<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Atractides (Atractides) cameronensis Pesic & Smit, 2010, sp. nov.</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"/> </head> <body> <h1> <i>Atractides (Atractides) cameronensis</i> sp. nov.</h1> <p>(Fig. 9 A–D)</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype: male dissected and slide mounted in Hoyer's fluid, Malaysia, stream crossing Mt. Brinchang Road, Cameron Highlands, 4 ° 31.458 N 101 ° 23.353 E, alt. 1860 m, 19.ii. 2009.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Coxae fused to a coxal shield; setae S- 1 and - 2 narrow setal interspace; Leg- 6 curved, from the centre to the claw furrow moderately tapering; Vgl- 1 fused with Vgl- 2.</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> General features: Integument dorsally smooth. Muscle attachment plates unsclerotized. Coxae fused to a coxal shield; Cx- 4 posteriorly with an extended posterior margin of secondary sclerotization. Genital field: Ac in an obtuse triangle; anterior margin convex, with a large border of secondary sclerotization. Excretory pore smooth; Vgl- 1 fused with Vgl- 2. Palp: weak sexual dimorphism; P- 2 ventral margin straight, sword seta of P- 4 between ventral setae insertions. I-Leg: setae S- 1 and - 2 narrow setal interspace, S- 1 slender, with truncate tip, S- 2 enlarged, bluntly pointed; I-Leg- 6 curved, basally slightly thickened, from the centre to the claw furrow moderately tapering.</p> <p>Male. Idiosoma L/W 342 / 288. Coxal field (Fig. 9 A): L 222, Cx- 3 W 234. Palp (Fig. 9 D): total L 204, dL and %L (in parentheses): P-1, 20 (9.8); P-2, 41 (20.1); P-3, 51 (25.0); P-4, 65 (31.9); P-5, 27 (13.2); L P- 2 /P- 4 ratio, 0.63. Genital field (Fig. 9 B): L/W 79 / 82, L Ac- 1-3: 26 –27, 26–27, 23– 25.</p> <p>I-Leg (Fig. 9 C): I-Leg- 5 dL 108, vL 72, dL/vL, HB 32, dL/HB 3.4, S- 1 L 66, L/W 8.6, S- 2 L 54, L/W 4.9, distance of sword setae at I-Leg- 5 11, L S- 1 / 2 1.2; I-Leg- 6 L 92, HB 14, L/HB 6.57; L I-Leg- 5 / 6 1.2</p> <p>Female. Unknown.</p> <p> <b>Etymology</b>. The species is named after the Cameron Highlands, where it was collected.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> Due to the coxae fused to a coxal shield in the males, <i>Atractides cameronensis</i> <b>sp. nov</b>. resembles <i>Atractides conjunctus</i> (Viets, 1935) and <i>A. conjunctellus</i> Lundblad, 1971, both species known only from Java. From <i>Atractides cameronensis</i> <b>sp. nov</b>., the later species, differ in more slender I-Leg- 6, and much wider setal interspace (see: Lundblad 1971). The new species from Malaysia differs from <i>A. conjunctus</i> in the fused Vgl- 1 + 2 (unfused in <i>A. conjunctus</i>; cannot be discussed for <i>A. conjunctellus</i> because information/ illustrations on this character are lacking in the original description), and a more slender I-Leg- 6 (thickened in <i>A. conjunctus</i> – see: Viets 1935).</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Known only from the type locality in Malaysia.</p> </body> </html>