Acroterius hamatus, Irfan & Bashir & Peng, 2021

Irfan, Muhammad, Bashir, Shahida & Peng, Xianjin, 2021, Acroterius gen. nov. (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Linyphiinae) with twelve new species from Yunnan, China, European Journal of Taxonomy 743, pp. 1-53 : 24-28

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2021.743.1293

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4665111

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/754D348A-8F5C-47DA-9940-FDCEDD520F56

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Acroterius hamatus
status

gen. et sp. nov.

Acroterius hamatus View in CoL gen. et sp. nov.

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Figs 19–21 View Fig View Fig View Fig , 38 View Fig

Differential diagnosis

The new species resembles Acroterius brevis gen. et sp. nov. ( Fig. 8A–D View Fig ) in having the posterior median plate extending posteriorly with a parmula, but can be distinguished by: in dorsal view, parmula two times the width of parmula base, with distal part distinctly expanded ( Fig. 19D View Fig ), slightly longer than the width of parmula base ( Fig. 19A–D View Fig ), but distal part not expanded in A. brevis gen. et sp. nov. In lateral view, anterior wall of epigynal plate projection wider than long ( Figs 19C View Fig , 21C View Fig ), but longer than wide in A. brevis gen. et sp. nov. ( Fig. 8C View Fig ).

Etymology

The species name comes from the Latin adjective ‘ hamatus ’, meaning ‘hook’ and referring to the hookshaped spermathecae in the epigyne.

Type material

Holotype CHINA • ♀; Yunnan Province, Gongshan County, Dulongjiang Township, Kongdang Village ; 27.87961° N, 98.33878° E; alt. 1527 m; 25 Oct. 2004; Guo Tang leg.; HNU-Tang–04–04 . GoogleMaps

Paratypes (5 ♀♀)

CHINA – Yunnan Province, Gongshan County • 4 ♀♀; 77 km of new road to Donglongjiang; 27.91034° N, 98.41081° E; alt. 2183 m; 8–9 Nov. 2004; Guo Tang leg.; HNU-Tang–04–09 GoogleMaps 1 ♀; Dulongjiang Township, S/N of Dizhengdang Village along Silalong He; 28.07654° N, 98.32603° E; alt. 1890 m; 28 Oct. 2004; D.H. Kavanaugh leg.; HNU-DHK–2004–059 GoogleMaps .

Description

Female (holotype)

MEASUREMENTS AND COLOUR. Total length: 3.43. Carapace 1.41 long, 1.17 wide, cephalothorax brown; clypeus 0.41 high ( Fig. 20A–B View Fig ); abdomen 2.01 long, 1.41 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances:

AME 0.06, ALE 0.08, PME 0.07, PLE 0.07, AME–AME 0.04, PME–PME 0.07, AME–ALE 0.09, PME–PLE 0.08, ALE–ALE 0.49, PLE–PLE 0.53, ALE–PLE contiguous.

CHELICERAE. With six promarginal and six retromarginal teeth; reteromarginal teeth long and highly sclerotized protruding beyond fangs.

LENGTH OF LEGS. I = 5.39 (1.74, 1.40, 1.31, 0.94), II = 4.99 (1.42, 1.54, 1.17, 0.83), III = 3.95 (1.18, 1.25, 0.9, 0.62), IV = 4.94 (1.44, 1.53, 1.18, 0.79). Leg formula I–II–IV–III.

EPIGYNE. Parmula 0.53 long, 0.28 wide at base ( Fig. 19A–C View Fig ); posterior margin of anterior wall of epigynal plate with projection wider than long on each side ( Fig. 19A–B View Fig ). Spermathecae slender, distal part slightly curved, pointing towards posterior margin of epigyne ( Fig. 19D View Fig ).

VARIATION IN THE EPIGYNE (HNU-Tang–04–09, Fig. 21A–F View Fig ). We noticed in the four out of five female paratypes that the epigynal parmulas are broken at the same point due to unknown reasons. All the other somatic and genitalic characters are found to be similar ( Fig. 21A–D View Fig ).

Male

Unknown.

Distribution

China (Yunnan Province, Fig. 38 View Fig ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Linyphiidae

SubFamily

Linyphiinae

Genus

Acroterius

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