Habrocestoides sinensis

Peng Xian-jin & Xie Li-ping, 1995, Spiders of the genus Habrocestoides from China (Araneae: Salticidae), Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10, pp. 57-64 : 57

Habrocestoides sinensis Prószyfıski, 1992 (Figs. 17-22)

Habrocestoides sinensis Prószynski, 1992 a: 94, figs. 16-21 (♂).

Material: The type specimen was collected from Hubei, China, and deposited in San Francisco. I have had no opportunity to examine it. N0 new representative has been collected. The following diagnosis and figures are after Prószynski (1992a).

retrolateral; 16 Ditto, dorsal. Scale lines=l. 0 mm (12), 0.1 mm (13-16).

Diagnosis: The male of this species resembles H. furcatus , but can be distinguished from the latter by: (1)

pedipalps with thin streak of white setae dorsally along mid-line of cymbium and tibia (Figs. 21, 22); (2) tibial apophysis not fork-shaped in retrolateral view (Fig. 20); (3) embolus relatively thicker and longer (Figs. 18,19), not bifurcated in retrolateral view (Fig. 20); (4) abdominal pattern (Fig. 17).

Female: Unknown.

Distribution: China (Hubei).‘