Published December 27, 2022 | Version v1
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Gracilentus Irfan & Zhang & Peng 2022, gen. nov.

  • 1. College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.

Description

Gracilentus gen. nov. (dzƦø)

Type species: Gracilentus denticulatus sp. nov.. (ØdzdzƦ)

Etymology. The genus name comes from the Latin adjective “ Gracilentus ”, meaning “simple”, referring to the simple paracymbium in the male palp. Gender is masculine.

Diagnosis. Gracilentus gen. nov. can be distinguished from any other Erigoninae genus by the embolic division with broad round radix, anterior margin with a tongueshaped projection, giving rise to stout embolus covered by the convector, embolus hidden on unexpanded palp (Fig. 120A, C, 121A–C). Epigyne with ventral plate longer than wide, protruding above the epigastric furrow posteriorly, posterior margin irregular. Copulatory ducts extending above or behind the spermathecae anteriorly with or without fused loop (Fig. 122A–C).

Notes

Published as part of Irfan, Muhammad, Zhang, Zhi-Sheng & Peng, Xian-Jin, 2022, Survey of Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) spiders from Yunnan, China, pp. 1-292 in Megataxa 8 (1) on page 101, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.8.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7526571

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Irfan & Zhang & Peng
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Linyphiidae
Genus
Gracilentus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Gracilentus Irfan, Zhang & Peng, 2022