Pholcus wuling, Tong & Li, 2010

Tong, Yanfeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2010, Eight new spider species of the genus Pholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae) from China, Zootaxa 2355, pp. 35-55 : 51-55

Pholcus wuling sp. nov.

Figs 1S–U, 14A–F

Type material: Holotype male, CHINA: Hebei Province, Xinglong County, Wuling Mountain (40°35.462´N, 117°21.359´E), 1 August 2005, Z. Li leg. Paratypes: 5 females, same data as for holotype .

Etymology: The species name is a noun in apposition derived from the type locality.

Diagnosis: The new species is similar to Pholcus exilis sp. nov., but can be distinguished by the short bulbal appendix, the shapes of procursus, uncus and palpal trochanter, and by the short cylindrical outgrowth of female epigynum.

Description: Male (holotype). Total length 5.28 (5.68 with clypeus), carapace width 1.92. Leg 1 lost, leg 2 lost except femur: 14.71, leg 3: 32.69 (9.42, 0.71, 8.14, 12.85, 1.57), leg 4: 40.26 (11.42, 0.71, 10.71, 17.42, -). Carapace yellowish, with brown radiated stripes and brown marginal band; ocular area yellowish, with brown band at median and laterally; clypeus yellowish, with brownish marks; sternum brown. Opisthosoma gray, with some spots dorsally and laterally. Distance PME–PME 0.27; diameter PME 0.16; distance PME– ALE 0.05; diameter AME 0.09. Chelicerae as in figs 14C, D, with pair of black apophyses distally, pair of unsclerotized apophyses proximolaterally, and pair of slender up-directed prominences frontally. Palps as in figs 14A, B; uncus basally with a narrow process (arrow in fig. 14A); trochanter short, strongly bulged retrolaterally. Legs yellow, but dark brown on basal part of tibiae, with indistinct darker rings on femora (subdistally) and tibiae (subdistally), without spines, curved and vertical hairs.

Females: In general similar to males, Habitus as in figs 1S, T, but legs yellowish, with more distinct darker rings than in male. Tibia 1: 8.99 (only one specimen with leg 1). Epigynum as in figs 1U and 14E, brown with distinctive pattern; with a very short worm-shaped knob (arrow in fig. 14E). Dorsal view as in fig. 14F.

Distribution: Only known from type locality at present.