Gaiziapis Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009

Miller, Jeremy, Griswold, Charles & Yin, Chang, 2009, The symphytognathoid spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Araneoidea): Systematics and diversity of micro-orbweavers, ZooKeys 11 (11), pp. 9-195 : 60

Genus Gaiziapis Miller, Griswold & Yin , gen. n.

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Type species. Gaiziapis zhizhuba Miller, Griswold & Yin , sp. n.

Etymology. Formed from the Chinese words for cover or shell (gài zi) and a suffix (apis) common for anapid genera. The gender is feminine.

Diagnosis. Male distinguished from other anapids except Zealanapis Platnick & Forster, 1989 , Risdonius Hickman, 1939 , and Tasmanapis Platnick & Forster, 1989 , by the deep anteromedian invagination of the dorsal scutum ( Fig. 59B ; Platnick & Forster, 1989: fig. 101); distinguished from Risdonius , and Tasmanapis by having a round, rather than triangular, abdomen and by the absence of a prolateral apophysis on the bulb ( Platnick and Forster 1989: fig. 229); resembles Zealanapis in carapace texture and the form of the apophysis on the palpal patella, but differs in having a much more complicated palp with more membranes and sclerites (compare Fig. 61A with Platnick and Forster 1989: fig. 129).

Female distinguished from other Anapidae except Enielkenie Ono, 2006 by the following combination of characters: eight eyes, palp absent, book lung covers present, and abdomen round; distinguished from Enielkenie by the spacing of the eyes across the carapace (tightly grouped in Enielkenie so that the eyes take up about half the width of the carapace, Ono et al. 2006: fig. 20; spread out so the eyes take up nearly the entire width of the carapace in Gaiziapis : Fig. 59D ), and by the reduced anterior median eyes in Enielkenie , subequal with other eyes in Gaiziapis .

Species. Gaiziapis zhizhuba sp. n.

Figures

Figure 59. Gaiziapis zhizhuba sp. n. from Nankang Yakou. A, male, lateral; B, male, dorsal; C, female, lateral; D, female, dorsal; E, female, ventral; F, female, posterior.