Mangora baii, Mi & Li, 2021

Mi, Xiaoqi & Li, Shuqiang, 2021, Nine new species of the spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China, ZooKeys 1072, pp. 49-81 : 49

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1072.73345

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scientific name

Mangora baii
status

sp. nov.

Mangora baii View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 14 View Figure 14 , 15 View Figure 15 , 21B View Figure 21

Type material

. Holotype. ♂ (IZCAS-Ar42548) China: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Menglun Town, Menglun Nature Reserve, secondary forest near mountain top (21°57.92'N, 101°12.05'E, ca 820 m), 2.VI.2013, Z. Zhao & Z. Chen leg. Paratypes: 1♀ (IZCAS-Ar42549), secondary tropical seasonal rainforest (21°55.43'N, 101°16.44'E, ca 600 m), 19-25.XI.2006, G. Zheng leg.; 1♀ (IZCAS-Ar42550), secondary tropical seasonal moist forest (21°54.72'N, 101°16.94'E, ca 650 m), 19-25.XI.2006, G. Zheng leg.; 1♀ (IZCAS-Ar42551), secondary tropical seasonal rainforest (21°55.43'N, 101°16.44'E, ca 600 m), 5-12.XII.2006, G. Zheng leg.; 1♀ (IZCAS-Ar42552), secondary tropical seasonal rainforest (21°55.43'N, 101°16.44'E, ca 600 m), 19-26.V.2007, G. Zheng leg.; 1 ♂ (IZCAS-Ar42638), G213 roadside, secondary forest (21°54.46'N, 101°16.76'E, ca 640 m), 20.XI.2009, G. Tang leg.; 1♂(IZCAS-Ar42562), secondary forest near mountain top (21°57.96'N, 101°12.19'E, ca 787 m), 31.V.2013, Z. Zhao & Z. Chen leg.; 1♂ (IZCAS-Ar42639), secondary tropical forest, around garbage dump (21°54.17'N, 101°16.87'E, ca 609 m), 31.VII.2018, Z. Bai leg.

Etymology

. The species is named after Mr. Zilong Bai, one of the collectors of the type specimens; noun (name) in genitive case.

Diagnosis

. The new species differs from congeners by the following combination of characters: 1) the abdomen has two transverse patches and one longitudinal patch; 2) the scape is distally widened; 3) the conductor is long, membranous, and basally trifurcated.

Description

. Male (holotype, Figs 14A, B View Figure 14 , 15C, D View Figure 15 , 21B View Figure 21 ). Total length 2.60. Carapace 1.40 long, 1.10 wide. Abdomen 1.55 long, 1.00 wide. Clypeus 0.08 high. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.10, ALE 0.05, PME 0.08, PLE 0.05, AME-AME 0.08, AME-ALE 0.03, PME-PME 0.03, PME-PLE 0.10, MOA length 0.30, anterior width 0.30, posterior width 0.20. Leg measurements: I 5.00 (1.35, 1.75, 1.30, 0.60), II 4.40 (1.30, 1.40, 1.15, 0.55), III 2.95 (0.90, 0.95, 0.70, 0.40), IV 4.20 (1.30, 1.35, 1.05, 0.50). Carapace pear shaped, grayish yellow with black eye region, cervical groove slightly obvious, fovea longitudinal. Chelicerae yellow, four promarginal and three retromarginal teeth. Endites grayish yellow, with a protuberance on anterior lateral margin, labium grayish brown, paler distally. Sternum heart-shaped, grayish yellow. Legs yellow without annulations, femur II with furrow basally, tibia II with 13 macrosetae. Abdomen oval, about 1.55 times longer than wide, with long, grayish brown setae, dorsum grayish yellow with two transverse and one longitudinal grayish brown patch; venter grayish yellow, big grayish brown patch medially. Spinnerets grayish yellow.

Palp (Figs 14 View Figure 14 , 21B View Figure 21 ): with one patellar bristle; cymbium tip with cluster of long macrosetae, median apophysis about a bulb diameter width, lamellar; embolus tapered and slightly curved; conductor length about equal to bulb diameter, membranous, basally trifurcated; terminal apophysis extremely large, almost triangular in apical view; subterminal apophysis with 3 protuberances.

Female (paratype IZCAS-Ar42551, Fig. 15A, B, E, F View Figure 15 ). Total length 3.85. Carapace 1.75 long, 1.20 wide. Abdomen 2.65 long, 2.30 wide. Clypeus 0.05 high. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.13, ALE 0.10, PME 0.13, PLE 0.10, AME-AME 0.08, AME-ALE 0.05, PME-PME 0.03, PME-PLE 0.10, MOA length 0.35, anterior width 0.30, posterior width 0.25. Leg measurements: I 6.10 (1.75, 2.10, 1.55, 0.70), II 5.15 (1.50, 1.75, 1.25, 0.65), III 3.50 (1.10, 1.15, 0.75, 0.50), IV 5.15 (1.55, 1.75, 1.25, 0.60). Habitus similar to that of male but endites without protuberances.

Epigyne (Fig. 15A, B View Figure 15 ): wider than long, with distally widened scape; copulatory openings narrow, situated at anterior base of lateral lobes; copulatory ducts slightly curved; spermathecae globular, touching each other.

Variation

. Total length: ♂♂ 2.45-2.60; ♀♀ 3.10-3.85.

Distribution

. China (Yunnan).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Araneidae

Genus

Mangora