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Telema grandidens Tong & Li 2008

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Telema grandidens Tong & Li, 2008

T. grandidens Tong & Li, 2008a: 366, f. 1C, 4A–H. (Male holotype, 2 males and 2 female paratypes from China: Guizhou: Bayoudadong Cave, Xinhe Village, Xiasi Town [25º26ʹN, 107º25ʹE], Dushan County, 21 May. 2005, Y.F. Tong and Y.C. Lin leg., deposited in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, examined).

Material examined. Paratypes: 13 males and 16 females (IZCAS) from CHINA: Guizhou: Bayoudadong Cave, Xinhe Village, Xiasi Town, Dushan County [25º26΄N, 107º25΄E], 21 May 2005, Y.F. Tong and Y.C. Lin leg.

Diagnosis. Telema grandidens is similar to T. dongbei Wang & Ran, 1998, but may be distinguished by the embolus broader distally, the presence of a large tooth at the middle of fang furrow and the spermatheca narrow basally (Tong & Li, 2008a, fig. 4 B–E, H).

Description. See Tong and Li (2008a).

Distribution. China (Guizhou) (Fig. 20).

Notes

Published as part of Lin, Yucheng & Li, Shuqiang, 2010, Long-legged cave spiders (Araneae, Telemidae) from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwestern China, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 2445 on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.195036

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Tong & Li
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Telemidae
Genus
Telema
Species
grandidens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Telema grandidens Tong, 2008 sec. Lin & Li, 2010

References

  • Tong, Y. F. & Li, S. Q. (2008 a) Four new cave-dwelling Telema spiders (Araneae, telemidae) from Guizhou Province, China. Zoosystema, 30, 1 - 10.
  • Wang, X. P. & Ran, J. C. (1998) A new cave spider of the genus Telema (Araneae: Telemidae) from China. Acta Zoologica Taiwanica, 9, 93 - 96.