Asceua longji Barrion-Dupo, Barrion & Heong, 2013

Lin, Yejie, Wu, Lingbing, Cai, Ducheng, Li, Shuqiang, Barrion, Alberto Tomas & Heong, Kong-Luen, 2023, Review of 43 spider species from Hainan Island, China (Arachnida, Araneae), Zootaxa 5351 (5), pp. 501-533 : 527

Asceua longji Barrion-Dupo, Barrion & Heong, 2013

Figs 17A, B , 18A–C

Asceua longji Barrion-Dupo, Barrion & Heong , in Barrion et al., 44, fig. 51A–E (♀).

Type material of Asceua longji (examined). Holotype ♀ (coll. no. La1), CHINA: Hainan Island, Chengmai, Laocheng , Longji Hills , 24.IV.2012, leg. A. T. Barrion et al .; Paratype: 1 ♀ (coll. no. So99), Panja Town, Shuiku Village, Songtao Reservoir , 2.IV.2011, leg. A. T. Barrion et al .

Description and diagnosis. See Barrion et al. (2013) for the description of the female; the male remains unknown. The holotype female habitus and epigynal morphology are presented in Figs 18 and 17 , respectively. The female of A. longji is similar to A. quadrimaculata Zhang, Zhang & Jia, 2012 by the presence of a central epigynal hood. However, it can be distinguished from A. quadrimaculata by the white pattern terminally on the opisthosoma (vs. absent in A. quadrimaculata, Zhang et al. 2012 : fig. 1), the copulatory openings clearly separated from the epigynal hood (vs. copulatory openings and epigynal hood close together in A. quadrimaculata, Zhang et al. 2012 : fig. 5), and the spermathecae oval in shape (vs. spermathecae spherical in A. quadrimaculata, Zhang et al. 2012 : fig. 5).

Distribution. China (Hainan).

Figures

FIGURE 17. Asceua longji, holotype female: A Epigyne, ventral view; B Vulva, dorsal view.

FIGURE 18. Asceua longji, holotype female: A Habitus, dorsal view; B Same, ventral view; C Original labels.