Notiocoelotes sparus ( Dankittipakul, Chami-Kranon & Wang 2005 ) Dankittipakul, Chami-Kranon & Wang, 2005

Wang, Xin-Ping, Xu, Xiang & Li, Shuqiang, 2008, Notiocoelotes, a new genus of the spider subfamily Coelotinae from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Amaurobiidae), Zootaxa 1853, pp. 1-17 : 11-12

Notiocoelotes sparus ( Dankittipakul, Chami-Kranon & Wang 2005) comb. nov.

Fig. 44

Asiacoelotes sparus Dankittipakul et al. 2005: 3 , figs 1–3 (holotype male from Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Pak Chong District, Khao Yai National Park, Khao Khieo, central Thailand, deposited in MHNG, examined).

Diagnosis: Males can be easily distinguished from N. palinitropus ( Zhu & Wang, 1994) and N. vietnamensis sp. nov. by the less coiled conductor ( Dankittipakul et al 2005: figures 1–3).

Description: Males: Described by Dankittipakul et al. (2005). Small sized coelotine, total length 3.45. AME smallest, half size of other eyes; ALE, PLE, PME subequal; PME and PLE distinctly separated by two times of their size, other eyes equal separated by slightly more than AME diameter. Chelicerae with 3 promarginal and 3 retromarginal teeth. Legs long (1st leg/dorsal shield of prosoma = 4.35). Palpus without patellar apophysis; RTA small, about half of tibial length; lateral tibial apophysis strongly bifurcated, situated close to RTA; cymbial furrow slightly more than half of cymbial length; conductor long, extending proximally, with slender apex, only slightly coiled comparing to other Notiocoelotes species; conductor dorsal apophysis absent; conductor lamella moderately large; median apophysis reduced; embolus filiform, originating proximally.

Habitats: The spiders were collected by sifting leaf litter and humus in a lower montane rain forest just above the semi-evergreen forest below ( Dankittipakul et al. 2005).

Distribution: Thailand (Nakhon Ratchasima) ( Fig. 44 ).

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FIGURE 44. Records of species of Notiocoelotes gen. nov.