Pimoa lhatog 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/BE5D5F7B-3DAE-464C-84B5-CC68A4B2455A

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scientific name

Pimoa lhatog Zhang & Li
status

sp. nov.

Pimoa lhatog Zhang & Li sp. nov. Figures 23 View Figure 23 , 59 View Figure 59

Type material.

Holotype: ♀ (IZCAS-Ar41964), China, Tibet, Nyingchi, Nang County, Lhatog Town, Lhatog Lake, 28.75°N, 93.08°E, ca. 4122 m, 5.X.2020, Z. Chen leg. Paratype: 1♀ (IZCAS-Ar41965), same data as holotype.

Etymology.

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

Diagnosis.

Pimoa lhatog sp. nov. resembles those of P. crispa (see Hormiga 1994a: 63, figs 239-247) and P. mainling (see Zhang et al. 2020: 89, fig. 7A-D) but can be distinguished from P. crispa by the funnel-shaped epigyne (Fig. 23A View Figure 23 ) (vs. triangular) and from P. mainling by the bean-shaped spermathecae (Fig. 23A View Figure 23 ) (vs. nearly oval).

Description.

Female (holotype): Total length 7.18. Carapace 2.66 long, 2.34 wide. Abdomen 4.52 long, 3.84 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.19, ALE 0.17, PME 0.15, PLE 0.16; AME-AME 0.05, AME-ALE 0.13, PME-PME 0.15, PME-PLE 0.14. Leg measurements: I: 17.56 (4.88, 6.06, 4.41, 2.21); II: 15.01 (4.38, 5.01, 3.78, 1.84); III: 10.79 (3.25, 3.31, 2.84, 1.39); IV: 13.75 (4.19, 4.63, 3.34, 1.59). Habitus as in Fig. 23E-G View Figure 23 . Carapace yellowish with black lateral margins; thoracic fovea and radial grooves distinct; sternum brownish. Abdomen black with brownish, transverse chevrons. Legs brownish with black annulations. Epigyne (Fig. 23A-D View Figure 23 ): funnel-shaped; ventral plate distally narrow, length subequal to width; dorsal plates narrow, width ca. 1/2 length; copulatory openings distinct; spermathecae bean-shaped, separated by ca. 1/3 width of a spermatheca; fertilization ducts yellow, laterally oriented.

Male: Unknown.

Distribution.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Pimoidae

Genus

Pimoa