Relictocera Li & Li, 2017

Chang, Wan-Jin, Li, Fengyuan & Li, Shuqiang, 2019, On the genera Qiongocera and Relictocera (Araneae, Psilodercidae) from Southeast Asia, ZooKeys 862, pp. 61-79 : 63

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.862.33078

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scientific name

Relictocera Li & Li, 2017
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Genus Relictocera Li & Li, 2017 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species.

Relictocera qiyi Li & Li, 2017 from Vietnam, Thua Thien Hue Province. Details and figures of type species as shown in Figs 2B, 3C and Liu et al. (2017): figs 7, 8.

Emended diagnosis.

Relictocera can be distinguished from Luzonacera by the following combination of characters: 1) bulb with numerous appendages (vs. bulb without appendages); 2) male with clypeal projection (vs. male without clypeal projection); 3) chelicera without promarginal teeth (vs. chelicera with 1 promarginal tooth); and 4) cheliceral promargin lamina with 3 triangular extensions (vs. lamina with 2 triangular extensions).

Composition.

Relictocera qiyi (the type species), R. sigen Li & Li, sp. nov., R. wugen Li & Li, sp. nov., R. qianzi Li & Li, sp. nov., and R. mus (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995).

Distribution.

Vietnam and Thailand.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Psilodercidae