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Ectatosticta deltshevi Platnick & Jager 2009

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  • 4. Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.

Description

Ectatosticta deltshevi Platnick & Jäger, 2009

Figures 1F, 7A–C, 15C, 16C, 17D, 19

Ectatosticta davidi: Li & Zhu 1984: 510, figs a–g (♂ ♀); Forster, Platnick & Gray 1987: 23, figs 6–16, 18–20, 23–24, 31–36, 78–82 (♂ ♀); Song, Zhu & Chen 1999: 41, figs 11D, 17Q– T (♂ ♀); Hu 2001: 69, figs 1.1–6 (♂ ♀); Song, Zhu & Chen 2001: 64, figs 24A–E (♂ ♀).

Ectatosticta deltshevi Platnick & Jäger, 2009: 214; Lin & Li 2020: 20, figs 1, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6A–C, 7A–B (♂ ♀).

Material examined. 1 male and 1 female, China, Qinghai Province, Huangyuan County, 10 September 1983, Z.S. Li leg.; 12 females, Huangyuan County, 36°40′50″ N, 101°15′37″ E, elev. 2620 m, 26 July 2018, L.Y. Wang and Y.N. Mu leg.

Diagnosis. Male of this species resembles E. rulai Lin & Li, 2021 (Figs 10A–C, 15F–G, 16F–G) in having two strong setae on cymbial lobe, but differs from the latter by the short embolic base and the thin conductor (Figs 7A–C, 15C, 16C). Female of this species resembles E. yukuni Lin & Li, 2021 (Fig. 18F) in having two pairs of spermathecae, and ventral spermathecae two times longer than dorsal spermathecae, but differs from the latter by the strong ventral spermathecae (Fig. 17D).

Description. See Forster, Platnick & Gray (1987) as E. davidi. Habitus, male palp and female genitalia as in Figs 1F, 7A–C, 15C, 16C, 17D.

Distribution. China (Qinghai) (Fig. 19).

Notes

Published as part of Wang, Lu-Yu, Zhao, Jing-Xia, Irfan, Muhammad & Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, 2021, Review of the spider genus Ectatosticta Simon, 1892 (Araneae: Hypochilidae) with description of four new species from China, pp. 523-542 in Zootaxa 5016 (4) on pages 529-530, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5016.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5222521

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
T
Event date
1983-09-10 , 2018-07-26
Verbatim event date
1983-09-10 , 2018-07-26
Scientific name authorship
Platnick & Jager
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Hypochilidae
Genus
Ectatosticta
Species
deltshevi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ectatosticta deltshevi Platnick, 2009 sec. Wang, Zhao, Irfan & Zhang, 2021

References

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