Speocera cuyapo 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 : 26

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5459949

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Speocera cuyapo Li & Li
status

sp. nov.

Speocera cuyapo Li & Li View in CoL sp. nov. ( Figs 20 View Figure 20 , 58D View Figure 58 )

Material examined. Holotype ♀ ( IZCAS), Philippines, Luzon Island , Nueva Ecija Province, Cuyapo City, Forest , on a steep slope, in the litter. (15º47.809′N, 120º39.329′E), elev. 60m, 22.V.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. apo Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995 but can be distinguished by the posteriorly curved tip of the afferent spermathecae ( Fig. 20B View Figure 20 ). The tip of the afferent spermathecae is curved anteriorly in S. apo (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995: figs 223–224).

Description. Female. Total length 1.19; carapace length 0.49; carapace width 0.41; abdomen length 0.66; abdomen width 0.49. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; yellow, strongly suffused with purplish pattern ( Fig. 20C View Figure 20 ); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide ( Fig. 20D View Figure 20 ). Endites light yellow, suffused with purplish tinge; with serrula; labium light yellow, suffused with purplish tinge. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles ( Fig. 58D View Figure 58 ). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation, PME smallest, PLE largest ( Fig. 20C View Figure 20 ). Opisthosoma oval; purplish ( Fig. 20D View Figure 20 ). Legs light yellow; leg lengths I, II, IV missing; III 1.35 (0.40, 0.13, 0.30, 0.29, 0.23). Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae short, not extending past the sides of the abdomen; tip of the afferent spermathecae curved posteriorly from epigastric furrow ( Fig. 20B View Figure 20 ); spermathecae small, round ( Fig. 20A View Figure 20 ).

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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