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Ectatosticta pingwuensis Wang & Zhao & Irfan & Zhang 2021, sp. nov.

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China. & wangluyu 1989 @ 163. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5250 - 3473
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China. & 1131732591 @ qq. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4344 - 0300
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China. & irfanuos 94 @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0445 - 9612
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.

Description

Ectatosticta pingwuensis sp. nov.

Figures 3A, 9A–C, 15E, 16E, 17F, 19

Type material. Holotype male (SWUC-T-HY-02-01), China, Sichuan Province, Pingwu County, 32°42′46″ N, 104°22′37″ E, elev. 1801 m, 15 October 2020, L.Y. Wang, Y. Zhang, J.X. Zhao and J.S. Luo leg. Paratypes: 7 females (SWUC-T-HY-02-02~08), with same data as holotype; 1 female (SWUC-T-HY-02-09), Pingwu County, 32°42′46″ N, 104°22′37″ E, elev. 1801 m, 14 October 2018, Z.S. Zhang, L.Y. Wang, F. Zheng, P. Liu and T. Yuan leg.; 2 females (SWUC-T-HY-02-10~11), Pingwu County, 24 September 2018, L.Y. Wang, F. Zheng, P. Liu, T. Yuan, Y. Zhang and M. Zhang leg.

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the type locality; noun in apposition.

Diagnosis. The male of this new species resembles E. shennongjiaensis sp. nov. (Figs 11A–C, 15H, 16H) in having four strong setae on cymbial lobe, but differs from the latter by the wide conductor, the right-angled lower edge of the embolic base (Figs 9A–C, 15E, 16E). The female of this new species resembles E. yukuni Lin & Li, 2021 (Fig. 18F) in having two pairs of spermathecae, but differs from the latter by the dorsal spermathecae longer than a half of ventral spermathecae (Fig. 17F).

Description. Male holotype (Fig. 3A). total length 11.50. Prosoma 5.26 long, 3.36 wide; Opisthosoma 6.10 long, 3.40 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.15, ALE 0.24, PME 0.21, PLE 0.23; AME–AME 0.13, AME– ALE 0.33, PME–PME 0.41, PME–PLE 0.22, ALE–PLE 0.04. MOA 0.41 long, front 0.43 wide, back width 0.78. Clypeus 0.40 high. Chelicerae with six promarginal and nine retromarginal teeth. Leg measurements: I 67.19 (18.21, 21.55, 17.13, 10.30); II 55.82 (15.19, 17.86, 14.69, 8.08); III 43.99 (13.34, 14.51, 10.99, 5.15); IV 56.19 (16.83, 17.87, 14.76, 6.73). Leg formula: 1423.

Male palp (Figs 9A–C, 15E, 16E). Cymbium long, retrolaterally with a small semicircular lobe and a large lobe bearing four strong setae. Embolus thin, length ratio of embolus to embolic base 1:2, basaly grooved. Conductor long, sickle-shaped.

Female (One of paratypes). Total length 17.02. Prosoma 8.39 long, 5.27 wide; Opisthosoma 9.24 long, 2.96 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.34, ALE 0.44, PME 0.47, PLE 0.46; AME–AME 0.27, AME–ALE 0.49, PME–PME 0.63, PME–PLE 0.36, ALE–PLE 0.05. MOA 0.78 long, front 0.89 wide, back width 1.31. Clypeus 0.62 high. Chelicerae with eight promarginal and six retromarginal teeth. Leg measurements: I 65.05 (18.79, 22.67, 15.54, 8.05); II 56.16 (16.11, 19.20, 13.82, 7.03); III 41.68 (12.46, 14.05, 10.21, 4.96); IV 51.12 (15.21, 16.21, 13.44, 6.26). Leg formula: 1243.

Female genitalia (Fig. 17F). Dorsal spermathecae longer than a half length of ventral spermathecae, ventral spermathecae arc-shaped, 1.5 times longer than the length of dorsal spermathecae.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality, Sichuan, China (Fig. 19).

Notes

Published as part of Wang, Lu-Yu, Zhao, Jing-Xia, Irfan, Muhammad & Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, 2021, Review of the spider genus Ectatosticta Simon, 1892 (Araneae: Hypochilidae) with description of four new species from China, pp. 523-542 in Zootaxa 5016 (4) on pages 532-533, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5016.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5222521

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
T
Event date
2018-09-24 , 2018-10-14 , 2020-10-15
Family
Hypochilidae
Genus
Ectatosticta
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Wang & Zhao & Irfan & Zhang
Species
pingwuensis
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
2018-09-24 , 2018-10-14 , 2020-10-15
Taxonomic concept label
Ectatosticta pingwuensis Wang, Zhao, Irfan & Zhang, 2021

References

  • Lin, Y. J. & Li, S. Q. (2021) Four new species of the genus Ectatosticta (Araneae, Hypochilidae) from China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica, 30 (1), 1 - 8. https: // doi. org / 10.3969 / j. issn. 1005 - 9628.2021.01.001