Coelotes pseudoterrestris

WANG, XIN-PING, 2002, A Generic-Level Revision Of The Spider Subfamily Coelotinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2002 (269), pp. 1-150 : 49-51

The pseudoterrestris Group

DIAGNOSIS. Females of this group have a distinct anterior atrial margin, broad copulatory ducts, and long, convoluted spermathecae (figs. 127, 128); males generally have a relatively less broad patellar apophysis, a well­developed lateral tibial apophysis, a long conductor, and a slender conductor dorsal apophysis (129–131).

This species group is well represented in southern China.

There are at least two species in the pseudoterrestris group.

1. Coelotes pseudoterrestris Schenkel, 1963 : female holotype from Yunnan, China, in MNHN and NHMB, examined.

The species Coelotes sacratus Wang et al., 1990 , with male and female paratypes from Xishan, Kunming, Yunnan, China, in HBI, examined, is placed as a junior synonym of C. pserdoterrestris Schenkel (because of the identical female genitalic morphology). NEW SYNONYMY.

2. Coelotes yunnanensis Schenkel, 1963 : female holotype from Yunnan, China, in MNHN, examined.

Lehtinen (1967) synonymized C. yunna­ nensis with Paracoelotes spinivulvus (Simon, 1880) . Examination of type specimen shows that this species is not a synonymy of Paracoelotes spinivulvus .

Coelotes pseudoterrestris Schenkel

Figures 127–136

Coelotes pseudoterrestris Schenkel, 1963: 286 , fig. 161 (female holotype from Lo Thoei Tong, China, in MNHN, examined).

Figures

Figs. 127, 128. Coelotes pseudoterrestris Schenkel, female. 127. Epigynum. 128. Vulva.

Figs. 129, 130. Coelotes pseudoterrestris Schenkel, male palp. 129. Ventral view. 130. Retrolateral view.

Figs. 131–133. Coelotes pseudoterrestris Schenkel. 131. Male palp, retrolateral view. 132. Carapace, front view. 133. Chelicerae, ventral view.

Figs. 134–136. Coelotes pseudoterrestris Schenkel, female spinnerets, ventral view. 134. ALS, left. 135. PMS, left. 136. PLS, right. Abbreviations are spelled out on p. 6.