Platnick shablyai, Marusik & Fomichev, 2020

Marusik, Yuri M. & Fomichev, Alexander A., 2020, A new genus of Liocranidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Tajikistan, Acta Biologica Sibirica 6, pp. 583-594 : 583

Platnick shablyai sp. n.

Figs 1-5 , 6-13 , 26 , 33-34

Type.

Holotype ♂ (ZMMU), TAJIKISTAN, Khatlon Region, Dzhilantau Mt. Range, 2 km E from Kuybul'on Village , 37°53.970'N, 69°23.155'E, dry stony shiblyak shrubland with rocks, 970-1200 m, 14.04.2019 (A.A. Fomichev) .

Etymology.

The species is named after the entomologist Vitaliy O. Shablya (Moscow, Russia), who organized the expedition to Tajikistan in which the new species was collected.

Diagnosis.

Same as for the genus.

Description.

Male. Total length 2.1. Prosoma 0.46 high. Carapace: 0.96 long, 0.74 wide, 0.3 high. Prosoma and chelicerae brown. Legs and palps pale yellow with darker coxa and femur I. Abdomen with brownish dorsal scutum almost entirely covering dorsum. Epigastral scutum encircling petiolus. Postgastral scuta as shown in Fig. 2 and described for the genus.

Palp as in Figs 6-13 . See description of the genus.

Leg measurements:							Leg spination:
	Fe	Pt	Ti	Mt	Ta	Total		Fe		Ti	Mt
I	0.64	0.34	0.53	0.37	0.37	2.25	I	-		pv4 rv4	pv1 rv1
II	0.57	0.33	0.46	0.34	0.34	2.04	II	-		pv4 rv3	pv1 rv1
III	0.46	0.24	0.3	0.33	0.34	1.67	III	d1		v1	pv1
IV	0.61	0.33	0.51	0.5	0.44	2.39	IV	d1		r1	-

Habitat.

The holotype was collected in shiblyak shrubland. Shiblyak is a kind of vegetation similar to those called garrigue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrigue) or maquis shrubland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquis_shrubland), composed of deciduous xerophilous shrubs and small trees.

Distribution.

Known from the type locality only (Figs 33-34 ).

Figures

Figures 1 - 5. Male of Platnick shablyai sp. n.: 1 - 3 - habitus, 4 - cephalic part, 5 - leg I. 1 - dorsal, 2 - ventral, 3 - lateral, 4 - frontal, 5 - prolateral. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (1); 0.2 mm (5).

Figures 6 - 13. Male palp of Platnick shablyai sp. n.: 6 - 9, 12, 13 - whole palp, 10, 11 - terminal part. 6, 13 - Retrolateral, 7 - prolateral, 8 - dorsal, 9 - 12 - ventral. Abbreviations: Cl - tegular collar, Cn - conductor, Em - embolus, Pa - prolateral apophysis of tibia, Po - retrolateral outgrowth of patella, Sd - sperm duct, Ta - tegular apophysis, Ve - ventral extension of femur. Scale bars: 0.2 mm (7); 0.05 mm (11); 0.1 mm (12, 13).

Figures 14 - 26. Female habitus and details: 14, 16, 18, 20 - Platnick sanglok sp. n. 15, 17, 19, 21 - 25 - P. astana sp. n. 26 - P. shablyai sp. n. 14, 15 - Habitus, dorsal, 16, 17 - ditto, ventral, 18, 19 - ditto, lateral, 20, 21 - female leg I, prolateral, 22 - female maxillae and palps, dorsal, 23, 24 - female chelicera, mesal and anterior, 25 - the fang of the female chelicera, posterior, 26 - leg I Ta of the male. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (14, 15); 0.2 mm (20, 22); 0.05 mm (24, 26); 0.02 mm (25).

Figures 27 - 34. Epigynes: 27, 28 - Platnick astana sp. n.; 29 - 32 - P. sanglok sp. n.; 33, 34 - collecting localities of Platnick species. 27, 29 - Intact, ventral, 31, 32 - macerated, ventral, 28, 30 - macerated, dorsal. Abbreviations: Ah - anterior hood, Cd - copulatory ducts, Co - copulatory opening, Fd - fertilization duct, Fo - fovea, Re - receptacle, Rg - receptacle gland. P. shablyai sp. n. - circle, P. astana sp. n. - triangle, P. sanglok sp. n. - diamond. Frame on Fig. 34 refers to Fig. 33. Scale bars: 0.2 mm (27, 29).