Speocera tabuk Li & Li, 2019

Tong, Yanfeng, Li, Fengyuan, Song, Yang, Chen, Haifeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2019, Thirty-two new species of the genus Speocera Berland, 1914 (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from China, Madagascar and Southeast Asia, Zoological Systematics 44 (1), pp. 1-75 : 52

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.201901

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:044F94BB-26D6-486A-95B6-F137F5C9AACB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5459979

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Speocera tabuk Li & Li
status

sp. nov.

Speocera tabuk Li & Li View in CoL sp. nov. ( Figs 42 View Figure 42 , 58J View Figure 58 )

Material examined. Holotype ♀ ( IZCAS), Philippines, Luzon Island, Kalinga Province, Tabuk City , road to Tabuk , forest along the road near a narrow water channel (17º24.757′N, 121º16.384′E), elev. 408 m, 2.VI.2015, leg. F. Ballarin & Y. Li. GoogleMaps

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the type locality; noun.

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to S. cuyapo Li & Li sp. nov. but can be distinguished by the longer afferent spermathecae (cf. Figs 42B View Figure 42 , 20B View Figure 20 ).

Description. Female. Total length 1.00; carapace length 0.48; carapace width 0.41; abdomen length 0.51; abdomen width 0.36. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; shiny, light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern ( Fig. 42C View Figure 42 ); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide ( Fig. 42D View Figure 42 ). Endites light yellow with serrula; labium light yellow. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles ( Fig. 58J View Figure 58 ). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation, nearly subequal ( Fig. 42C View Figure 42 ). Opisthosoma oval; purplish. Legs light yellow; leg lengths I 1.76 (0.50, 0.15, 0.51, 0.34, 0.25); II 1.63 (0.46, 0.16, 0.45, 0.32, 0.25); III 1.43 (0.41, 0.14, 0.36, 0.30, 0.22); IV missing. Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae short, straight, not extending past the sides of the abdomen ( Fig. 42B View Figure 42 ); spermathecae amorphous ( Fig. 42A View Figure 42 ).

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.

IZCAS

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Ochyroceratidae

Genus

Speocera

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