Relictocera Li & Li, 2017

Liu, Chang, Li, Fengyuan, Li, Shuqiang & Zheng, Guo, 2017, Five new genera of the subfamily Psilodercinae (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from Southeast Asia, Zoological Systematics 42 (4), pp. 395-417 : 403

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.201717

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:286CFD9F-1456-4772-B3D5-8A13FF24A9F1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4617645

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BB6787BC-173B-E616-FF08-379BC736F9DB

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scientific name

Relictocera Li & Li
status

gen. nov.

3.3 Genus Relictocera Li & Li View in CoL View at ENA , gen. nov.

Type species: Relictocera qiyi Li & Li View in CoL , sp. nov.

Etymology. The genus name is an arbitrary combination of letters. Gender is feminine.

Diagnosis. The new genus is distinguished from all other genera of the family by the trifurcate projection on the male clypeus and the distinctly slender apical protrusion on the male cymbium.

Description. Cheliceral promargin with dentoid lamina, retromargin with one denticle; male with short cymbium with single distinctly slender protrusion distally, clypeus with trifurcate projection medially ( Figs 8 View Figure 8 C–D), bulb oval with conductor present; female with external pair of translucent lobes laterally on genitalic area ( Fig. 8B View Figure 8 ), vulva with single pair of slender elongate spermathecae ( Fig. 8A View Figure 8 ).

Distribution. Vietnam (Thua Thien Hue Province).

Species composition. Relictocera qiyi Li & Li , sp. nov.

Gallery Image

Figure 8. Relictocera qiyi Li & Li, sp. nov., male holotype and female paratype. A. Spermathecae, dorsal view. B. Female epigyne, ventral view. C. Male habitus, retrolateral view. D. Male habitus, dorsal view. E. Female habitus, dorsal view. F. Female habitus, ventral view. Scale bars: A=0.05mm; C–F =0.5mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Psilodercidae