Speocera huisun 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 : 33-38

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.5459963

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scientific name

Speocera huisun Li & Li
status

sp. nov.

Speocera huisun Li & Li View in CoL sp. nov. ( Figs 28 View Figure 28 , 58H View Figure 58 )

Material examined. Holotype ♀ ( IZCAS), China, Taiwan Province , Nantou County, Huisun Forest Farm (24º5.279′N, 121º2.078′E), elev. 788 m, 30.VI.2013, leg. S. Li. GoogleMaps

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

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to S. suea Li & Li sp. nov. but can be distinguished by the oval spermathecae and long afferent spermathecae (cf. Figs 28A–B View Figure 28 and Figs 41A–B View Figure 41 ).

Description. Female. Total length 1.27; carapace length 0.52; carapace width 0.42; abdomen length 0.71; abdomen width 0.53. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; shiny, light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern ( Fig. 28C View Figure 28 ); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide ( Fig. 28D View Figure 28 ). 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. 58H View Figure 58 ). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation; PME and ALE subequal, PLE largest ( Fig. 28C View Figure 28 ). Opisthosoma oval; purplish ( Fig. 28D View Figure 28 ). Legs missing. Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae long, extending past the sides of the abdomen ( Fig. 28B View Figure 28 ); spermathecae oval ( Fig. 28A View Figure 28 ).

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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