Xysticus gobiensis Marusik & Logunov, 2002

Marusik, Yuri M. & Omelko, Mikhail M., 2014, Reconsideration of Xysticus species described by Ehrenfried Schenkel from Mongolia and China in 1963 (Araneae: Thomisidae), Zootaxa 3861 (3), pp. 275-289 : 280

Xysticus gobiensis Marusik & Logunov, 2002

Figs 1 , 28–29 , 36–38

X. laticeps Schenkel, 1963: 238 , figs 133 (♀; preoccupied by Bryant 1933). X. g. Marusik & Logunov, 2002: 316, figs 1–5 (♂♀, replacement name). For whole list of references see Platnick (2014).

Type material. Holotype ♀ [examined], only epigyne, body missing, no geographical label, just “#51”. Text label: “Schargol-dschut am Fluss Tui, innere Mongolei, 11. IX 86 ”. Label in introduction corresponding to the number in vial (51): “ 18.VIII.1885 Dorf (?) Sjaopu, Szetschuan”.

Comments. Name of locality and of river “Shorol’-Djut” (Шороль-Джут) near Orog Nuur in Tuin Gol River valley was mentioned in Potanin’s itinerary. This place is located in modern Mongolia in Bayankhongor Aimag ( Fig. 1 ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Type localities of 16 Xysticus species described by Schenkel in 1963 and of X. courti sp. n. Numbers in squares for X. bonneti refer to numbers in square brackets in the list of localities.

FIGURES 26 – 31. Bassaniana decorata (26 – 27, holotype ♀ of Xysticus pichoni), holotypes of X. gobiensis (28 – 29, ♀) and X. courti sp. n. (30 – 31, ♂). 26, 28 — epigyne, ventral; 27, 30 — habitus, dorsal; 29 — epigyne, dorsal; 31 — prosoma, frontal. Scale = 0.2 mm [26, 28, 31], 1 mm [27, 30].

FIGURES 32 – 39. Male palp of Xysticus courti sp. n. (32 – 35), X. gobiensis (36 – 38) and X. sibiricus (39). 32, 36 — ventral; 33, 37 — retrolateral; 34 — prolateral; 35 — bulbus, retrolateral; 38 – 39 embolus, retrolateral. Scale = 0.2 mm. Abbreviations: Pp pars pendula; Tr tegular ridge.