeng, Li, Fengyuan, Song, Yang, Chen, Haifeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2019, Thirty-two new species of the genus Speocera Berland, 1914 (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from China, Madagascar and Southeast Asia, Zoological Systematics 44 (1), pp. 1-75 : 4

Speocera balikpapan Li & Li sp. nov. ( Figs 7 , 58A )

Material examined. Holotype ♀ ( IZCAS), Indonesia, Borneo , Balikpapan, Wanarist (1º01.523′S, 116º51.917′E), elev. 60 m, 18.VIII.2017, leg. H. Liu & Z. Chen.

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the type locality; noun.

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to S. phangngaensis Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995 but can be distinguished by the long, tubular spermathecae ( Fig. 7A ). S. phangngaensis females have oval spermathecae (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995: fig. 290).

Description. Female. Total length 1.08; carapace length 0.50; carapace width 0.43; abdomen length 0.55; abdomen width 0.41. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; shiny, light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern ( Fig. 7A ); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide. Endites light yellow with purplish tinge; with serrula; labium light yellow with purplish tinge. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles ( Fig. 58A ). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation, nearly subequal ( Fig. 7C ). Opisthosoma oval; purplish ( Fig. 7D ). Legs missing. Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae short, straight, not extending past the sides of the abdomen ( Fig. 7B ); spermathecae long, tubular ( Fig. 7A ).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.

Figures

Figure 7. Speocera balikpapan Li & Li sp. nov., holotype, female. A. Genitalia, dorsal view. B. Genitalia, ventral view. C–E. Habitus, dorsal, ventral and lateral views. Scale bars: A–B=0.05mm; C–E=0.30 mm.

Figure 58. Female chelicerae of Speocera spp., anterior view. A. S. balikpapan Li & Li sp. nov. B. S. batang Li & Li sp. nov. C. S. bontoc Li & Li sp. nov. D. S. cuyapo Li & Li sp. nov. E. S. dongjing Li & Li sp. nov. F. S. griswoldi Li & Li sp. nov. G. S. huifengi Li & Li sp. nov. H. S. huisun Li & Li sp. nov. I. S. melinh Li & Li sp. nov. J. S. tabuk Li & Li sp. nov. Scale bars=0.1mm.