Lysiteles himalayensis Ono, 1979

Tang, Guo, Yin, Chang-Ming, Peng, Xian-Jin, Ubick, Darrell & Griswold, Charles, 2008, The crab spiders of the genus Lysiteles from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae: Thomisidae), Zootaxa 1742, pp. 1-41 : 20-21

Lysiteles himalayensis Ono, 1979

Figs 10 a–e , 23

Lysiteles himalayensis Ono, 1979: 102 , figs 29–31; Ono, 2001: 225, figs 52–55 (types not examined)

Material examined. CHINA: Yunnan Province: Fugong County: 1 Ψ, Pihe Township, Yueliangtian Village [N26.56784º, E98.90884º], 1520 m, 20–24 August 2005, Guo Tang (HNU-Tang 050801).

Diagnosis. The female is very similar to that of L. coronatus (Grube, 1861) in the epigyne, but can be separated from the latter by: the sclerotized plate arc-shaped (saddle-shaped in L. coronatus ).

Description. Female (HNU-Tang 050801): Total length 2.80. Prosoma 1.20 long, 1.10 wide; opisthosoma 1.70 long, 1.30 wide. Dorsal shield of prosoma blackish brown, with long setae, medially yellow with black lines. Both AER and PER strongly recurved. Eye tubercles pale gray. ALE>PLE>AME>PME. Chelicerae brown with black medial stripes, labium, gnathocoxae brown. Legs I, II yellow brown with blackish brown annuli, tibiae and metatarsi I, II both with 2 pairs of ventral spines. Leg measurements: I: 4.40 (1.40, 1.50, 1.00, 0.50), II: 4.50 (1.50, 1.50, 1.00, 0.50), III: 3.00 (1.00, 0.90, 0.60, 0.50), IV: 3.10 (1.00, 1.10, 0.60, 0.40), formula: 2, 1, 4, 3. Opisthosoma ovoid, dorsum light gray with black spots; anteriorly with a pair of black spots and some black dots; posteriorly with 2 pairs of black spots; laterally with black markings; venter light gray with a large rectangular black marking medially.

Epigyne-vulva ( Figs 10 b–e ). Sclerotized plate much wider than long, medially slightly concave; copulatory openings lateral; copulatory ducts curved in “n”-shape; spermathecae globular.

Male: See Ono (1979), unknown from China at present.

Distribution. Nepal, Bhutan; China (new to China, recorded from Fugong County of Yunnan Province).

Figures

FIGURE 23. Distribution records of the species: L. himalayensis Ono, 1979, L. kunmingensis Song & Zhao, 1994, L. maius Ono, 1979, L. niger Ono, 1979, L. punctiger Ono, 2001, L. saltus Ono, 1979, L. torsivus Zhang, Zhu & Tso, 2006. Not all of distribution data are given for those species with many distribution records because these would overlap on the map. Furthermore, only approximate distribution marks are given for the species published by others scholars (e. g., L. himalayensis distribution record from Bhutan and Nepal, etc.) because the original paper did not include latitude and longitude.

FIGURES 10 a – e. Lysiteles himalayensis Ono, 1979. a Female, habitus; b, d Epigyne; c, e Vulva, TSP transversal sclerotized plate. Scale bars: a = 1; b – e = 0.1.