Thiania flacata, Li & Liu & Peng, 2024

Li, Song-Lin, Liu, Ping & Peng, Xian-Jin, 2024, Three new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Hunan, China, ZooKeys 1204, pp. 301-312 : 301-312

Thiania flacata sp. nov.

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Type material.

Holotype ♀ ( HNU-BMS- 1905 ), China, Hunan Prov., Chenzhou City, Guidong Co., Bamian Mountain National Nature Reserve , 25.975210 ° N, 113.702865 ° E, 1081 m, 18 Sept. 2019, Cheng Wang, Bo Lü and Xuan-Wei Zhou leg.

Etymology.

The specific epithet is derived from the Latin “ falcata ” (falx-shaped), referring to the falx-shaped copulatory ducts, adjective.

Diagnosis.

This new species can be distinguished from any other congeneric species by the vaulted copulatory openings.

Description.

Female (holotype) (Fig. 3 A, B ). Total length 6.04; carapace 2.58 long, 2.24 wide; abdomen 3.37 long, 1.52 wide. Clypeus 0.12 high. Carapace yellow brown, with brown eye file and margins. Fovea longitudinal, radial and cervical grooves distinct. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.51, ALE 0.27, PME 0.06, PLE 0.14, AER 1.62, PER 1.50, EFL 1.07. Chelicerae yellow brown, promargin with two teeth, retromargin with one tooth. Endites and labium yellow brown, distal end pale yellow with dark setae. Sternum yellow brown. Leg pale yellow to brown. Measurements of legs: I 6.33 (1.65, 2.65, 1.35, 0.68), II 4.58 (1.33, 1.83, 0.77, 0.65), III 4.61 (1.38, 1.67, 1.08, 0.48), IV 4.61 (1.40, 1.79, 0.99, 0.43). Leg formula: 1342. Abdomen dorsum brown, median portion with one pair of dark patches, posterior portion with three transverse light herringbone patterns, edges with white setae; venter light yellow, with a wide light brown longitudinal band in the center.

Epigyne (Fig. 3 C, D ). Epigynal window located medially on epigyne. Copulatory openings vaulted, located at the upper margin of the epigynal window. Copulatory ducts falx-shaped, original portion thicker. Spermathecae oval, slightly wider than the copulatory ducts.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality (Fig. 6 ).

Figures

Figure 3. Thiania flacata sp. nov. A female paratype, habitus, dorsal view B ditto, ventral view C epigyne, ventral view D vulva, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm (A, B); 0.2 mm (C, D).

Figure 6. Collection localities of Thiania bamian sp. nov., Thiania flacata sp. nov. and Yaginumaella curvata sp. nov.