Published December 31, 2022 | Version v1
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Priscaleclercera chimei Jiang & Li 2022, sp. nov.

  • 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

Priscaleclercera chimei Jiang & Li, sp. nov. (Figs 16–18)

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.

Notes

Published as part of Xin, Yafei, Jiang, Tongyao, Yao, Zhiyuan & Li, Shuqiang, 2022, Twenty new spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from Late Cretaceous Kachin amber (Myanmar), pp. 1-65 in Zoological Systematics 47 (1) on pages 18-21, DOI: 10.11865/zs.2022101, http://zenodo.org/record/7176146

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Additional details

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