Weintrauboa Hormiga, 2003

Yang, Zi-Zhong, Zhu, Ming-Sheng & Song, Da-Xiang, 2006, A Newly Recorded Genus And A New Species Of The Spider Family Pimoidae From Yunnan, China (Arachnida: Araneae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (2), pp. 235-239 : 237

Weintrauboa Hormiga, 2003

Weintrauboa Hormiga, 2003: 269 .

Type species. – Linyphia contortipes Karsch, 1881 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. – This genus is similar to Pimoa in body shape

and eye pattern, but differs from the latter by: tibial dorsal process of male palp absent; distal end of cymbium digitiform; cymbial denticulate process absent; cymbial cuspules be located on the dorsal surface ( Figs. 3M - N); a small elongated membrane and the embolic flap connected to the base of the embolus; embolus long; sinuous metatarsal I base in males enlarged or unenlarged; cheliceral stridulatory striae absent; fertilization ducts mesally pointed ( Fig. 2L ).

Description. – see Hormiga, 2003: 272.

Distribution. – Japan, Russia (Far East area) and China (Yunnan).

Figures

Fig. 2. Weintrauboa yunnan, new species, female. G. epigynum, lateral view; H. same, ventral view; I. same, dorsal view; J. epigynum (cleared), lateral view; K. same, ventral view; L. same, dorsal view. Scale bars: G-L = 0.1 mm.