Jingneta wukuishan Tong, 2024

Li, Shuhui, Chen, Qiang & Tong, Yanfeng, 2024, Four new species of leptonetid spiders (Araneae, Leptonetidae) from Anhui Province, China, ZooKeys 1218, pp. 99-119 : 99-119

Jingneta wukuishan Tong sp. nov.

Figs 5 , 6 , 13 C , 14

Type material.

Holotype China • ♂ ( SYNU -1170 ); Anhui, Huangshan City, She County, Wukui Mountain ; 29°51'0"N, 118°24'55"E, 138 m; 3.I.2022; W. Cheng, H. Fu & K. Yang leg. Paratype: China • 1 ♂ ( SYNU -1171 ), same data as holotype .

Etymology.

The specific name refers to the type locality and is a noun in apposition.

Diagnosis.

This new species is similar to Jingneta maculosa ( Song and Xu 1986: fig. 2 A-C) in the dark stripes of abdomen, but can be distinguished by the chelicerae with seven promarginal teeth (Fig. 13 C ) vs. ten promarginal teeth, palpal femur with six long setae retrolaterally and tibia lacking specialized setae (Fig. 5 D ) vs. nine setae and tibia with three short blunt spines.

Description.

Male (holotype). Habitus as in Fig. 5 A, B . Total length 1.52. Carapace 0.61 long, 0.54 wide. Abdomen 0.93 long, 0.62 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: ALE 0.06, PLE 0.06, PME 0.05; ALE – PME 0.06, PLE – PLE 0.04, PLE – PME 0.02; AER 0.11, PER 0.12. Carapace yellow to dark brown. Median groove, cervical grooves and radial furrows indistinct. Chelicerae with seven large promarginal and seven small retromarginal teeth. Labium rectangular; endites with serrula anterolaterally; sternum yellow to brown, longer than wide, heart shaped, smooth. Abdomen light brown, darker on sides, ovoid. Leg measurements: I 2.96 (0.83, 0.21, 0.78, 0.65, 0.49); II - (-, -, -, -, -); III 2.73 (0.75, 0.21, 0.67, 0.61, 0.49); IV 3.93 (1.08, 0.21, 1.20, 0.88, 0.56). Palp (Figs 5 C, D , 6 A – E ): femur with six long setae retrolaterally; cymbium constricted medially, attached to a small earlobe-shaped process retrolaterally; tip of bulb with a strong spine-like prolateral sclerite and several membranous outgrowths.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution.

China (Anhui).

Figures

Figure 5. Jingneta wukuishan sp. nov., male A, B habitus, dorsal and ventral views C, D left palp, prolateral and retrolateral views. Scale bars: 0.4 mm (A, B); 0.3 mm (C, D).

Figure 6. Jingneta wukuishan sp. nov. A, B, C left palp, prolateral, dorsal and retrolateral views D, E distal part of bulb, prolateral and retrolateral views. Abbreviation: ps = prolateral sclerite. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (A, C); 0.05 mm (B, D, E).

Figure 13. Male left chelicerae, posterior view A Jingneta qishan sp. nov. B Leptonetela jingde sp. nov. C Jingneta wukuishan sp. nov. D Rhyssoleptoneta lishan sp. nov. Arrows show the stridulatory file in B, D. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.

Figure 14. Distribution records of leptonetid spiders from Anhui, China, red circles refer to four new species, green circles indicate four known species 1 Jingneta maculosa 2 Jingneta qishan sp. nov. 3 Jingneta tunxiensis 4 Jingneta wukuishan sp. nov. 5 Leptonetela jingde sp. nov. 6 Leptonetela microdonta 7 Longileptoneta shenxian 8 Rhyssoleptoneta lishan sp. nov.