Tonsilla Wang & Yin, 1992

Zhang, Meng, Irfan, Muhammad, Wang, Lu-Yu & Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, 2022, Six new species of Tonsilla Wang & Yin, 1992 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from southern China, with the first description of the male of T. yanlingensis (Zhang, Yin & Kim, 2000), Zootaxa 5091 (2), pp. 357-372 : 358

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.2.7

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:68EB0115-26FA-4DEF-9564-699C5CCEFC66

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5847299

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scientific name

Tonsilla Wang & Yin, 1992
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Genus Tonsilla Wang & Yin, 1992 View in CoL View at ENA

The females of Tonsilla can be easily recognized by the large epigynal atrium, epigynal teeth situated anteriorly, and the large copulatory ducts, while the males can be recognized by the long patellar apophysis, a short cymbial furrow, and the bifurcate (or lobed) conductor. Chelicerae of both sexes with three promarginal and two retromarginal teeth ( Wang, 2002). Wang (2002) considered this genus as the sister group of Pireneitega Kishida, 1955 , but Zhao & Li (2017) placed it as the sister group of Himalcoelotes Wang, 2002 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Agelenidae

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