Khorata ningyuan, Wei, Xiao & Xu, Xiang, 2014
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.2.5 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DCAE3299-D449-4A37-8FAF-F271141DE256 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6124217 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/607C87AE-FFD6-8C00-86E3-54553E94F9A0 |
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Plazi |
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Khorata ningyuan |
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sp. nov. |
Khorata ningyuan View in CoL sp. nov.
Figs 1–3 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 , 7 View FIGURE 7
Type material. Holotype: Male, Red snake cave [25°26.805′N, 112°06.577′E], Jiuanbei Village, Jiangjin Town, Ningyuan County, Hunan Province, China, 13 August 2010, leg. X. Wei, S. Zhu, H. Xu and Y. Chen. Paratypes: 1 male and 3 females, same data as holotype.
Etymology. The specific name derived from the name of the type locality.
Diagnosis. This species resembles K. dongkou Yao & Li, 2010 and K. miaoshanensis Yao & Li, 2010 in having similar male chelicerae ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 C) and a similar epigynum ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 A and 3D), but can be distinguished by different distal elements of procursus, longer than those of sancai n. sp., ( Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 A–B, D, 3A–B) and nearly rectangular lateral pore plates of the vulva ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 A–B, 3D–E).
Description. Male (holotype): Total length 2.03 (2.26 with clypeus), prosoma length 0.73, width 0.85; opisthosoma length 1.30, width 0.82. Leg I: 18.59 (4.69 + 0.44 + 4.72 + 6.48 + 2.26), leg II: 13.18 (3.78 + 0.42 + 3.14 + 4.49 + 1.35), leg III: 9.93 (2.95 + 0.38 + 2.31 + 3.33 + 0.96), leg IV: 12.71 (3.72 + 0.41 + 3.08 + 4.47 + 1.03); tibia I L/d: 46. Habitus as in Fig 1 View FIGURE 1 C. Dorsal shield of prosoma yellowish, with black margins and a median black stripe behind ocular area; sternum black. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma grey, without large black spots. Distance PME–PME 0.08, diameter PME 0.12, distance PME–ALE 0.015, AME absent. Ocular area slightly elevated and separated from Prosoma. Thoracic furrow shallow but distinct. Sternum slightly wider than long. Chelicerae as in Fig 3 View FIGURE 3 C, with a pair of hook-shaped frontal apophyses (tips widely separated from each other), two pairs of thumb-shaped proximolateral apophyses (tips widely separated from each other) and a pair of small thumbshaped distal apophyses on anterolateral surface. Pedipalpi as in Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 A–B and 3A–B; trochanter with a retrolateral apophysis and a small ventral apophysis; femur with a retrolateral apophysis; patella large; procursus simple proximally but complex distally, and its distal part longer than the bulb, distinctly longitudinally depressed and with a sharp anterior an d distal projections; bulb simple, no other projections except for embolus. Tarsus I with more than 30 pseudosegments, of which the distal 15 pseudosegments are distinct.
Variation. Tibia I length in other males (n=2): 3.80–4.83 (mean: 4.40).
Female. Similar to male, habitus as in Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 C–D. Leg I lost in all female specimens. Epigynum brown ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 A and 3D), without distinct pockets. Vulva ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 B and 3E) with two nearly rectangular lateral pore plates.
Distribution. The species is known only from the type locality ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 ).
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