The crab spiders of the Genus Tmarus from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Thomisidae)
Author
Tang, Guo
Author
Li, Shu-Qiang
text
Zootaxa
2009
2223
48
68
journal article
40581
10.5281/zenodo.190156
86df4c5d-c499-4b0f-8b28-cb1c50c64e85
1175-5326
190156
Tmarus hastatus
sp. nov.
Figs 4A–D
,
5A
–
B
Type
material:
Holotype
:
male,
CHINA
,
Yunnan
:
Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Menglun Town, Rubber-Tea Plantation (
N21º55.551'
,
E101º16.923'
, alt.
561 m
),
19–26 April 2007
, G. Zheng leg.
Etymology.
The specific name comes from the Latin adjective
hastatus
and means hastate (halberdshaped), refers to the shape of the palpal RTA, adjective.
Diagnosis.
This new species can be separated from other
Tmarus
by the unique hastate shape of the RTA.
Description. Male
(
holotype
): Total length 3.50. Prosoma length 1.50, width 1.30; opisthosoma length 2.10, width 0.85. Prosoma brown with short setae, carapace with a triangle grayish white marking. Tubercle grayish black. Clypeus with 6 long setae. Chelicerae yellow, gnathocoxae, labium and sternum light yellow. Eye measurements: AME 0.06; ALE 0.11; PME 0.07; PLE 0.11; AME–AME 0.10; AME–ALE 0.12; PME– PME 0.16; PME–PLE 0.26. MOA length 0.29 with front width 0.20 and back width 0.30, Legs yellow. Leg formula: 1243; leg measurements: I: 7.00 (2.10, 2.50, 1.50, 0.90); II: 6.40 (2.00, 2.30, 1.30, 0.90); III: 3.10 (0.90, 1.20, 0.50, 0.50); IV: 3.50 (1.30, 1.20, 0.50, 0.50). Opisthosoma dorsum grayish brown with grayish white markings, venter grayish black.
Palp
(
Figs 4B–D
,
5A
–
B
). Palp VTA short, with sharp apex; RTA halberd-shaped, with wide base, bifid apex, curved and sharp dorsal branch, tegulum swollen, embolus peg like, with wide base, sharp apex.
Female:
Unknown.
Distribution.
China
(Yunnan).