Laoponia saetosa, Platnick & Jäger, 2008

Platnick, Norman I. & Jäger, Peter, 2008, On the First Asian Spiders of the Family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae), with Notes on the African Genus Diploglena, American Museum Novitates 2008 (3634), pp. 1-12 : 4-7

Laoponia saetosa , new species

Figures 1–25

TYPE: Male holotype taken sieving leaf litter at slope of stream at dusk, at an elevation of 328 m, at Houay Kho , 19 ° 44 9 09.1 0 N, 102 ° 16 9 37.5 0 E, Ban Pak Bak, Nam Khan, SE Luang Prabang, Luang Prabang Prov., Laos (Mar. 23, 2007; P. Jäger), deposited in SMF .

ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is from the Latin adjective saetosus (‘‘with hairs or bris- tles’’) and refers to the stiff bristles on the cheliceral paturon.

DIAGNOSIS: With the characters of the genus and palpi as in figs. 3–5.

MALE (HOLOTYPE): Total length 2.83 mm. Carapace 1.29 mm long, 1.05 mm wide, uniformly pale orange; mouthparts yellow; sternum pale orange; abdomen uniformly white, with scattered long setae. Palpal tibia and cymbium with promarginal surfaces heavily setose; bulb circular, embolus very narrrow, abruptly bent distally at about half its length (figs. 3–5).

FEMALE: Unknown.

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: LAOS: Luang Prabang Prov.: Houay Tham , 19 ° 44 9 51.2 0 N, 102 ° 13 9 15.4 0 E, between Ban Khon Why and Xieng Ngeun, Nam Khan, SE Luang Prabang, Mar. 24, 2007, elev. 363 m, sieving leaf litter at rocks along stream (P. Jäger, SMF) , 23, same (AMNH), 13.

DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Laos; a juvenile that probably belongs to this species was taken sieving leaf litter outside a cave, at an elevation of 373 m, at Tham Pathok, 20 ° 33 9 08.2 0 N, 102 ° 37 9 92.5 0 E, Nong Khiao , Nam Ou, NE Luang Prabang, Luang Prabang Prov., Laos, Mar. 17–18, 2007 (P. Jäger, F. Steinmetz, SMF) .

Figures

Figs. 1–5. Laoponia saetosa, new species, male. 1. Cephalothorax and abdomen, dorsal view. 2. Same, ventral view. 3. Left male palp, ventral view. 4. Same, prolateral view. 5. Same, retrolateral view.

Figs. 6–11. Laoponia saetosa, new species, male. 6. Left chelicera, distal view. 7. Right chelicera, retrolateral view. 8. Labrum, anterior view. 9. Left palpal endite, dorsal view. 10. Stridulatory pick on left palpal femur, prolateral view. 11. Modified setae on base of palpal endite, dorsal view.