Speocera cuyapo Li & Li 2019, sp. nov.
- 1. Life Science College, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, China
- 2. Southeast Asia Biological Diversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar & Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- 3. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- 4. College of Life Science, Langfang Normal University, Langfang 065000, China Corresponding author, E-mail: lisq @ ioz. ac. cn
Description
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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- IZCAS
- Event date
- 2015-05-22
- Family
- Ochyroceratidae
- Genus
- Speocera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Li & Li
- Species
- cuyapo
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 2015-05-22
- Taxonomic concept label
- Speocera cuyapo Li & Li, 2019