Phrynarachne brevis Tang & S. Li, 2010

Lin, Yejie, Yu, Long, Koomen, Peter, Yan, Xunyou & Li, Shuqiang, 2022, Taxonomic notes on the genus Phrynarachne from China (Araneae, Thomisidae), ZooKeys 1085, pp. 69-99 : 69

Phrynarachne brevis Tang & S. Li, 2010

Figs 1A , 6 , 18A , 21

Phrynarachne brevis Tang & Li, 2010: 49, figs 35A-D, 36A, B (♂).

Type material.

Holotype: ♂ (IZCASAr18535), China: Yunnan: Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Menglun Town, Menglun Nature Reserve, Bamboo plantation near G213 roadside, 21.8940°N, 101.2823°E, 580 m elev., 3.XII.2009, Guo Tang and Zhiyuan Yao leg., examined.

Other material examined.

1♀ (IZCAS-Ar41642), China: Yunnan: Xishuangbanna, Jinghong City , Mengla County, Menglun Town , Menglun Nature Reserve , Bamboo plantation, 21.9008°N, 101.2822°E, 597 m elev., 9.V.2019, Zhigang Chen leg.

Diagnosis.

See diagnosis of P. dreepy sp. nov.

Description.

Female (Figs 1A , 6 , 18A ). Total length 16.53, carapace 6.62 long, 7.09 wide, yellow brown with brown pattern and granulations dorsally. With large projection between ALE and PLE. Eye sizes and interdistances: ALE 0.26, AME 0.23, PLE 0.25, PME 0.22; ALE-AME 0.51, AME-AME 0.90, PLE-PME 1.62, PME-PME 1.02. Chelicerae brown, with two promarginal and one retromarginal teeth; gnathocoxae, labium dark yellow, labium 1.52 long, 1.18 wide. Sternum yellow. Legs brown, femora I and II with dense, varying-sized tubercles; tibiae and metatarsi I, II with dense asymmetrical ventral spines (I, tibia 12, metatarsus 30; II, tibia 10, metatarsus 30). Leg measurements: I 17.25 (5.74, 6.31, 3.10, 2.10), II 17.61 (5.66, 6.61, 3.30, 2.04), III 12.30 (3.67, 5.74, 1.50, 1.39), IV 10.26 (3.31, 4.12, 1.46, 1.37). Opisthosoma dorsally light yellow, each side with 22 long tubercles, middle with pair of black markings.

Epigyne (Fig. 6 ) with M-shaped sclerotized margins; median plate obvious, with a posterior hood, anterior edge recurved and posterior edge almost straight, the ratio of length to width is 11:3; copulatory opening obvious; spermathecae kidney-shaped, the ratio of anterior edge to posterior edge length is 1:1. Fertilization duct transverse.

Male. See Tang and Li (2010).

Distribution.

China (Yunnan).

Notes.

The female is described here for the first time.

Figures

Figure 1. Phrynarachne spp., live A P. brevis, adult female B P. xuxiake sp. nov., juvenile. Photos by Chao Wu (A) and Fan Gao (B).

Figure 6. Phrynarachne brevis, female A epigyne, ventral B vulva, dorsal.

Figure 18. Phrynarachne spp., habitus dorsal A P. brevis, female B P. huangshanensis, male C P. dreepy sp. nov., holotype male D same, paratype female.

Figure 21. Distribution records of Phrynarachne species in China 1 P. brevis 2 P. ceylonica 3 P. dreepy sp. nov. 4 P. huangshanensis 5 P. katoi 6 P. lancea 7 P. mammillata 8 P. xuxiake sp. nov. 9 P. yunhui sp. nov. 10 P. zhengzhongi sp. nov.