Erigomicronus longembolus ( Wunderlich & Li, 1995 )

Tanasevitch, Andrei V. & Marusik, Yuri M., 2024, On a small collection of linyphiid spiders from mountain Phoenix, Liaoning Province, China, with the description of a new species (Linyphiidae), Zootaxa 5541 (1), pp. 61-72 : 65

Erigomicronus longembolus ( Wunderlich & Li, 1995)

Fig. 9B

? Oreonetides longembolus Wunderlich & Li, 1995: 338 , figs 18–22 (♂).

Oreonetides longembolus : Song et al. 1999: 199, figs 114A–B (♂ ♀).

“ Oreonetides ” longembolus : Marusik et al. 2016: 5, figs 10–23 (♂ ♀).

Erigomicronus longembolus : Tanasevitch 2018: 246, figs 1–4, 6–9 (♂ ♀).

For the complete list of references see WSC (2024).

Material examined. 11♂ 3♀ ( ZMMU), CHINA: Liaoning Prov., env. of Fengcheng City, Mt. Phoenix , ca 40°23’N, 124°05’E, 280–550 m a.s.l., 16–18.X.2017, Y.M. Marusik leg.

Remarks. Oreonetides longembolus Wunderlich & Li, 1995 was originally described from the male holotype collected in the Liaoning Province of northeastern China ( Wunderlich & Li 1995). Marusik et al. (2016) discovered and described the female of this species and correctly noted that the long and whip-shaped embolus in the male palp is typical of neither Oreonetides Strand, 1901 nor the subfamily Micronetinae sensu Saaristo & Tanasevitch (1996) as a whole. The structure of the epigyne does resemble the “micronetine” pattern (see Saaristo & Tanasevitch 1996) and is even similar to that of some species of Maro O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1906 . Two years later, Tanasevitch (2018) established a new genus, Erigomicronus Tanasevitch, 2018 , with O. longembolus as the type species, and included Erigomicronus longembolus ( Wunderlich & Li 1995) , and Maro lautus Saito, 1984 .

Distribution. Known from the Liaoning Province of northeastern China ( Wunderlich & Li 1995, and new data), and from the southern part of the Maritime Province, Russia ( Marusik et al. 2016; Tanasevitch 2018) ( Fig. 9B ).

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FIGURE 9. Collecting locality: Mt. Phoenix (A) and distribution records (B) of Doenitzius pruvus (dot) and Erigomicronus longembolus (diamond).