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Cornifronus simplex Jin & Li & Zhang 2024, sp. nov.

  • 1. School of Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, Hebei 056038, P. R. China.
  • 2. The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China.

Description

Cornifronus simplex Jin & Zhang, sp. nov. (DZẠĦĸu)

Figs 1–5

Type material. Holotype ♁, CHINA: Hainan Province, Lingshui County, Diaoluo Mountain National Nature Reserve Administration, roadside, 29 January 2015, leg. C. Jin, X. Guo, L. Fu and B. Zhang.

Paratypes: CHINA: Hainan Province: 8♀ 2♁, same data as holotype; 1♀ 2♁, Lingshui County, near the Diaoluo Mountain National Nature Reserve Administration, 27 January 2015, leg. C. Jin; 8♀ 4♁, Ledong County, Jianfengling National Forest Park, 1 February 2015, leg. C. Jin, X. Guo, L. Fu & B. Zhang. Yunnan Province: 1♀, Dehong Prefecture, Yingjiang County, Fenghuang Mountain, 20 July 2014, leg. P. Wu; 1♀, Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden east tour area (21.92364°N, 101.262012°E), 540 m a.s.l., 14 May 2017, leg. B. Zhou and X. Zang.

Etymology. The specific name is from the Latin word simplex, meaning “simple”, and refers to the simple genital structure of this species.

Diagnosis. See the generic diagnosis above.

Description. Male (Figs 1E–H, 2, 3C–E, 4A–C). Total length 1.65–1.90 (n = 7). Holotype: body length 1.71; carapace 0.91 long, 0.63 wide, width/length = 0.69; abdomen 0.80 long, 0.59 wide. Eye diameters: AME 0.04, ALE 0.06, PME 0.05, PLE 0.05. Eye interdistances: AME–AME 0.05, AME–ALE 0.01, ALE–ALE 0.12, PME–PME 0.04, PME–PLE 0.05, PLE–PLE 0.24, ALE–PLE 0.06. OAW 0.32, CRW 0.36, OAW/CRW = 0.89. CRW/carapace width = 0.22. MOA 0.13 long, front width 0.10, back width 0.15. Clypeus height 0.08, 2x AME diameter. Chelicerae with three promarginal and two retromarginal teeth. Labium 0.12 long, 0.15 wide. Sternum 0.51 long, 0.44 wide. Leg measurements: leg I 2.01 (0.58 + 0.21 + 0.51 + 0.43 + 0.28), II 1.74 (0.49 + 0.20 + 0.39 + 0.37 + 0.29), III 1.61 (0.45 + 0.17 + 0.34 + 0.37 + 0.28), IV 2.13 (0.57 + 0.20 + 0.46 + 0.58 + 0.32). Leg formula: 4123.

Females (Figs 1A–D, 3A–B, 4D–E). Total length 2.12–2.43 (n = 19). One paratype: body length 2.32; carapace 1.15 long, 0.76 wide, width/length = 0.66; abdomen 1.17 long, 0.98 wide. Eye diameters: AME 0.05, ALE 0.06, PME 0.06, PLE 0.07. Eye interdistances: AME–AME 0.02, AME–ALE 0.01, ALE–ALE 0.15, PME–PME 0.06, PME–PLE 0.06, PLE–PLE 0.29, ALE–PLE 0.07. OAW 0.40, CRW 0.46, OAW/CRW = 0.87. CRW/carapace width = 0.61. MOA 0.14 long, front width 0.13, back width 0.18. Clypeus height 0.12, 2.4x AME diameter. Labium 0.15 long, 0.15 wide. Sternum 0.53 long, 0.39 wide. Measurements of legs: leg I 2.50 (0.73 + 0.27 + 0.65 + 0.54 + 0.31), II 2.16 (0.63 + 0.25 + 0.49 + 0.49 + 0.30), III 2.00 (0.55 + 0.23 + 0.41 + 0.49 + 0.32), IV 2.60 (0.71 + 0.25 + 0.55 + 0.72 + 0.37). Leg formula: 4123.

Leg spination: tibiae: I plv 6 rlv 5, II plv 6/5 rlv 5/4 (female/male); metatarsi: I–II plv 4 rlv 4; tarsus: I–II plv 3 rlv 2.

Male palp (Figs 3C–E, 4A–C) and female genitalia (Figs 3A–B, 4D–E) as in the generic description.

Distribution. China (Yunnan, Hainan) (Fig. 5).

Notes

Published as part of Jin, Chi, Li, Liangtao & Zhang, Feng, 2024, Cornifronus gen. nov., a new dark sac spider genus from China (Araneae: Trachelidae), pp. 392-400 in Zootaxa 5415 (3) on page 398, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5415.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10693197

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2014-07-20 , 2015-01-27 , 2015-01-29 , 2015-02-01 , 2017-05-14
Verbatim event date
2014-07-20 , 2015-01-27 , 2015-01-29 , 2015-02-01 , 2017-05-14
Scientific name authorship
Jin & Li & Zhang
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Trachelidae
Genus
Cornifronus
Species
simplex
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Cornifronus simplex Jin & Zhang, 2024