Leclercera ekteenensis, Chang & Li, 2020

Chang, Wan-Jin & Li, Shuqiang, 2020, Thirty-one new species of the spider genus Leclercera from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Psilodercidae), ZooKeys 913, pp. 1-87 : 1

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scientific name	Leclercera ekteenensis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Leclercera ekteenensis sp. nov. Figs 31 View Figure 31 , 32 View Figure 32 , 56B View Figure 56 , 58 View Figure 58

Types.

Holotype: ♂ (IZCAS), Nepal, Mechi District, Ekteen Village, 27°13.1333'N, 87°50.7833'E, elevation ca 2088 m, 27.XI.2016, Q. Zhao leg.

Etymology.

The species name is an adjective referring to the type locality.

Diagnosis.

Males of L. ekteenensis sp. nov. can be distinguished from congeners by the presence of a conductor with two distinct branches (Fig. 32B View Figure 32 ) (vs. the absence of a two-branched conductor in congeners), the embolus arising from medial tegulum (vs. embolus arising distally in congeners), the presence of a distinct darkened apophysis anteriorly on the tibia (Fig. 32D View Figure 32 ) (vs. the absence of a darkened tibial apophysis in congeners).

Description.

Male (Holotype). Total length 3.09; carapace 0.90 long, 1.00 wide; abdomen 2.19 long, 0.94 wide. Carapace round and brown, with three dark brown longitudinal bands, median band five times wider than the lateral bands (Fig. 31A View Figure 31 ). Chelicerae brown (Fig. 56B View Figure 56 ). Clypeus light brown, with dark brown band medially. Endites dark brown, light brown basally. Labium dark brown. Sternum with dark brown stripes laterally, delimiting light brown anterior and median region. Abdomen elongated, antero-dorsally with three pairs of dark brown spots laterally, light brown medially, posterior with dark brown stripes medially, antero-ventrally with dark brown elliptical patch, posterior with indistinct dark and light brown spots, posterior edge with a pair of dark brown fusiform patches laterally. Legs uniformly brown; measurements: I 12.76 (3.40, 0.31, 3.60, 3.53, 1.92), II 8.71 (2.40, 0.31, 2.40, 2.40, 1.20), III 6.39 (1.88, 0.25, 1.75, 1.63, 0.88), IV 9.82 (2.80, 0.31, 2.80, 2.66, 1.25). Palp (Fig. 32A-D View Figure 32 ): femur slender, four times longer than patella; patella not swollen; tibia swollen, 1.5 times shorter and wider than femur, antero-dorsally with a black apophysis, almost as long as tegulum; cymbium with dark brown spots, two times shorter than femur; bulb light brown, pyriform, with conductor arising distally, embolus arising medially; conductor dark and thin with two branches, one shorter than the other, short branch bends towards long branch; embolus arising from median tegulum, attached to short branch of conductor, almost as long as long branch of the conductor (Fig. 32B View Figure 32 ).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality (Fig. 58 View Figure 58 ).