Ectatosticta deltshevi, Platnick & Jaeger, 2009

Platnick, Norman & Jaeger, Peter, 2009, A new species of the basal araneomorph spider genus Ectatosticta, ZooKeys 16 (16), pp. 209-215 : 214

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.16.231

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3791820

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FF9F3FC8-8CB0-4912-9D8E-75EA18F2E57E

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scientific name

Ectatosticta deltshevi
status

sp. nov.

Ectatosticta deltshevi View in CoL sp. n.

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Ectatosticta davidi View in CoL (misidentification): Li and Zhu 1984: 510, figs. a-g. Forster et al. 1987: 23, figs. 6-16, 18-20, 23-24, 31-36, 78-82. Song et al. 1999: 41, figs. 11D, 17Q-T. Hu 2001: 69, figs. 1.1-6. Song et al. 2001: 64, figs. 24A-E.

Type. Male holotype from Huangyuan County, Qinghai Province, China, 15.IX.1984, Z.S. Li leg., deposited in IZCAS .

Etymology. The specific name is a patronym in honor of Dr Christo Deltshev.

Diagnosis. Males of E. deltshevi can be distinguished by the form of the specialized setae situated distally on the retrolateral ledge of the palpal tibia, as detailed above, and by the distally more sharply angled embolus ( Forster et al. 1987: fig. 79). Females have the inner pair of spermathecae shorter, less robust, and distally less sclerotized than in E. davidi .

Male. Described by Forster et al. (1987: 23), as E. davidi .

Female. Described by Forster et al. (1987: 23), as E. davidi .

Other material examined. CHINA: Qinghai: Huangyuan County, Sept. 10, 1983 (Z.S. Li, AMNH), 1♁, 1♀ , Sept. 15, 1984 (Z.S. Li, IZCAS), 2♁, 3♀.

Distribution. Known with certainty only from Huangyuan County, Qinghai Province, China. A juvenile taken at an elevation of 2300-2700 m in Beishan National Park, 120 km NE Xining City, Qinghai Province, China, 36°56’N, 102°29’E, 23.V – 8.VI.1996, J. Martens leg. (SMF) may also belong to this species ( Fig. 6 View Figure 6 ).

Forster RR, Platnick NI, Gray MR (1987) A review of the spider superfamilies Hypochiloidea and Austrochiloidea (Araneae, Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 185: 1 - 116.

Hu JL (2001) Spiders in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China. Henan Science and Technology Publishing House, Henan, 658 pp.

Li ZS, Zhu CD (1984) Ectatosticta davidi (Simon, 1888) of China (Araneae: Hypochilidae). Journal of Norman Bethune Medical University 10: 510.

Song DX, Zhu MS, Chen J (1999) The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp.

Song DX, Zhu MS, Chen J (2001) The fauna of Hebei, China: Araneae. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 508 pp.

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Figure 6. Map of China, showing records of Ectatosticta.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Hypochilidae

Genus

Ectatosticta