Gushangzao goemon Lin & Li, 2024

Lin, Yejie, Li, Shuqiang, Mo, Haolin & Wang, Xihao, 2024, Thirty-eight spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam, Zoological Systematics 49 (1), pp. 4-98 : 74-75

Gushangzao goemon Lin & Li , sp. nov.

Dipoena pelorosa Zhu, 1998 : Tanikawa, 2017: 8, figs 3A–F (♂ ♀), misidentified (see diagnosis).

Etymology. The species is named after Ishikawa Goemon, a legendary Japanese outlaw hero who stole gold and other valuables to give to the poor; noun in apposition.

Diagnosis. The new species can be distinguished by the sperm duct with a U-shaped loop prolaterally (vs. 2 U-shaped loops in G. pelorosus comb. nov. and an n-shaped loop in G. shiqian Lin & Li , sp. nov.), and the conductor is about 1/3 the length of the bulb (vs. 1/ 6 in G. pelorosus and 1/ 4 in G. shiqian Lin & Li , sp. nov.); the female can be distinguished by the curved copulatory ducts (vs. straight copulatory ducts, parallel to each other in G. pelorosus and strongly curved, S-shaped in G. shiqian Lin & Li , sp. nov.).

Description. See Tanikawa (2017: 8), as Dipoena pelorosus .

Types. Holotype ♂ (NSMT-Ar14747), Japan, Okinawa, Iriomotejima Island, near mouth of Kura River, 31.XII.2000. Paratypes. 2♀ (1♀: NSMT-Ar14746), Japan, Okinawa, Iriomotejima Island , Sonai, 27.III.1989; 1♂ 1♀, Japan, Okinawa, Iriomotejima Island , Komi, 14.XI.2004, A. Tanikawa leg. (Not examined) .

Distribution. Japan (Iriomotejima Island).