Speocera cuyapo Li & Li 2019, sp. nov.

Speocera cuyapo Li & Li sp. nov. (Figs 20, 58D)

Material examined. Holotype ♀ (IZCAS), Philippines, Luzon Island, Nueva Ecija Province, Cuyapo City, Forest, on a steep slope, in the litter. (15º47.809′N, 120º39.329′E), elev. 60m, 22.V.2015, leg. F. Ballarin & Y. Li.

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

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to S. apo Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995 but can be distinguished by the posteriorly curved tip of the afferent spermathecae (Fig. 20B). The tip of the afferent spermathecae is curved anteriorly in S. apo (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995: figs 223–224).

Description. Female. Total length 1.19; carapace length 0.49; carapace width 0.41; abdomen length 0.66; abdomen width 0.49. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; yellow, strongly suffused with purplish pattern (Fig. 20C); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide (Fig. 20D). Endites light yellow, suffused with purplish tinge; with serrula; labium light yellow, suffused with purplish tinge. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles (Fig. 58D). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation, PME smallest, PLE largest (Fig. 20C). Opisthosoma oval; purplish (Fig. 20D). Legs light yellow; leg lengths I, II, IV missing; III 1.35 (0.40, 0.13, 0.30, 0.29, 0.23). Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae short, not extending past the sides of the abdomen; tip of the afferent spermathecae curved posteriorly from epigastric furrow (Fig. 20B); spermathecae small, round (Fig. 20A).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.