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Javanaria gracilipes Tanasevitch 2020, sp. nov.

Description

Javanaria gracilipes sp. nov.

Figs 5-6, 15-20

Holotype: MHNG; male [sample Sar-87/28]; INDONESIA, Java, West Java Province, Cibodas, environs of Botanical Garden, 1250-1300 m a.s.l., beating from vegetation in the low part of the garden; 27.XI.1987; leg. C. Lienhard.

Paratype: MHNG; male; collected together with the holotype.

Etymology: The specific epithet is a Latin noun referring to the relatively long and slender legs of the holotype.

Description: Male paratype. Total length 2.20. Carapace slightly modified: its ocular part protruding forward, as shown in Fig. 6; 0.95 long, 0.65 wide, reddish pale brown. Eyes somewhat enlarged. Chelicerae 0.38 long, mastidion absent. Legs pale yellow to yellow. Leg I 4.51 long (1.25 + 0.25 + 1.15 + 1.13 + 0.73), leg IV 3.89 (1.13 + 0.25 + 0.93 + 0.98 + 0.60). Chaetotaxy 2.2.1.1. Length of spines 1-2.5 diameters of corresponding leg segment. Each metatarsus with a trichobothrium. TmI 0.59. Palp (Figs 15-20): Tibia widened distally, unmodified. Paracymbium slender, its middle part long, its distal part short and bent. Distal suprategular apophysis massive, wide, with three long and pointed processes, the distal one longest. Median membrane strongly reduced, developed as a short, narrow and curved apophysis. Embolus flat, wide at base, gradually narrowing towards needle-shaped apex. Radix strongly reduced, developed as a small, narrow outgrowth at base of embolus. Abdomen 1.25 long, 0.70 wide, white, dorsal pattern as in Fig. 5.

Female. Unknown.

Taxonomic remarks: See above under genus description.

Distribution: Known only from the type locality on Java, Indonesia.

Range: Javanese.

Notes

Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2020, On linyphiid spiders from Java, Indonesia, with the description of three new genera and four new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae), pp. 63-74 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (1) on pages 66-68, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0006, http://zenodo.org/record/5743519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MHNG
Event date
1987-11-27
Family
Linyphiidae
Genus
Javanaria
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Tanasevitch
Species
gracilipes
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
1987-11-27
Taxonomic concept label
Javanaria gracilipes Tanasevitch, 2020