Qiongocera Li & Li, 2017

Chang, Wan-Jin, Li, Fengyuan & Li, Shuqiang, 2019, On the genera Qiongocera and Relictocera (Araneae, Psilodercidae) from Southeast Asia, ZooKeys 862, pp. 61-79 : 62-63

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.862.33078

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Qiongocera Li & Li, 2017
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Genus Qiongocera Li & Li, 2017 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species.

Qiongocera hongjunensis Li & Li, 2017 from China, Hainan Province. Details and figures of the type species as in Fig. 1A, D, and Liu et al. (2017): figs 5, 6.

Emended diagnosis.

Qiongocera resembles Flexicrurum but can be differentiated by the following combination of characters: 1) cymbium with a tilted protrusion (vs. cymbium with a strong lateral protrusion and with a small postero-lateral protrusion bearing a strong seta; 2) laminar apophysis half the width and length of bulb (vs. bulbal apophysis length equals and width, 15 times shorter than that of bulb in Flexicrurum ); 3) simple process on the distal end of bulb (vs. a complex processes with more than one extension in Flexicrurum ); and 4) a short embolus (vs. a long embolus in Flexicrurum ).

Composition.

Qiongocera hongjunensis (the type species) and Qiongocera luoxuan Li & Li, sp. nov.

Distribution.

Hainan Province, China.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Psilodercidae