Belisana wangchengi Wang, Yao & Zhang, 2024
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.3897/BDJ.12.e125111 |
publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:65C45BB4-A3F3-4841-9669-E54CD681DC44 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13800221 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/31B3B609-52B8-4E34-B2CC-C17C4AC563BF |
taxon LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:act:31B3B609-52B8-4E34-B2CC-C17C4AC563BF |
treatment provided by |
|
scientific name |
Belisana wangchengi Wang, Yao & Zhang |
status |
sp. nov. |
Belisana wangchengi Wang, Yao & Zhang sp. nov.
Materials
Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Cheng Wang, Jiahui Gan, Chaojun Long, Hong Yao, Xufei Zhu; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 4D8A0EA9-EA92-518B-8596-1EE38113E9AC; Taxon: order: Araneae ; family: Pholcidae ; genus: Belisana ; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou; municipality: Tongren; locality: Jiangkou County ; verbatimLocality: Nujiang Town, Hekou Village, Shenjia Cave; verbatimElevation: 360 m a. s. l.; verbatimLatitude: 27 ° 49.833 ’ N; verbatimLongitude: 108 ° 51.950 ’ E; Event: samplingProtocol: Collected by hand; year: 2022; month: 11; day: 19; Record Level: institutionCode: SYNU-Ar 00407 GoogleMaps
Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Cheng Wang, Jiahui Gan, Chaojun Long, Hong Yao, Xufei Zhu; individualCount: 3; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: E4CD7AE1-5DB3-5368-9BBB-89EAFE6AA9E7; Taxon: order: Araneae ; family: Pholcidae ; genus: Belisana ; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou; municipality: Tongren; locality: Jiangkou County ; verbatimLocality: Nujiang Town, Hekou Village, Shenjia Cave; verbatimElevation: 360 m a. s. l.; verbatimLatitude: 27 ° 49.833 ’ N; verbatimLongitude: 108 ° 51.950 ’ E; Event: samplingProtocol: Collected by hand; year: 2022; month: 11; day: 19; Record Level: institutionCode: SYNU-Ar 00408–00410 GoogleMaps
Description
Male (holotype): Total length 2.06 (2.22 with clypeus), prosoma 0.76 long, 0.84 wide, opisthosoma 1.30 long, 0.88 wide. Leg I: 22.48 (6.11, 0.38, 5.58, 8.41, 2.00), leg II: 14.50 (4.06, 0.36, 3.68, 5.00, 1.40), leg III: 9.88 (2.75, 0.34, 2.36, 3.40, 1.03), leg IV: 12.73 (3.68, 0.35, 3.24, 4.40, 1.06). tibia I L / d: 63. Eye intervals and diameters: PME-PME 0.16, PME 0.08, PME-ALE 0.02, AME absent. Sternum as wide as long (0.58). Habitus as in Fig. 2 View Figure 2 E and F. Carapace of prosoma yellowish, with brown radiating marks; ocular area and clypeus brown; sternum brownish. Legs whitish, without darker rings. Opisthosoma yellowish, with dark brown spots. Thoracic furrow absent. Clypeus unmodified. Chelicerae (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 D) with pair of proximo-lateral apophyses and pair of curved distal apophyses (distance between tips: 0.36). Palp as in Fig. 1 View Figure 1 A and B; trochanter with ventral apophysis (as long as wide, arrow 1 in Fig. 1 View Figure 1 B); femur with small retrolatero-proximal protrusion (arrow 2 in Fig. 1 View Figure 1 B); procursus simple proximally, but complex distally, with prolatero-subdistal sclerite (arrow 1 in Fig. 1 View Figure 1 C and Fig. 3 View Figure 3 A), distal membranous lamella (arrow 2 in Fig. 1 View Figure 1 C and Fig. 3 View Figure 3 A) bearing proximal sclerotised part, curved distal spine (arrow 3 in Fig. 1 View Figure 1 C and Fig. 3 View Figure 3 A), sclerotised dorsal apophysis (arrow 4 in Fig. 1 View Figure 1 C and Fig. 3 View Figure 3 A) and nearly trapezoidal retrolateral membranous lamella (f in Fig. 1 View Figure 1 D and Fig. 3 View Figure 3 B); bulb (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 C) with hooked apophysis and simple embolus. Retrolateral trichobothrium on tibia I at 8 % proximally; legs with short vertical setae on metatarsi; tarsus I with 22 distinct pseudosegments.
Female (paratype, SYNU-Ar 00408): Similar to male, habitus as in Fig. 2 View Figure 2 G and H. Total length 2.16 (2.35 with clypeus), prosoma 0.72 long, 0.87 wide, opisthosoma 1.44 long, 1.25 wide. tibia I: 4.04; tibia I L / d: 54. Eye intervals and diameters: PME-PME 0.12, PME 0.09, PME-ALE 0.02, AME absent. Sternum as wide as long (0.60). Epigyne (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 A and Fig. 3 View Figure 3 C) simple and flat, brown, with pair of lateral pockets 0.41 apart. Vulva (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 B and Fig. 3 View Figure 3 D) with ridge-shaped anterior arch and pair of long (8 times longer than wide), curved pore plates.
Diagnosis
The new species resembles B. yuhaoi Yang & Yao, 2023 ( Yang et al. 2023: figs. 2 A – B, 3 A – D and 4 A – H) by having similar bulbal apophyses (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 C), but can be distinguished by procursus without prolatero-ventral lamella (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 C and Fig. 3 View Figure 3 A; vs. present), by procursus with nearly trapezoidal retrolateral membranous flap (Fig. 1 View Figure 1 D and Fig. 3 View Figure 3 B; vs. angular), by distal apophyses of male chelicerae pointing forwards (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 D; vs. downwards), by epigyne with pair of lateral pockets (Fig. 2 View Figure 2 A, B, Fig. 3 View Figure 3 C and D; vs. posterior) and by pore plates long and curved (8 times longer than wide, Fig. 2 View Figure 2 B and Fig. 3 View Figure 3 D; vs. nearly triangular).
Etymology
The specific name is a patronym in honour of the collector Cheng Wang (Tongren University); noun (name) in the genitive case.
Distribution
China (Guizhou, Tongren, Jiangkou County, Nujiang Town, Hekou Village, Shenjia Cave).
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.