Wolongia wangi Zhu, Kim

Wan, Jin-Long & Peng, Xian-Jin, 2013, The spiders of the genus Wolongia Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997 from China (Araneae: Tetragnathidae), Zootaxa 3691 (1), pp. 87-134 : 96

Wolongia wangi Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997

( Figs 33–34 )

Wolongia wangi Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997: 2, f. 2A–H; Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 223, f. 129I–J, M–N; Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003: 313, f. 174A–H, pl. XIA–D.

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from other Wolongia species by the combination of the following characters: 1) abdominal dorsum with four pairs of black spots on both sides of median brown stripe ( Fig. 34 A); 2) chelicera fang with a median denticle ( Fig. 33 D); 3) femur I with several short median macrosetae prolaterally ( Fig. 33 C); 4) the longest prolateral seta on Metatarsus I and II 1.5 times longer than the width of Metatarsus I and II ( Fig. 33 E); 5) cymbial base without a denticle retrolaterally; 6) epigynum with tongue-shaped septum ( Fig. 34 B); 7) spermatheca membranous, longer than wide in dorsal view ( Fig. 34 C); 9) copulatory ducts straight and run posteriorly from spermathecae in dorsal view ( Fig. 34 C). Males of this species are similar to W. odontodes in hookshaped process of cymbial ectobase ( Figs 23 B, 25A, 33A), but can be distinguished from the latter by: 1) chelicera fang with a median denticle which is absent in W. odontodes ; 2) prolateral surface of femur I with several short median macrosetae which is absent in W. Odontodes ; 3) cymbial base without a denticle retrolaterally which is present in W. odontodes ( Figs 23 C; 25B).

Distribution: China (Shanxi).

Figures

FIGURE 23. Wolongia odontodes Zhao, Yin & Peng, 2009, male from Gongshan County, Dulongjiang Township, Longyuan Village, Bailai Group. A, habitus, dorsal view; B, palp, ventral view; C, palp, retrolateral view; D, palp, dorsal view; Scale bars: A, 1.0 mm; B – D, 0.1 mm.

FIGURE 33. Wolongia wangi Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997, male copied after Zhu, Song & Zhang 2003. A, palp, ventral view; B, palp, retrolateral view; C, femur I, prolateral view; D, chelicerae, posterior view; E, metatarsus I, prolateral view.

FIGURE 34. Wolongia wangi Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997, female copied from Zhu, Song & Zhang 2003. A, habitus, dorsal view; B, epigynum, ventral view; C, vulva, dorsal view; D, chelicerae, posterior view.