Pholcus satun Huber, 2011

Figs 147–149, 169–170, 187–189

Pholcus satun Huber, 2011: 144, figs 515–516, 580–582 (♂).

Diagnosis

Easily distinguished from all known congeners by long sickle-shaped bulbal process and by unique shape of procursus (long, S-shaped, with subdistal ventral pointed process; fig. 580 in Huber 2011); from other species in the buatong group also by longer than wide female internal genitalia (Fig. 170).

New material examined

THAILAND: 1 ♀, in absolute ethanol, ZFMK (Mal 328), Satun, Thaleban National Park (6°42.6' N, 100°10.2' E) (type locality), forest near headquarters, 110 m a.s.l., leaf litter, 5 Mar. 2015 (B.A. Huber, B. Petcharad) .

MALAYSIA: 1 ♀, ZFMK (Ar 15047), Kedah, Gunung Jerai, forest near Sri Perigi Waterfall (5°48.3' N, 100°24.6' E), 100–200 m a.s.l., 27 Feb. 2015 (B.A. Huber) ; 2 ♀♀, 1 juv., in absolute ethanol, ZFMK (Mal 288), same data; 1 ♂, ZFMK (Ar 15048), same data, collected penultimate, adult on 2–3 Mar. 2015 .

Description (female)

In general similar to male (Fig. 149; cf. Huber 2011), but eye triads on low humps and closer together (distance PME-PME: 185 µm) and black mark at ocular area smaller. AME present as in male. Tibia 1 in 3 females: 5.5, 5.6, 6.1. Epigynum longer than wide, mostly weakly sclerotized, with large dark ‘knob’ at posterior margin, anterior internal arch visible through cuticle (Figs 169, 187–188); posterior plate laterally slightly more sclerotized. Internal genitalia as in Figs 170 and 189.

Distribution

Known from two localities in southern Thailand and northern mainland Malaysia (Fig. 153).