Published December 31, 2019 | Version v1
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Speocera batang Li & Li 2019, sp. nov.

  • 1. Life Science College, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, China
  • 2. Southeast Asia Biological Diversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar & Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  • 3. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  • 4. College of Life Science, Langfang Normal University, Langfang 065000, China Corresponding author, E-mail: lisq @ ioz. ac. cn

Description

Speocera batang Li & Li sp. nov. (Figs 10, 58B)

Material examined. Holotype ♀ (IZCAS), Indonesia, Sumatra, West Sumatra Province, Kab Agam Kecamatan Matur, Kanagarian Matuailia, Batang Lawang Cave (0º15.739′S, 100º18.491′E), elev. 761 m, 12.I.2014, leg. H. Zhao.

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the type locality; noun.

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to S. lahrak Li & Li sp. nov., but females can be distinguished by the small, oval spermathecae (Fig. 10A). S. lahrak Li & Li sp. nov. has very large, elongated, oval spermathecae (Fig. 30A).

Description. Female. Total length 1.18; carapace length 0.52; carapace width 0.43; abdomen length 0.67; abdomen width 0.45. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern (Fig. 10C); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide (Fig. 10D). Endites light yellow suffused with purplish tinge; with serrula; labium light yellow suffused with purplish tinge. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles (Fig. 58B). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation; PME smallest, PLE largest (Fig. 10C). Opisthosoma oval; purplish (Fig. 10D). Legs light yellow; leg lengths I 1.89 (0.51, 0.17, 0.54, 0.39, 0.28); II 1.73 (0.50, 0.16, 0.46, 0.36, 0.26); III, IV missing. Genitalia. Internal genitalia with short, curved afferent spermathecae, not extending past the sides of the abdomen (Fig. 10B); spermathecae oval (Fig. 10A).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.

Notes

Published as part of Tong, Yanfeng, Li, Fengyuan, Song, Yang, Chen, Haifeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2019, Thirty-two new species of the genus Speocera Berland, 1914 (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from China, Madagascar and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-75 in Zoological Systematics 44 (1) on pages 4-13, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201901, http://zenodo.org/record/5366923

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
IZCAS
Event date
2014-01-12
Family
Ochyroceratidae
Genus
Speocera
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Li & Li
Species
batang
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2014-01-12
Taxonomic concept label
Speocera batang Li & Li, 2019