Paraborboropactus canalis, Tang & Li, 2010

Tang, Guo & Li, Shuqiang, 2010, Crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae) 2703, Zootaxa 2703, pp. 1-105 : 44-46

Paraborboropactus canalis sp. nov.

Figs 31–32

Type material. Holotype: ♀, CHINA: Yunnan: Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Menglun Town , Menglun Nature Reserve , Lvshilin Forest Park (N21º54.705', E101º16.898', 664 m), 15 November 2009, G. Tang and Z.Y. Yao (Tang-Yao_No.8).

Etymology. The specific epithet is taken from the Latin word canalis (furrow or groove), referring to the epigynum with a pair of long grooved copulatory openings, noun in apposition.

Diagnosis. This new species can be easily distinguished from P. rhombus (see Tang & Li 2009c: 712–721) and P. oblatus (see Tang & Li 2010: 53–54) by the wide anteriorly situated hood and the shape of septum.

Description. Female (holotype measured): Total length 8.20. Prosoma 3.40 long, 3.30 wide; Opisthosoma 5.30 long, 4.90 wide. Dorsal shield of prosoma brown with black brown longitudinal stripes. AER procurved, tubercles of ALE with clustered hairs. Eye measurements: AME 0.10; ALE 0.24; PME 0.14; PLE 0.21; AME– AME 0.15; AME–ALE 0.24; PME–PME 0.46; PME–PLE 0.42. MOA length 0.73 with front width 0.48 and back width 0.74. Chelicera, gnathocoxa, labium and sternum blackish brown. Chelicerae with 3 pro- and 3 retromarginal teeth. Femur I, II with thick spines and clustered hairs; tibiae I, II with white brush-shaped clustered hairs. Tibiae and metatarsi of I, II with 4, 3 pairs of ventral spines, respectively. Leg measurements: I: 12.40 (4.00, 5.30, 2.30, 0.80); II: 13.60 (4.30, 5.50, 2.50, 1.30); III: 7.00 (2.30, 2.70, 1.20, 0.80); IV: 8.00 (2.60, 3.00, 1.50, 0.90), leg formula: 2143. Opisthosoma dorsally yellowish brown with small brown clustered hairs; venter light brown.

Epigynum ( Figs 31 C–D, 32 A–B). Epigynum with a wide, anteriorly situated hood and a pair of posteriorly situated epigynal teeth; copulatory openings long groove like; copulatory ducts short, wide; spermathecae wrinkled.

Male: Unknown.

Distribution. China (Yunnan).