Taira Lehtinen 1967
Authors/Creators
- 1. Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China. & 1131732591 @ qq. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4344 - 0300
- 2. Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China. & wangluyu 1989 @ 163. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5250 - 3473
- 3. Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China. & irfanuos 94 @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0445 - 9612
- 4. Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
Description
Taira Lehtinen, 1967: 266; Zhang et al. 2008: 502; Wang et al. 2010: 61; Zhu et al. 2017: 573.
Type species. Amaurobius flavidorsalis Yaginuma, 1964, by original designation and monotypy.
Diagnosis. The genus Taira most closely resembles Amaurobius C.L. Koch, 1837 in having a similar median apophysis on the bulb of the male palp; retrolateral and branched dorsal apophyses on the tibia of the male palp; and the presence of teeth and a wide median lobe in the same position as the copulatory ducts in the epigyne. Taira, however, differs from Amaurobius by the following characters: tegular apophysis protruding distally in Taira, whereas arising basally in Amaurobius; retrolateral tibial apophysis (RTA) slightly protruding in Taira, whereas strongly protruding in Amaurobius; exterior branch of the dorsal tibial apophysis (eDTA) shorter than the interior branch of dorsal tibial apophysis (iDTA) in males of Taira, whereas eDTA longer than iDTA in Amaurobius males (Figs 3C–E, 25C–E); epigynal teeth wide in Taira females, whereas narrow in Amaurobius females; fertilization ducts retrolaterally curved in Taira females, whereas prolaterally curved in Amaurobius females (Figs 3F, G, 25F, G).
Distribution. China, Japan and East Malaysia (Borneo) (Figs 24, 28).
Composition and species groups division. Seventeen species are currently assigned into two species groups: the T. flavidorsalis species - group and the T. qiuae species - group.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lehtinen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Amaurobiidae
- Genus
- Taira
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Taira Lehtinen, 1967 sec. Zhao, Wang, Irfan & Zhang, 2021
References
- Lehtinen, P. T. (1967) Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 4, 199 - 468.
- Zhang, Z. S., Zhu, M. S. & Song, D. X. (2008) Revision of the spider genus Taira (Araneae, Amaurobiidae, Amaurobiinae). Journal of Arachnology, 36, 502 - 512. https: // doi. org / 10.1636 / H 07 - 49.1
- Wang, X. P., Jager, P. & Zhang, Z. S. (2010) The genus Taira, with notes on tibial apophyses and descriptions of three new species. Journal of Arachnology, 38, 57 - 72. https: // doi. org / 10.1636 / A 09 - 19.1
- Zhu, M. S., Wang, X. P. & Zhang, Z. S. (2017) Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata. Vol. 59. Arachnida: Araneae: Agelenidae and Amaurobiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 727 pp.
- Yaginuma, T. (1964) A new spider of Amaurobius (5 Ciniflo) from Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Miscellaneous Report of the Hiwa Museum for Natural History, 7, 20 - 23.