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Agroeca batangensis Mu & Jin & Zhang 2019, sp. n.

  • 1. The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China
  • 2. College of Landscape and Ecological Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, Heibei 056006, P. R. China
  • 3. The Key Laboratory of Invertebrate Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China & The Museum of Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, P. R. China

Description

Agroeca batangensis sp. n.

Figs 1–2

Type material. Holotype ♂, CHINA: Bishan County, Chongqing City, Batang Town, Wulong Village (29°49′00″N, 106°19′13″E), 327 m a.s.l., 10 Apr 2011, leg. Luyu Wang. Paratype: 1♂, Zhejiang Province, Lin’an City, Tian’mu Mountain, Chanyuan Temple (30°19′19″N, 119°26′31″E), 380 m a.s.l., 9 Apr 2012, leg. Luyu Wang.

Etymology. The species name is derived from the type locality; adjective.

Diagnosis. The new species resembles A. kamurai, but can be distinguished by: 1) the presence of a distinct hook-shaped apophysis at the proximal border of the tegulum (vs indistinct); 2) the thick and short RTA (vs thin and long); 3) the gently curved embolus (vs arch-shaped); and 4) the unique broad, sickle-shaped median apophysis. Female unknown.

Description. Male. Holotype (Figs 1 A–D) total length 2.29. Carapace 1.14 long, 1.00 wide; abdomen 1.15 long, 0.78 wide. Carapace light brown, margin dark, radial groove and cervical groove indistinct. Eye sizes and interdistances: ALE 0.06, PLE 0.06, PME 0.07, AME 0.05, AME–AME 0.03, AME–ALE 0.03, PME–PME 0.07, PME–PLE 0.05. MOA 0.13 long, 0.19 posterior wide, 0.10 anterior wide. Sternum brown, margin fuscous, longer than wide. Legs fuscous; tibia I with two pairs of ventral spines, tibia II with two thin prolateral or retrolateral ventral spines. Metatarsi I and II with two pairs of ventral spines. Measurements of legs: leg I 2.96 (0.91+0.38+0.65+0.57+0.45), leg II 2.66 (0.78+0.38+0.57+0.49+0.44), leg III 2.71 (0.70+0.37+0.51+0.65+0.48), leg IV missing.

Palp (Figs 1 E–G, 2) as illustrated. RTA blade-shaped, thick and short; embolus tip thin, with broad base, gently curved; conductor membranous, behind embolus; median apophysis sickle-shaped, the base of median apophysis membranous. Tegulum wide, with obvious hook-shaped lobe prolaterally on proximal border; sperm duct faint; subtegulum small and narrow.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality (Fig. 17).

Notes

Published as part of Mu, Yannan, Jin, Chi & Zhang, Feng, 2019, A survey of Agroeca Westring, 1861 from China (Araneae: Liocranidae), pp. 91-112 in Zootaxa 4615 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4615.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3995359

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2011-04-10 , 2012-04-09
Family
Liocranidae
Genus
Agroeca
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Mu & Jin & Zhang
Species
batangensis
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
2011-04-10 , 2012-04-09
Taxonomic concept label
Agroeca batangensis Mu, Jin & Zhang, 2019