Pholcus ledang Huber, 2011

Figs 36–38, 48–58

Pholcus ledang Huber, 2011: 180, 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; 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) ; 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). Appendix with prolateral groove and dense cover of small scales (Figs 51, 52). Male gonopore with four epiandrous spigots (Fig. 57). ALS with one large widened, one pointed, and six smaller cylindrically-shaped spigots (Fig. 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.

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.