Serendib suthepica Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001

Zhang, Lu & Zhang, Feng, 2023, Note on the genus Serendib Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001, with the description of a new species (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae), Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 99980-99980 : 99980

Serendib suthepica Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Kun Yu; individualCount: 3; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: A4BFC04E-8B8F-5140-962E-E66E4586DDC2; Taxon : scientificName: Serendib suthepica Deeleman-Reinhold , 2001; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan Province; county: Jinghong ; locality: Wild Elephant Valley ; verbatimElevation: 800m; verbatimLatitude: 22°10′24.12″N; verbatimLongitude: 100°51′33.75″E; Event : year: 2021; month: 8; day: 4; Record Level : institutionID: the Museum of Hebei University ; institutionCode: MHBU Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Lu Zhang; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 5395DD71-5DB3-51C6-ACEA-D2193C1D1651; Taxon : scientificName: Serendib suthepica Deeleman-Reinhold , 2001; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan Province; county: Jinghong ; locality: Wild Elephant Valley ; verbatimElevation: 814m; verbatimLatitude: 22°10′25.05″N; verbatimLongitude: 100°51′19.07″E; Event : year: 2022; month: 6; day: 5; Record Level : institutionID: the Museum of Hebei University ; institutionCode: MHBU

Description

Female (Fig. 5 ; Fig. 6 a-b). Total length 5.43; carapace 2.78 long, 1.52 wide; abdomen 2.65 long, 1.82 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.10, ALE 0.09, PME 0.09, PLE 0.08; AME-AME 0.30, AME-ALE 0.15, ALE-ALE 0.60, PME-PME 0.42, PME-PLE 0.37, PLE-PLE 1.04, ALE-PLE 0.38. MOA 0.26 long, anterior width 0.42, posterior width 0.51. Clypeal height 0.23. Labium 0.17 long, 0.33 wide. Sternum 1.10 long, 0.86 wide. Measurements of legs: I 4.97 (1.51, 0.47, 1.16, 1.04, 0.79), II 4.82 (1.51, 0.42, 1.20, 1.02, 0.67), III 3.78 (1.50, 0.45, 1.19, 1.05, 0.59), IV 6.82 (2.20, 0.57, 1.70, 1.52, 0.83).

Carapace black, elongated, covered plumose hair (Fig. 6 a). Legs slender, with spines; coxae II-III white, others black; Legs I-II brown, femora black, distally with white stripes; Legs III-IV black, femur III with one white stripe distally, femur IV with one thin yellowish stripe distally (Fig. 6 a-b); femora I-II with five bristles ventrally, femur III with two, femur IV with one (Fig. 3 b). Abdomen black, oval, covered golden hairs; with transverse strips anteriorly and medially; with short and grooved collar (Fig. 6 a; Fig. 1 b). Dorsal scutum large, anterior with two pairs of strong spines (Fig. 6 a).

Epigyne as in Fig. 6 c-d. Copulatory openings distinct, with straight sclerotized margins. Copulatory ducts transverse, coiled, gradually extended into large, black anterior spermathecae. Posterior spermathecae diverging, with ovate distal parts and connecting with fertilization ducts.

Diagnosis

See the diagnosis of S. hispida sp. n. .

Distribution

Thailand, Indonesia (Bali), China (Yunnan) (Fig. 9 ).

Figures

Figure 5. Living habitus of Serendib suthepica Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: a - b female, incomplete egg capsule and eggs (black arrows) (photographs by Kun Yu).

Figure 6. Serendib suthepica Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: a female habitus, dorsal view; b same, ventral view; c epigyne, ventral view; d vulva, dorsal view. Abbreviations: CO-copulatory opening; CD-copulatory duct; FD-fertilization duct; S-spermatheca. Scale bars: 1 mm (a-b); 0.2 mm (c-d).

Figure 9. Distribution map of the genus Serendib.