Himalaphantes Tanasevitch, 1992
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Genus Himalaphantes Tanasevitch, 1992
Diagnosis.
Himalaphantes is closely related to Herbiphantes Tanasevitch, 1992 in having the similar long legs, male palp tibia, modified male chelicerae and similar morphology of embolic division in palp ( Tanasevitch 1992: fig. 1b, d, f), but it can be distinguished by the following features: posterior pocket of paracymbium with well-developed projection with blunt ( Zhu and Zhang 2011: fig. 80D, E) to bifurcated end (Figs 4B, D View Figure 4 , 7B, D View Figure 7 ), whereas posterior pocket of paracymbium absent in Herbiphantes ( Tanasevitch 1992: fig. 1a, c, e). Well-developed proximal cymbial apophysis in Himalaphantes species (Figs 4A-C View Figure 4 , 7A-C View Figure 7 ; Tanasevitch 1987: figs 1-3), whereas absent in Herbiphantes (Irfan and Peng 2019: figs 4A, B, D, 5A, B; Tanasevitch 1992: fig. 1a, c, e). Female epigyne can be distinguished from Herbiphantes species by the proscape small/enlarged with posterior margin smooth and/or posterior margin with small protuberance laterally in Himalaphantes species (Figs 1A, B View Figure 1 , 5A, B View Figure 5 , 8A, B View Figure 8 ; Tanasevitch 1992: figs 4-9), whereas posterior margin of proscape lacks any of small protuberance laterally in Herbiphantes (Irfan and Peng 2019: figs 6A-C, 7A, B; Tanasevitch 1992: fig. 2a-h); stretcher present in Himalaphantes species (Figs 1A-C View Figure 1 , 5A-C View Figure 5 , 8A-C View Figure 8 ; Tanasevitch 1992: figs. 4-9), whereas stretcher absent in Herbiphantes (Irfan and Peng 2019: figs 6A-C, 7A, B; Tanasevitch 1992: fig. 2a-h); posterior median plate relatively reduced and unmodified in Himalaphantes species (Figs 1C View Figure 1 , 5C View Figure 5 , 8C View Figure 8 ; Tanasevitch 1992: fig. 3e), whereas enlarged and modified in Herbiphantes (Irfan and Peng 2019: figs 6A-C, 7A, B; Tanasevitch 1992: fig. 2b, f, i).
Composition.
By addition of three new congeners, the genus Himalaphantes now comprises of seven species: H. arcuatus sp. nov. ♀, from China; H. azumiensis from Russia, Japan, and China; H. grandiculus from Nepal; H. lingulatus sp. nov. ♂♀, from China; H. magnus from Nepal; H. martensi (Thaler, 1987) from India and Nepal; and H. uncatus sp. nov. ♂♀, from China.
Distribution.
China, India, Japan, Nepal and Russia.
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