Conothele jinggangshan, Liu, Hao, Xu, Xin, Zhang, Zengtao, Liu, Fengxing & Li, Daiqin, 2019

Liu, Hao, Xu, Xin, Zhang, Zengtao, Liu, Fengxing & Li, Daiqin, 2019, Four new species of the trapdoor spider genus Conothele Thorell, 1878 (Araneae, Halonoproctidae) from China, ZooKeys 833, pp. 133-150 : 133

Conothele jinggangshan sp. n. Fig. 4

Holotype.

Female (LH-2017-225), collected in Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery, Ciping Town, Jinggangshan City, Jian City, Jiangxi Province, China, 26.5881N, 114.1599E, 910 m a.s.l., 12 September 2017, collected by FX Liu, F Li (CBEE).

Diagnosis.

Female of C. jinggangshan sp. n. can be distinguished from those of the other Conothele species by the sternum with a pair of obvious elliptic sigilla (Fig. 4C); by the distal part of stalks which are outwardly and then inwardly bend, somewhat semi-circle-like (Fig. 4G).

Description.

TL 13.74; chelicerae length 1.77, carapace 6.62 long, 5.40 wide; opisthosoma 6.89 long, 5.70 wide. Carapace dark brown, glabrous, with a few slender setae on or behind the eye tubercle (Fig. 4A). Caput arched. Fovea deep and dark (Fig. 4A). Eye tubercle black. Eight eyes in two rows, with the anterior eye row procurved, and the posterior eye row slightly recurved (Fig. 4E); eye group 0.73 long, 1.38 wide; ALE-AME 0.20, AME-AME 0.14, PLE-PME 0.02, PME-PME 0.46; MOA 0.51 long, front width 0.48, back width 0.86; ALE: AME: PLE: PME (0.34: 0.17: 0.30: 0.19). Four slender setae on clypeus (Fig. 4E). Chelicerae dark brown (dorsal view); inner margin with five teeth, outer margin with seven teeth. Labium, coxae of palp and sternum brown (Fig. 4C). Labium 0.82 long, 1.00 wide, with four conspicuous cuspules. Coxae of palp 2.03 long, 1.31 wide, with approx. 41 conspicuous cuspules (the right one, ventral view) (Fig. 4C). Sternum 3.09 long, 2.74 wide, with a pair of obvious elliptic sigilla and with small number of setae (Fig. 4C).

Legs brown, light brown ventrally, with long and short brown sparse setae. Basal part of tibia III with saddle-like depression dorsally (Fig. 4F). Palp with a single tarsal claw and with two denticles on the claw. Legs each with three tarsal claws, paired claws with one denticle. Leg formula: IV, I, II, III. Measurements of palp and legs: palp 9.07 (3.40+1.42+2.27+1.98), leg I 9.89 (3.65+1.93+2.41+1.04+0.86), leg II 9.40 (3.21+1.66+2.13+1.23+1.17), leg III 9.35 (3.20+1.29+2.01+1.36+1.49), leg IV12.09 (4.14+1.74+2.50+2.16+1.55).

Opisthosoma ellipsoid, black, scattered with slender short black setae. Spinnerets brown (Fig. 4D), PMS short and one-segmented, 0.64 long, PMS-PMS 0.19; PLS divided into three sections, 1.38 long. Genitalia with a pair of spermathecae, each stalk slender, long, distally sclerotized and folded, which is first bent outwards and then inwards, semi-circle-like; with bowl-shaped lobes (Fig. 4G).

Male.

Unknown.

Etymology.

The species epithet, a noun in apposition, refers to the type locality.

Distribution.

Jiangxi Province (Jinggangshan City).