Phintella sancha Cao & Li, 2016

Figs 26–27, 58

Phintella sancha Cao & Li in Cao et al., 2016: 91, figs 34a–d, 35a–b (♂, male holotype, not examined). For full reference list see World Spider Catalog (2023).

Diagnosis

The male was thoroughly diagnosed by Cao & Li (2016). The female of Phintella sancha Cao & Li, 2016 resembles that of P. suavisoides Lei & Peng, 2013, but differs in: (1) the copulatory ducts touching each other medially (Fig. 27A–D), whereas being separated in P. suavisoides (Cao & Li 2016: fig. 37a–b); (2) the inter-distance between epigynal hoods being less than the spermathecal diameter (Fig. 27A–D), whereas about two times the spermathecal diameter in P. suavisoides (Cao & Li 2016: fig. 32a–b).

Material examined

CHINA • 3 ♀♀, 3 ♂♂; Yunnan, Yingjiang County, Yingjiang National Wetland Park; 24°41.40′ N, 97°56.20′ E; 810 m a.s.l.; 16 Feb. 2019; W.H. Wang leg.; TRU-JS 0415–0420 .

Description

Male

See Cao & Li (2016).

Female (TRU-JS 0415)

MEASUREMENTS. Total length 3.28. Carapace 1.48 long, 1.14 wide. Abdomen 1.93 long, 1.05 wide. Eye sizes and inter-distances: AME 0.37, ALE 0.17, PLE 0.16, AERW 1.03, PERW 1.03, EFL 0.73. Legs: I 2.57 (0.78, 0.45, 0.58, 0.43, 0.33), II 2.18 (0.70, 0.38, 0.50, 0.30, 0.30), III 2.71 (0.85, 0.35, 0.58, 0.63, 0.30), IV 3.24 (1.01, 0.43, 0.75, 0.75, 0.30).

HABITUS. Carapace yellow, covered with pale scale-like setae, with a pair of indistinct dark patches behind AMEs (Fig. 27G). Chelicerae with two promarginal teeth and one retromarginal tooth less developed than that in males. Endites lack distal apophysis. Legs pale to yellow. Abdomen elongated, dorsum pale yellow, with dark brown spots laterally, covered with sparse dark brown setae; venter pale (Fig. 27G).

EPIGYNE. With a pair of posterolateral hoods; copulatory openings located anteriorly, with C-shaped margins; copulatory ducts thick, curved proximally, and touching medially, connected to the anterior portion of spherical spermathecae separated from each other by less than one-sixth their diameter; fertilization ducts lamellar, strongly curved at proximal portions, and then extended almost transversely (Fig. 27A–D).

Distribution

China (Yunnan) (Fig. 58).