Priscaleclercera chimei Jiang & Li 2022, sp. nov.
Authors/Creators
- 1. College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning, China & Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar Corresponding authors, E-mails: yaozy @ synu. edu. cn; lisq @ ioz. ac. cn
- 2. Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- 3. College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning, China
Description
Holotype. Male (IZCAS-Ar42688Fo). Late Cretaceous amber from Hukawng Valley. Syninclusion includes one mite. Paratype male (IZCAS-Ar42689Fo). Late Cretaceous amber from Hukawng Valley. No biotic syninclusions.
Etymology. The species name is a popular Burmese boy’s name and means “everlasting or immortal”; noun in apposition.
Diagnosis. The new species can be distinguished from all other Priscaleclercera species by the shape of the palpal sclerites: sclerite 1 with 3 apices; sclerite 2 with two needle-shaped, strongly sclerotized structures distally; sclerite 3 with sclerotized structure with membranous margin.
Description. Male (holotype): carapace 0.75 long, 0.52 wide; opisthosoma absent. Left palp: 1.26 (0.62 + 0.13 + 0.51), legs absent. Eye sizes and interdistances: ALE 0.03, PLE 0.03, PME 0.04, PLE–PME 0.04. Habitus as in Figs 17A–B. Carapace oval (Fig. 17A), brown; six eyes (Fig. 17A) almost ovoid, PME> ALE = PLE; labium not visible.
Palp (Figs 16A–B, 18). At least five short macrosetae ventrally on femur; cymbium 0.45 long, 0.12 wide, with dense brown setae; cymbium with three macrosetae: a long, curved retrolateral one with a hook, and two preapical, short, subconical ones. The bulb bears three sclerites apically. Sclerite 1 and 2 slender, sclerotized. Sclerite 3 forked, with triangular apophysis.
Male (paratype, Figs 17C–D). Late Cretaceous amber from Hukawng Valley. No biotic syninclusions. Total length 1.42; Carapace 0.59 long, 0.45 wide; Opisthosoma 0.83 long. Left palp: 0.87 (0.42 + 0.12+ 0.33), left leg I: - (2.25 + 0.22 + - + - + -), leg II: - (1.84 + 0.18 + - + - + -), leg III: 3.86 (1.16 + 0.12 + 1.21 + 0.94 + 0.43), leg IV: 5.89 (1.78 + 0.23 + 1.86 + 1.51 + 0.51); right palp: 0.72 (0.38 + 0.12 + 0.22), right leg I absent, leg II: 6.44 (1.92 + 0.22 + 2.15 + 1.6 + 0.55), leg III: 4.00 (1.24 + 0.21 + 1.08 + 1.06 + 0.41), leg IV: 5.98 (1.71 + 0.22 + 2.01 + 1.64 + 0.40). Eye sizes and interdistances: ALE 0.04, PLE 0.05, PME 0.04, PLE–PME 0.04. Habitus as in Figs 17C–D. Carapace ovoid, brown; clypeus brown, slanted; chelicerae 0.26 long. Abdomen light yellow, elongate. Anterior lateral spinnerets cylindrical.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- II, III
- Scientific name authorship
- Jiang & Li
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Psilodercidae
- Genus
- Priscaleclercera
- Species
- chimei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Priscaleclercera chimei Jiang & Li, 2022