Calommata hangzhica Li & Xu, 2022

Calommata hangzhica Li & Xu, 2022: appendix S 1, pl. 1, fig. 5 c – f (♀).

Material examined.

• 1 male (HNU -WS-250828): China, Hunan Province, Changsha City, Wangcheng District, Wushan Forest Park; 28.29321°N, 112.79764°E; elev. 86 m; 28 August 2025; X. J. Peng, S. L. Li, W. L. Yan, C. P. Zou and F. Q. Wu leg.

Diagnosis.

The male of Calommata hangzhica Li & Xu, 2022 resembles that of C. yueluensis sp. nov. in having a similar embolus (cf. Figs 2, 5), but can be distinguished by 1) embolus and conductor directed obliquely and retrolaterally towards endites in ventral view (Figs 1 B, 4 B; vs. directed vertically and retrolaterally towards apex of chelicerae); 2) apex of embolus separates with conductor by a gap in ventral view (Fig. 5 C; vs. overlaps with conductor in C. yueluensis); and 3) cheliceral base with three or four large teeth (Figs 5 E, 6 F; vs. with several small teeth in C. yueluensis).

Description.

Male. (HNU -WS-250828) (Fig. 4 D – F). Total length 6.65 (with chelicerae). Carapace 2.09 long, 1.64 wide; abdomen 2.90 long, 2.12 wide. Carapace square and brown in colour; median ocular region strongly raised; fovea and radial groove distinct. Chelicerae dark brown with 13 teeth arranged in a single row. Sternum and labium brown; endite greatly enlarged. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.08, ALE 0.09, PME 0.07, PLE 0.06; AME – AME 0.06, AME – ALE 0.25, PME – PME 0.52, PME – PLE 0.03. MOA 0.22 long, anterior width 0.25, posterior width 0.65. Clypeus height 0.48. Leg measurements: leg I 7.85 (2.29, 2.05, 1.81, 1.70), II 7.19 (1.79, 1.82, 1.84, 1.74), III 7.08 (1.71, 1.51, 1.76, 2.10), IV 8.40 (2.33, 1.83, 1.94, 2.30). Leg formula: 4123. Leg yellow brown, weakly covered with bristles; tibiae and apex of metatarsi covered with spurs. Abdomen dark brown, with brown scutum anteriorly. Spinnerets white.

Palp (Figs 4 A – C, 5 A – D). Tibia swollen, about 2 × longer than wide; cymbium short and light brown. Embolus and conductor oriented obliquely, pointing retrolaterally. Conductor with sclerotized margin, gradually twisted and broadened apex with one prominent small tooth and obtuse edge opposite the tooth. Embolus straight, base slightly curved in lateral view, with wide gap between conductor and embolus.

Distribution.

Hunan (Changsha) and Zhejiang (Hangzhou) Provinces, China (Fig. 8).

Remarks.

The female of C. hangzhica has been reported from Zhejiang Province (Hangzhou) (Li et al. 2022). The specimen collected from Hunan is assigned to C. hangzhica based on the following reasons. First, this species is distinct from other described species, based on morphological analyses and comparisons. More importantly, we tried to extract DNA from the male specimen in the present study, and it was found that the smallest pairwise genetic distances between the female C. hangzhica specimen and the male specimen were only 0.90 % (K 2 P) and 0.89 % (p-distance), which are much smaller than the interspecific distances. Phylogenetic analyses (Fig. 7) further support the identification of the male specimen in the present study as C. hangzhica.

GenBank accession code.

COI for examined male specimen (HNU -WS-250828): PX 671534.