Chinophrys, Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P., 2012

Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P., 2012, New euophryine jumping spiders from Southeast Asia and Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae), Zootaxa 3581, pp. 53-80 : 54

Genus Chinophrys gen. nov.

Type species: Chinophrys pengi Zhang & Maddison , sp. nov.

Etymology. The generic name is combined of “ Chin ” of “ China ”, origin of the type species and “ ophrys ” referring to the jumping spider genus “ Euophrys ”, which has similar color pattern and body form as this genus; feminine in gender.

Diagnosis. Medium sized spiders. Chelicera with multiple (four to six) promarginal teeth and one fissident retromarginal tooth of five to six cusps ( Fig. 5 ). Embolus long and coiled; tegulum with a proximal lobe over tibia ( Figs 3–4 ). Epigynal window present with a median septum ( Fig. 8 ). Copulatory duct not highly convoluted; spermatheca swollen and divided into head and body ( Fig. 9 ). Chinophrys is similar in body form and color to Euophrys C. L. Koch , but differs in genital structure and teeth pattern of chelicera.

Remarks. Based on the original description, Laufeia liujiapingensis Yang & Tang, 1997 is transferred to Chinophrys , because of its similarities in cheliceral teeth pattern and palpal structure with the type species (NEW COMBINATION).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 9. Chinophrys pengi sp. nov. 1 male holotype, dorsal view; 2 female paratype, dorsal view; 3 male left palp, ventral view; 4 male left palp, retrolateral view; 5 male left chelicera, back view; 6 male endites and labium, ventral view; 7 female endites and labium, ventral view; 8 epigynum, ventral view; 9 cleared epigynum, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 – 2, 1.0 mm; 3 – 9, 0.2 mm.