Phrynarachne brevis Tang & S. Li, 2010

Lin, Yejie, Yu, Long, Koomen, Peter, Yan, Xunyou & Li, Shuqiang, 2022, Taxonomic notes on the genus Phrynarachne from China (Araneae, Thomisidae), ZooKeys 1085, pp. 69-99 : 69

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Figs 1A View Figure 1 , 6 View Figure 6 , 18A View Figure 18 , 21 View Figure 21

Phrynarachne brevis Tang & Li, 2010: 49, figs 35A-D, 36A, B (♂).

Type material.

Holotype: ♂ (IZCASAr18535), China: Yunnan: Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Menglun Town, Menglun Nature Reserve, Bamboo plantation near G213 roadside, 21.8940°N, 101.2823°E, 580 m elev., 3.XII.2009, Guo Tang and Zhiyuan Yao leg., examined.

Other material examined.

1♀ (IZCAS-Ar41642), China: Yunnan: Xishuangbanna, Jinghong City , Mengla County, Menglun Town , Menglun Nature Reserve , Bamboo plantation, 21.9008°N, 101.2822°E, 597 m elev., 9.V.2019, Zhigang Chen leg. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis.

See diagnosis of P. dreepy sp. nov.

Description.

Female (Figs 1A View Figure 1 , 6 View Figure 6 , 18A View Figure 18 ). Total length 16.53, carapace 6.62 long, 7.09 wide, yellow brown with brown pattern and granulations dorsally. With large projection between ALE and PLE. Eye sizes and interdistances: ALE 0.26, AME 0.23, PLE 0.25, PME 0.22; ALE-AME 0.51, AME-AME 0.90, PLE-PME 1.62, PME-PME 1.02. Chelicerae brown, with two promarginal and one retromarginal teeth; gnathocoxae, labium dark yellow, labium 1.52 long, 1.18 wide. Sternum yellow. Legs brown, femora I and II with dense, varying-sized tubercles; tibiae and metatarsi I, II with dense asymmetrical ventral spines (I, tibia 12, metatarsus 30; II, tibia 10, metatarsus 30). Leg measurements: I 17.25 (5.74, 6.31, 3.10, 2.10), II 17.61 (5.66, 6.61, 3.30, 2.04), III 12.30 (3.67, 5.74, 1.50, 1.39), IV 10.26 (3.31, 4.12, 1.46, 1.37). Opisthosoma dorsally light yellow, each side with 22 long tubercles, middle with pair of black markings.

Epigyne (Fig. 6 View Figure 6 ) with M-shaped sclerotized margins; median plate obvious, with a posterior hood, anterior edge recurved and posterior edge almost straight, the ratio of length to width is 11:3; copulatory opening obvious; spermathecae kidney-shaped, the ratio of anterior edge to posterior edge length is 1:1. Fertilization duct transverse.

Male. See Tang and Li (2010).

Distribution.

China (Yunnan).

Notes.

The female is described here for the first time.