Solenysa trunciformis, Wang, Fang, Ono, Hirotsugu & Tu, Lihong, 2015

Wang, Fang, Ono, Hirotsugu & Tu, Lihong, 2015, A review of Solenysa spiders from Japan (Araneae, Linyphiidae), with a comment on the type species S. mellotteei Simon, 1894, ZooKeys 481, pp. 39-56 : 49-50

Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Linyphiidae

Solenysa trunciformis sp. n. Figs 1 A–D, 3B, 5 E–F

Solenysa melloteei : Tu and Li 2006: 91, figs 21-30; Tu and Hormiga 2011: 499, fig. 8 A–I (misidentification).

Types.

Male holotype (CNU-J26), Japan, Honshu, Wakayama Prefecture, Shirahama, Tondazaka, 33°37.53'N, 135°25.35'E, alt. 310 m, 31 Mar. 2009, coll. Akihisa Andoh. Paratypes, 2♂♂ and 9♀♀, same data as holotype; 1♂ and 1♀ (CNU-J23), Japan, Shikoku, Kagawa Prefecture, Takamatsu, Nishi-ueda, 34°13.22'N, 134°04.62'E, alt. 130 m, 19 Jul. 2008, coll. Akihisa Andoh; 1♂ and 3♀♀ (CNU-J05), Japan, Honshu, Wakayama Prefecture, Susami-cho, Esuzaki, 33°30'N, 135°34.20'E, 24 Aug. 1981, coll. Yoshito Ishii.

Diagnosis.

The male palpal characters of Solenysa trunciformis sp. n. (Figs 1C, 3B, 6F) are similar to those of Solenysa macrodonta sp. n. and Solenysa refrexilis ; to distinguish them see the diagnosis for Solenysa macrodonta sp. n. The female is distinguished by the apple-shaped epigyne with a rectangular epigynal collar (Fig. 5F).

Description.

Somatic characters as in the genus description and genital characters as in the descriptions for Solenysa mellotteei by Tu and Li (2006) and Tu and Hormiga (2011).

Etymology.

The species name comes from the Latin ‘trunciformis’ in reference to truncate apex of anterior protrusion in front of median terminal apophysis (Fig. 1C).

Distribution.

Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Fig. 7).