Asianopis celebensis (Merian, 1911) Lin & Shao & Hänggi & Caleb & Koh & Jäger & Li, 2020

Lin, Yejie, Shao, Lili, Haenggi, Ambros, Caleb, John T. D., Koh, Joseph K. H., Jaeger, Peter & Li, Shuqiang, 2020, Asianopis gen. nov., a new genus of the spider family Deinopidae from Asia, ZooKeys 911, pp. 67-99 : 67

Asianopis celebensis (Merian, 1911) comb. nov. Fig. 9A-F

Dinopis celebensis Merian, 1911: 167, figs A, B (♂only, ♀ mismatched).

Type material examined.

♂ (NMB), NMB-ARAN-00514b, "Zentral-Celebes, nördlich vom Golf von Bone", South Sulawesi, north of the Gulf of Boni (precise locality not known).

Diagnosis.

The male can be distinguished from other congeners by having the distal lobe of the MA distinctly smaller than the basal lobe; in other Asianopis spp., the distal lobe is slightly smaller than the basal lobe (Fig. 9A, C ).

Description.

See Merian (1911). Photos of holotype male habitus and palps are shown in Fig. 9A-F .

Distribution.

Indonesia (Sulawesi).

Comments.

One male and two females were types for Asianopis celebensis (Merian, 1911) comb. nov. after Merian (1911). Based on the current study, one type female from North Sulawesi is Asianopis dumogae (Merian, 1911) sp. reval. comb. nov., and the other type female from South Sulawesi is a member of the zhuanghaoyuni -group, but its status at the species level is uncertain because of the missing epigyne.

Figures

Figure 9. Asianopis celebensis comb. nov., male type. A Male right palp, prolateral view B Embolic tip C male left palp (embolic tip detached), retrolateral view D Male prosoma, lateral view E Male opisthosoma, dorsal view F Male prosoma, frontal view.