Wanniyala agrabopath, Huber & Benjamin, 2005
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930500145123 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039387D9-FFCB-FFF5-C2D8-1C4DFC7D6D06 |
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treatment provided by |
Carolina |
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scientific name |
Wanniyala agrabopath |
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sp. nov. |
Wanniyala agrabopath View in CoL new species
( Figures 5 View Figure 5 a–e, 6, 7a–d)
Type
Male holotype from Agrabopath Forest, Agrapatana (6 ° 529N, 80 ° 439E), Sri Lanka, 7 March 2000 (S. P. Benjamin), in MHNG .
Etymology
The specific name is a noun in apposition, taken from the type locality.
Diagnosis
Closely related to W. hakgala ; easily distinguished by shape of dorsal sclerite on procursus (ds in Figure 7b View Figure 7 ), by epigynum without pointed projection (cf. Figure 5d and 5i View Figure 5 ); also by shorter clypeus projections, shorter cheliceral apophyses, and apparently by colour pattern ( Figure 5a, b View Figure 5 ).
Male (holotype). Total length 1.9, carapace width 0.86. Leg 1: 15.7 (3.75+ 0.4+3.95+5.8+1.8), tibia 2: 2.25, tibia 3: 1.7, tibia 4: 2.3; tibia 1 L/d: 47. Habitus as in Figure 5a, b View Figure 5 . Carapace ochre-yellow with wide blackish median band, without lateral dark margins, clypeus only slightly darkened; sternum pale ochre yellow. Legs pale ochre-yellow, dark rings on tibiae (subdistally). Opisthosoma grey with black pattern, ventrally without pattern. Ocular area slightly elevated, thoracic furrow very distinct frontally; distance PME–PME 70 Mm; diameter PME 100 Mm; distance PME–ALE 30 Mm; AME absent. Clypeus with pair of short projections 35 Mm long and indistinct median hump. Sternum wider than long (0.65/0.50). Chelicerae as in Figure 6c, e View Figure 6 , with pair of long apophyses provided with two modified hairs on each tip ( Figure 6d View Figure 6 ), tips 0.52 apart. Palps as in Figure 6a, b View Figure 6 ; trochanter with several short projections, femur with small proximo-dorsal apophysis, procursus very complex distally, apparently with two hinged processes, with three transparent processes (t 1–3 in Figure 7a View Figure 7 ); bulb with distinctive hooked sclerite and membranous embolus ( Figure 6a View Figure 6 ). Retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia 1 at 12%; most hairs on legs missing, but apparently without spines, without curved hairs, with several rows of vertical hairs on all metatarsi (clearly present in other male seen); tarsus 1 with.20 pseudosegments, only distally quite distinct.
Variation. Tibia 1 in male from Horton Plains: 3.2. This male differs also in colour pattern and is therefore assigned tentatively: lateral margins on carapace darkened, three pairs of black spots on sternum (cf. Figure 5e View Figure 5 ), with dark pattern on abdomen also ventrally, black rings also on femora (subdistally).
Female. In general similar to male, but clypeus unmodified and metatarsi without rows of vertical hairs; the female from Horton Plains has the same colour pattern as the male from this locality (see above). Tibia 1 in female from type locality: 2.85; female from Horton Plains: 2.55. Epigynum large but rather simple externally, without conical elevation ( Figure 5 View Figure 5 c–e), apparently with pair of pockets 0.65 apart. Dorsal view as in Figure 7d View Figure 7 .
Distribution
Known from two localities in Sri Lanka ( Figure 9 View Figure 9 ).
Material examined
Sri Lanka: Agrapatana : Agrabopath Forest: type above, together with 1 „, 1♀; Horton Plains (6 ° 489N, 80 ° 489E), 2200 m above sea level (a.s.l.), forest litter, 13–15 August 1981 (P. R. and C. L. Deeleman), 1 „, 1♀ (and one epigynum!) ( RMNH) .
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