Published August 13, 2021 | Version v1
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Taira Lehtinen 1967

  • 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 qiuae-group

Diagnosis. Male spiders in the T. qiuae species-group (Figs 25C–E, 26C–E, 27C–E) can be differentiated from male spiders in the T. flavidoralis species-group by the following combination of characters: tibia of male palp with two retrolateral apophyses in the T. qiuae species-group, whereas with a single or degenerated apophysis in the T. flavidorsalis species - group; dorsal tibial apophysis with some small teeth-like apophyses, not bifurcated in the T. qiuae species-group, whereas obviously branched in T. flavidorsalis- group; conductor with additional and strongly sclerotized apophysis in the T. qiuae species-group, whereas membranous in T. flavidorsalis- group; tegular apophysis present at the top of the tegulum, covering most of embolus in ventral view in the T. qiuae species-group, whereas originating from the area between the base of conductor and embolus in the T. flavidorsalis species - group. Female spiders in the T. qiuae species-group (Figs 25F, G, 26F, G, 27F, G) can be distinguished from female spiders in the T. flavidoralis species-group by the following characters: lateral margins of the epigynal median lobe indistinct in the T. qiuae species-group, whereas distinct in the T. flavidorsalis- group; spermathecae long in the T. qiuae speciesgroup, whereas oval to round in the T. flavidorsalis species - group; fertilization ducts much longer in the T. qiuae species-group than in the T. flavidorsalis species - group.

Composition and distribution. Three species are included and all are known only from China: Taira qiuae Wang, Jäger & Zhang, 2010 (♂ ♀), T. sichuanensis Wang, Jäger & Zhang, 2010 (♂ ♀), T. zhui Wang, Jäger & Zhang, 2010 (♂ ♀) (Fig. 28).

Notes

Published as part of Zhao, Jing-Xia, Wang, Lu-Yu, Irfan, Muhammad & Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, 2021, Furtherrevisionofthemesh-webspidergenus TairaLehtinen, 1967 (Amaurobiidae) with the description of six new species, pp. 457-488 in Zootaxa 5020 (3) on page 481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5020.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5223576

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Additional details

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

  • 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