Pholcus ledang Huber, 2011

Bernard A. Huber, Joseph K. H. Koh, Amir-Ridhwan M. Ghazali, Kamil A. Braima, Olga M. Nuñeza, Charles Leh Moi Ung & Booppa Petcharad, 2016, New leaf- and litter-dwelling species of the genus Pholcus from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 200, pp. 1-45 : 16-17

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2016.200

publication LSID

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:404329BA-FD12-4F24-ABB6-0AC78A11DE54

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6074638

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pholcus ledang Huber, 2011
status

 

Pholcus ledang Huber, 2011 View in CoL

Figs 36–38 View Figs 32 – 38 , 48–58 View Figs 48 – 53 View Figs 54 – 58

Pholcus ledang Huber, 2011: 180 View in CoL , figs 753–756, 781–783, 814–818 (♂♀).

Diagnosis

Easily distinguished from most similar known relatives (other species of the P. ethagala group on the Malay Peninsula) by morphology of male palps (figs 814–815 in Huber 2011, Fig. 54 View Figs 54 – 58 ; procursus with distinctive pair of retrolateral ridges and complex distal elements), and by details of female internal genitalia (figs 817–818 in Huber 2011; large U-shaped anterior sclerite; small oval pore plates far apart).

New material examined

MALAYSIA: 5 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀, 2 juvs, ZFMK ( Ar 15703–05 ) , and 1 ♂, 1 ♀, MZUM, Johor, Gunung Ledang , forest near Puteri Falls (2.355°N, 102.635°E), 110 m a.s.l., leaf litter, 17–18 Feb. 2015 (B.A. Huber) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀, 1 juv., in absolute ethanol, ZFMK ( Mal 237, Mal 242 ), same data .

Description – amendments

Whitish area on procursus set with many small cuticular pointed processes ( Fig. 56 View Figs 54 – 58 ). Appendix with prolateral groove and dense cover of small scales ( Figs 51, 52 View Figs 48 – 53 ). Male gonopore with four epiandrous spigots ( Fig. 57 View Figs 54 – 58 ). ALS with one large widened, one pointed, and six smaller cylindrically-shaped spigots ( Fig. 53 View Figs 48 – 53 ). Tibia 1 in 5 males: 6.6–7.7 (mean 7.1); in 8 females: 5.0–6.0 (mean 5.5). Tarsus 4 comb-hairs as in Fig. 50 View Figs 48 – 53 .

Natural history

Specimens were found under tree logs and under dead leaves on the ground. They barely moved when disturbed, other than a short burst of low-amplitude vibration.

ZFMK

Germany, Bonn, Zoologische Forschungsinstitut und Museum "Alexander Koenig"

MZUM

MZUM

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Pholcidae

Genus

Pholcus

Loc

Pholcus ledang Huber, 2011

Bernard A. Huber, Joseph K. H. Koh, Amir-Ridhwan M. Ghazali, Kamil A. Braima, Olga M. Nuñeza, Charles Leh Moi Ung & Booppa Petcharad 2016
2016
Loc

Pholcus ledang

Huber 2011: 180
2011
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