Leptonetela liping, Lin & Li, 2010

Lin, Yucheng & Li, Shuqiang, 2010, Leptonetid spiders from caves of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, China (Araneae: Leptonetidae) 2587, Zootaxa 2587 (1), pp. 1-93 : 45-51

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2587.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5312102
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A76E6115-FFAE-FFF4-FF49-86B7A5CFFC6D
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Leptonetela liping
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Leptonetela liping View in CoL sp. nov.

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Type material: Holotype: male ( IZCAS), Guantuan Cave (Alt.: 544 m; T.: 14 ºC; H.: 92%), Guantuan Village, Yongcong Town, Liping County [25°59.028´N, 109°06.979´E, Guizhou, China], 23 May 2007, Y.C. Lin and J. Liu leg. GoogleMaps Paratypes: 44 males and 61 females, same data as holotype ( IZCAS) GoogleMaps .

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

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to Leptonetela deltshevi ( Brignoli, 1979b) , but can be distinguished from the latter by the presence of a mastoidal median apophysis, the blunt conductor, the longer pedipalpal tarsus no contracted mesially, the presence of 3 setae at pedipalpal tarsus distally, the closer spermathecae and the small atrium (unknown in female of L. deltshevi ).

Description. Holotype male. Total length 1.78. Prosoma 0.81 long, 0.72 wide. Sternum 0.53 long, 0.49 wide. Opisthosoma 1.03 long, 0.91 wide. Dorsal shield of prosoma pale yellow, paired setae on antrolateral area of prosoma. Thoracic median groove fuscous, needle-shaped, with a mane. Cervical groove and radial furrows indistinct, yellow-greyish. Clypeus 0.18 high, slightly sloped anteriorly, with short setae antromarginally. Ocular area reduced to four white small eye-spots, contiguous each other. Chelicerae yellow, fang furrow with 9 promarginal and 5 retromarginal teeth. Endites, labium and legs yellow, sternum pale yellow. Leg measurements: I 6.91 (1.85, 0.31, 2.10, 1.67, 0.98); II 5.12 (1.43, 0.30, 1.50, 1.13, 0.76); III 4.10 (1.13, 0.29, 1.08, 1.00, 0.60); IV 5.98 (1.64, 0.30, 1.79, 1.42, 0.83). Leg formula: I-IV-II-III. Three or four prolateral setae on femur I mesially. A row of thin hairs on tibiae I and II retrolaterally. Three trichobothria and 5 setae on each tibia. Only one hairs-comb at base of metatarsus III ventrally. Opisthosoma yellow or pale, ovoid, lacking pigmental speckles, covered with hairs.

Pedipalpal femur spineless. One dorsal spine at patella distally. Three dorsal trichobothria and 5 spurs on tibia retrolaterally, of them, spur I largest, no bifurcated. Tarsus smooth and not contracted mesially, attaching two small processes retrolaterally and ventrally, 4 long setae distally. Pedipalpal bulb subround, prolateral lobe developed. Conductor wide and short, embolus narrow and long. Median apophysis large, mastoidal.

Female. General features and body size similar to male, but legs shorter. Total length 1.82. Prosoma 0.83 long, 0.80 wide. Sternum 0.64 long, 0.61 wide. Opisthosoma 1.05 long, 0.91 wide. Clypeus 0.18 high. Vestigial white eye-spots. Chelicerae yellow, fang furrow with 9 promarginal and 5 retromarginal teeth. Endites and labium yellow. Leg measurements: I 5.62 (1.48, 0.31, 1.61, 1.30, 0.92); II 4.82 (1.21, 0.30, 1.38, 1.07, 0.86); III 3.70 (0.98, 0.29, 0.90, 0.85, 0.68); IV 5.14 (1.36, 0.30, 1.50, 1.14, 0.84). The chaetotaxy of each leg same as in male.

Genital area covered with densely plumose long hairs. Internal genitalia consisting of a pair of kinkled spermathecae and sperm ducts, smooth, sclerotized distally stronger than proximally. The atrium narrow, sharply triangular, procurved slightly at median of anterior margin, lacking modified short hairs, attaching a piece of membrane posteriorly.

Distribution. Known only from type locality.