Trochosa ruricoloides Schenkel, 1963

Tso, I-Min & Chen, Jun, 2004, Descriptions Of Three New And Six New Record Wolf Spider Species From Taiwan (Arachnida: Araneae: Lycosidae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2), pp. 399-411 : 407

Trochosa ruricoloides Schenkel, 1963

( Figs. 34-36)

Trochosa ruricoloides Schenkel, 1963: 350 , Fig. 202; Zhu, 1983: 76; Yin et al., 1995: 28, Figs. 23-29; Yin et al., 1997: 157, Fig. 74; Song et al., 1999: 345, Figs. 201I, Q.

Material examined. – 1 male, Kenting National Park , Pingtong County, Taiwan, Mar.2000, coll. Yu-Lung Hsieh (NMNS-THU-Ar- 01-0104) ; 1 male, Kenting National Park , Pingtong County, Taiwan, Jul.2000, coll. Yu-Lung Hsieh (NMNS-THU-Ar-02-0166) .

Description. – Male: One specimen: total length 6.37, carapace length 3.37, width 2.33; abdomen length 3.19, width 1.59. Another specimen: carapace length 2.82, width 2.02 (abdomen damaged). Body pale. Median band of carapace distinct, anterior part with a pair of longitudinal dark marks. Anterior eye row slightly recurved, AME larger then ALE. Annulations of legs indistinct. Cymbium of pedipalp with a thick terminal setae. Median apophysis of pedipalp organ rectangular shaped and directed laterally, distal half part of its anterior margin folded toward ventral side, and base of this part slightly extended toward inside, forming an angular prominence ( Figs. 34-35).

Distribution. – Taiwan, Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan, Tibet, Sichuan, Shaanxi.