Otacilia Thorell, 1897
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4107.2.4 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5618544 |
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Otacilia Thorell, 1897 |
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Diagnosis. Otacilia can be recognized by the following combination of characters: carapace oval, abruptly narrow anteriorly; labium and gnathocoxae wider than long; chelicerae each with two bristles (rarely with one bristle) on anterior side; leg formula: 4123; spination (see Table 1 View TABLE 1 for new species in this paper): femora I–IV d 1, I pl 0–4, II pl 0–3; tibiae I–II and metatarsi I–II each with several pairs of long ventral spines (few with one more rv than pv); male abdomen with a dorsal scutum on antero-dorsal part, female abdomen without scutum.
Male palpal femur with ventral apophysis; tibia usually with single strong RTA, seldom with BTA or DTA; embolus originating antero-prolaterally, with membranous or weakly sclerotized tegular apophysis (or conductor); epigyne with or without median plate, vulva usually with pair of transparent bursae anteriorly and pair of strongly sclerotized spermathecae.
Species groups of Chinese Otacilia . After reviewing 30 Chinese Otacilia species (including the nine new species described in this paper) and the type species, but not including O. paracymbium Jäger & Wunderlich, 2012 , whose female is unknown, we confirm that Wang et al. ’s (2015) assignment of species to the two groups is accurate. Here we add a third species group for the genus Otacilia and outline and formally name the three species groups, also list the male and female diagnostic characters for each species group, followed by a list of all of the included Chinese species ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ).
TABLE 1. Number of spines on legs of all new species of Otacilia described in the present paper.
| Species name | Femur I | Femur II | Tibia I | Tibia II | Metatarsus I | Metatarsus II |
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| O. mira sp. nov. | pl 4 | pl 3 | pv 7, rv 8 | pv 7, rv 7 | pv 4, rv 3 | pv 4, rv 3 |
| O. pyriformis sp. nov. | pl 3 | pl 2 | pv 7, rv 8 | pv 7, rv 6 | pv 4, rv 4 | pv 4, rv 3 |
| O. papilion sp. nov. | pl 4 | pl 2 | pv 6, rv 7 | pv 7, rv 6 | pv 4, rv 4 | pv 4, rv 3 |
| O. aurita sp. nov. | pl 3 | pl 1 | pv 6, rv 6 | pv 6, rv 5 | pv 4, rv 4 | pv 4, rv 3 |
| O. aculeata sp. nov. | pl 3 | pl 0 | pv 6, rv 6 | pv 6, rv 5 | pv 4, rv 3 | pv 4, rv 3 |
| O. leibo sp. nov. | pl 3 | pl 1 | pv 6, rv 7 | pv 6, rv 6 | pv 4, rv 4 | pv 4, rv 3 |
| O. ovata sp. nov. | pl 3 | pl 0 | pv 6, rv 7 | pv 7, rv 6 | pv 4, rv 4 | pv 4, rv 3 |
| O. acuta sp. nov. | pl 4 | pl 1 | pv 6, rv 6 | pv 6, rv 5 | pv 4, rv 4 | pv 4, rv 3 |
| O. flexa sp. nov. | pl 3 | pl 0 | pv 6, rv 6 | pv 6, rv 4 | pv 4, rv 3 | pv 4, rv 3 |
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