Grandilithus fengshan Liu & Li, 2022

Mu, Yannan & Zhang, Feng, 2023, Further additions to the guardstone spider fauna from China (Araneae: Phrurolithidae), Zootaxa 5338 (1), pp. 1-104 : 22

Grandilithus fengshan Liu & Li, 2022 (ƟƜ±Dzff)

Figs 14–15

Grandilithus fengshan Liu & Li, 2022: 354 , Suppl. 2: 31, fig. 45A–F, 46A–F, 70B.

Material examined. 1 ♁ 7 ♀, CHINA: Jiangxi Province: Ganzhou City, Shashi Town, Fengshan National Forest Park (25°44′33.73″N –25°45′13.03″N, 115°00′36.08″E –115°00′56.88″E, 780–900 m a.s.l.), 21 Jul. 2022, leg. Yannan Mu.

Diagnosis. See Liu et al. (2022).

Description. Female: total length 4.27, carapace 1.80 long, 1.53 wide; abdomen 2.47 long, 1.69 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.12, ALE 0.10, PME 0.08, PLE 0.10; AME–AME 0.06, AME–ALE 0.02, ALE–ALE 0.33, PME–PME 0.13, PME–PLE 0.06, PLE–PLE 0.43, ALE–PLE 0.10. EAW 0.57, CRW 0.76, EAW/CRW 0.75, CRW/CW 0.50. MOA 0.32 long, anterior width 0.28, posterior width 0.30. CH 0.13, CH /AME 1.08. Labium 0.17 long, 0.25 wide. Sternum 1.02 long, 0.86 wide. Leg measurements: Ⅰ 8.68 (2.14, 0.63, 2.56, 1.95, 1.40), II 6.80 (1.81, 0.52, 1.87, 1.42, 1.18), III 5.85 (1.53, 0.54, 1.28, 1.56, 0.94), IV 8.93 (2.38, 0.63, 2.09, 2.53, 1.30). Spination: femora II–IV d 1, femur Ⅰ pl 6, femur II pl 4, tibia Ⅰ pv 10 rv 10, tibia II pv 9 rv 9, metatarsus Ⅰ pv 5 rv 4, metatarsus II pv 4 rv 3. Legs yellow. Carapace brown, with several shapes resembling flowing water droplets beside fovea. Abdomen black, without pattern ( Fig. 14C, D ).

Epigyne as in Fig. 15D–E . Epigynal plate sclerotized, posterior edge nearly straight. Median septum narrow. Copulatory openings small, close to each other, located at centre of plate. Copulatory ducts thick, curved and connected with bursa. Glandular appendages mastoid-shaped. Connecting tubes thinner than copulatory ducts, connected with spermathecae. Bursa large, transparent. Spermathecae globular, located at posterior of plate. Fertilization ducts located at anterior margin of spermathecae.

Distribution. China (Jiangxi Province).

Figures

FIGURE 14. Habitus of Grandilithus fengshan Liu & S. Q. Li, 2022: A. Male, dorsal view; B. Same, ventral view; C. Female, dorsal view; D. Same, ventral view.

FIGURE 15. Copulatory organs of Grandilithus fengshan Liu & S. Q. Li, 2022: A. Male left palp, prolateral view; B. Same, ventral view; C. Same, retrolateral view; D. Epigyne, ventral view; E. Same, dorsal view.