Published December 31, 2019 | Version v1
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Speocera huisun 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 huisun Li & Li sp. nov. (Figs 28, 58H)

Material examined. Holotype ♀ (IZCAS), China, Taiwan Province, Nantou County, Huisun Forest Farm (24º5.279′N, 121º2.078′E), elev. 788 m, 30.VI.2013, leg. S. Li.

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

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to S. suea Li & Li sp. nov. but can be distinguished by the oval spermathecae and long afferent spermathecae (cf. Figs 28A–B and Figs 41A–B).

Description. Female. Total length 1.27; carapace length 0.52; carapace width 0.42; abdomen length 0.71; abdomen width 0.53. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; shiny, light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern (Fig. 28C); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide (Fig. 28D). Endites light yellow with serrula; labium light yellow. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles (Fig. 58H). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation; PME and ALE subequal, PLE largest (Fig. 28C). Opisthosoma oval; purplish (Fig. 28D). Legs missing. Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae long, extending past the sides of the abdomen (Fig. 28B); spermathecae oval (Fig. 28A).

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 33-38, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201901, http://zenodo.org/record/5366923

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
IZCAS
Event date
2013-06-30
Verbatim event date
2013-06-30
Scientific name authorship
Li & Li
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Ochyroceratidae
Genus
Speocera
Species
huisun
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Speocera huisun Li & Li, 2019