Leclercera shanzi, 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 shanzi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Leclercera shanzi sp. nov. Figs 22 View Figure 22 , 23 View Figure 23 , 55H View Figure 55 , 58 View Figure 58

Types.

Holotype: ♂ (IZCAS), China, Yunnan Province, Wenshan State, Pingbian County, outside of Dawei Mountain Provincial Nature Reserves, 22°54.6450'N, 103°41.7810'E, elevation ca 2070 m, 21.V.2015, Y. Li and Z. Chen leg. Paratype: 1♀ (IZCAS), same data as holotype.

Etymology.

The species name is a noun in apposition derived from the Chinese pinyin “shànzĭ” (fan) and refers to the resemblance of the external genitalia to a hand fan.

Diagnosis.

Diagnostic features of males and females are discussed in the diagnosis of L. maochong sp. nov.

Description.

Male (Holotype). Total length 2.63; carapace 1.00 long, 1.13 wide; abdomen 1.63 long, 0.80 wide. Carapace round and brown, with three dark brown longitudinal bands, median band five times wider than lateral band (Fig. 22C View Figure 22 ). Chelicerae brown (Fig. 55H View Figure 55 ). Clypeus with dark brown band medially. Endites dark brown delimiting light brown circular area basally. Labium dark brown. Sternum dark brown. Abdomen elongated, dorsum medially with dark brown lateral patches with parallel lines delimiting an inverted “Y” -shape (Fig. 22C View Figure 22 ), antero-ventrally with a pair of dark brown kidney-shaped lateral spots, followed by a fan-shaped dark brown region, with an indistinct dark brown pattern posteriorly. Legs uniformly brown; measurements: I 14.78 (4.25, 0.40, 4.50, 4.00. 1.63), II 13.17 (3.85, 0.40, 4.17, 3.25, 1.50), III 8.94 (2.75, 0.31, 2.60, 2.03, 1.25), IV missing. Palp (Fig. 23A-D View Figure 23 ): femur slender, three times longer than patella; patella not swollen; tibia swollen, 1.5 times shorter and wider than femur, with two retrolateral apophyses anteriorly, apophyses darken distally (Fig. 23C View Figure 23 ); cymbium three times shorter than femur; bulb brown, pyriform, with conductor, embolus, and laminar apophysis arising distally; conductor twisted distally, with blunt tip, slightly shorter than, and basally merged with, embolus; embolus stalk almost as long as tegulum, embolus finely pointed; laminar apophysis black, adjacent to embolus, basally merged with and slightly wider than embolus (Fig. 23B View Figure 23 ).

Female (Paratype). General features and coloration similar to those of male (Fig. 22D, E View Figure 22 ). Measurements: total length 2.60; carapace 0.80 long, 1.00 wide; abdomen 1.80 long, 1.25 wide. Leg measurements: I 13.15 (3.50, 0.40, 4.00, 3.50, 1.75), II 11.06 (3.21, 0.40, 3.25, 2.80, 1.40), III 7.85 (2.34, 0.31, 2.20, 1.80, 1.20), IV 10.91 (3.20, 0.31, 3.20, 2.80, 1.40). Epigastric area (Fig. 22B View Figure 22 ): purplish and brownish pattern resembling the shape of a hand fan. Endogyne (Fig. 22A View Figure 22 ): pair of spermathecae resembling an isosceles triangle but without flattened base, base convex, both ends rounded.

Distribution.

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