Phintella liae Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023

Wang, Cheng, Gan, Jiahui & Mi, Xiaoqi, 2024, On two species of Phintella Strand, 1906 from Hainan, China (Araneae, Salticidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 138400-e 138400 : e138400-

Phintella liae Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualID: TRU-JS 0827; individualCount: 1; sex: male; associatedSequences: GenBank: PQ 412691; occurrenceID: 17184FC9-EE41-590B-90DA-FC6B50E5F51A; Taxon: scientificName: Phintella liae Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 ; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Hainan; county: Baisha Li Autonomous; locality: Yuanmen Township, around of Hongkan Waterfall ; verbatimElevation: 565 m; verbatimLatitude: 19°4.94′N; verbatimLongitude: 109°30.03′E; Identification: identifiedBy: Cheng Wang; Event: samplingProtocol: beating shrubs; year: 2024; month: 9; day: 17

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualID: TRU-JS 0828; individualCount: 1; sex: female; associatedSequences: GenBank: PQ 412692; occurrenceID: AFD822E1-CBAC-5194-8ABB-DDA635EF866A; Taxon: scientificName: Phintella liae Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 ; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Hainan; county: Baisha Li Autonomous; locality: Yuanmen Township, around of Hongkan Waterfall ; verbatimElevation: 565 m; verbatimLatitude: 19°4.94′N; verbatimLongitude: 109°30.03′E; Identification: identifiedBy: Cheng Wang; Event: samplingProtocol: beating shrubs; year: 2024; month: 9; day: 17

Description

Male (Fig. 3 A-D). See Wang et al. (2023).

Female (Fig. 3 E-G). Total length 3.15. Carapace 1.59 long, 1.28 wide. Abdomen 1.60 long, 1.15 wide. Eye sizes and inter distances: AME 0.41, ALE 0.22, PME 0.21, AERW 1.24, PERW 1.25, EFL 0.82. Legs: I 2.59 (0.68, 0.48, 0.63, 0.50, 0.30), II 2.44 (0.68, 0.45, 0.58, 0.43, 0.30), III 3.01 (0.88, 0.40, 0.68, 0.70, 0.35), IV 3.69 (1.13, 0.48, 0.88, 0.85, 0.35). Carapace yellow to dark yellow, covered with clusters of white scale-like setae between PLEs and PMEs, with pair of dark patches inner to PMEs and sub-triangular dark patch posteriorly on thorax; fovea red, longitudinal. Chelicerae red yellow, with two promarginal teeth and one retromarginal tooth. Endites sub-square, with scopulae on antero-inner portions. Labium darker than endites. Sternum almost oval, with straight anterior margin. Legs pale yellow. Abdomen oval, dorsum mainly yellow, with white and dark scale-like setal stripes; venter pale.

Epigyne (Fig. 3 F and G): wider than long, with broad basal epigynal plate with two lateral protrudings; copulatory openings anteriorly located, almost slit-shaped; copulatory ducts curved into C-shape at proximal and then downward descending to connect to ventro-median portions of spermathecae; spermathecae oval, touched; fertilisation ducts lamellar. l

Diagnosis

The male was thoroughly diagnosed in Wang et al. (2023). The female of this species resembles that of P. dives (Simon, 1899) in having a similar epigyne, but it can be easily distinguished by the distance between protrudings of basal epigynal plates, which is about three-fifths the epigynal width (Fig. 3 F) versus less than half of the epigynal width in P. dives and by the presence of anterior curved portions of spermathecae (Fig. 3 G) versus absent in P. dives (see the drawings of Prószyński (1984)).

Distribution

China (Guangxi, Hainan).

Figures

Figure 3. Phintella liae Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023, A - D male (TRU-JS 0827) and E - G female (TRU-JS 0828). A palp, ventral; B ditto, retrolateral; C ditto, dorsal; D, E habitus, dorsal; F epigyne, ventral; G vulva, dorsal. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (A - C, F, G); 0.5 mm (D, E).