Wuliphantes tongluensis (Chen & Song, 1988)

Yang, Lan, Yao, Zhiyuan & Li, Shuqiang, 2023, A new species of Wuliphantes from Sichuan, China, with re-description on the type specimens of W. tongluensis (Araneae, Linyphiidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 114390-114390 : 114390

Wuliphantes tongluensis (Chen & Song, 1988)

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Zhangfu Chen ; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: A9FF000B-0D6A-5E86-A968-908141E179EB; Taxon : order: Araneae ; family: Linyphiidae ; genus: Wuliphantes ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Zhejiang; municipality: Hangzhou ; locality: Tonglu County ; Event : year: 1985; month: 6; day: 6; Record Level : institutionCode: IZCAS-Ar 10017 Type status: Allotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Zhangfu Chen ; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 4B1CA516-2BA3-53EB-9A50-E1E8EE6D7CAC; Taxon : order: Araneae ; family: Linyphiidae ; genus: Wuliphantes ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Zhejiang; municipality: Hangzhou ; locality: Tonglu County ; Event : year: 1985; month: 6; day: 6; Record Level : institutionCode: IZCAS-Ar 10018 Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Lihong Tu, Shuqiang Li; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 1C4FDE70-E845-5D57-A51D-0A6E548A22F2; Taxon: order: Araneae; family: Linyphiidae ; genus: Wuliphantes ; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Hunan; municipality: Hengshan ; locality: Nanyue District ; verbatimLocality: Nanyue Hengshan Scenic Area ; Event : year: 2003; month: 10; day: 11; Record Level : institutionCode: IZCAS

Description

For measurements data of Wuliphantes tongluensis , see Chen and Song (1988).

Female (Holotype). Colour faded (Fig. 1 a). Epigyne (Fig. 2 a). Ventral plate wider than long; copulatory openings apparent, present posteriorly; dorsal plate inverted triangle; copulatory ducts forming five loops; spermathecae spiral; fertilisation ducts pointing antero-medially.

Male (Allotype). Colour faded (Fig. 1 b). Palp (Figs 3 , 5 a). Tibia conical; paracymbium U-shaped in retrolateral view, with wide base and narrow end; tegulum semicircle, with subtriangular protegulum; embolic plate well-developed, with ribbon-like ventral projection of embolic plate, the narrow distal protrusion faces right on the retrolateral view; embolus spiral, with two and a half coils, originating at 6 o’clock position in prolateral view.

Diagnosis

The species resembles Wuliphantes yaan sp. nov. with similar paracymbium and subtegulum, but can be distinguished by the embolus forming 2.5 coils (Figs 3 , 5 a; 1.5 coils in W. yaan sp. nov.); by the width of ventral projection of embolic plate increasing distally (Fig. 3 a; width almost consistent in W. yaan sp. nov.); by the ventral projection of embolic plate with sharp and narrow distal protrusion (Fig. 3 a; hooked in W. yaan sp. nov.); and by the copulatory ducts with five loops (Fig. 2 a; two loops in W. yaan sp. nov.).

Distribution

China (Zhejiang, type locality; Anhui; Chongqing; Hubei; Hunan).

Figures

Figure 1. Wuliphantes tongluensis, habitus of female holotype and male allotype, dorsal view (a, b) and original labels (c). a female; b male; c original labels. Scale bars: 0.50 mm (a, b).

Figure 3. Wuliphantes tongluensis, allotype male, left palp. a prolateral view; b ventral view; c retrolateral view. Scale bar: 0.10 mm (a-c).