Ischnothyreus mengyang Tong & Li, 2021

Tong, Yanfeng, Sun, Xiaochen, Li, Shuqiang & Bian, Dongju, 2021, Taxonomic study of the genus Ischnothyreus (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, southwestern China, ZooKeys 1034, pp. 165-197 : 165

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1034.63388

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B9316600-4BE6-4587-9BB1-24B575FD405B

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/544C1DAA-EB94-4707-B4A5-688047F8ABD9

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Ischnothyreus mengyang Tong & Li
status

sp. nov.

Ischnothyreus mengyang Tong & Li sp. nov. Figures 7 View Figure 7 , 8 View Figure 8 , 9 View Figure 9 , 20G-I View Figure 20 , 22E, F View Figure 22 , 23E, F View Figure 23

Type material.

Holotype ♂: China, Yunnan, Jinghong City, Mengyang Town, Xishuangbanna Natural Reserve, monsoon forest; 21°24.161'N, 101°36.412'E; 791 m; 16.VI.2013; Q. Zhao and Z. Chen leg. (SYNU-387). Paratypes 5♂12♀: same data as for holotype (SYNU-388-404).

Diagnosis.

The new species is similar to I. taunggyi Tong & Li, 2020 in the male palp and the large, sclerotized process of male cheliceral fang, but can be distinguished by the broad retrolateral lobe of male palp (Fig. 8F View Figure 8 ) (vs small, ear-shaped retrolateral lobe in I. taunggyi ; Tong et al. 2020: fig. 9F) and by the long abdominal dorsal scutum of the female (5/6 of the abdomen length (Fig. 9A View Figure 9 ) vs less than 1/2 of the abdomen length in I. taunggyi ; Tong et al. 2020: fig. 10A).

Description.

Male (holotype). Body: habitus as in Fig. 7A-C View Figure 7 ; body length 1.86. Carapace: 0.95 long, 0.78 wide; pale brown, with egg-shaped patches behind eyes, surface of elevated portion of pars cephalica smooth, sides finely reticulate, lateral margin straight, smooth (Fig. 7D, E View Figure 7 ). Clypeus: height about 0.74 times ALE diameter (Fig. 7G View Figure 7 ). Eyes: see Fig. 7D, G View Figure 7 . Sternum: pale orange (Fig. 7F View Figure 7 ). Mouthparts: chelicerae, endites and labium brown; chelicerae straight, base of fangs with large, sclerotized process, fang groove with a few small denticles (Figs 7H-J View Figure 7 , 22E, F View Figure 22 ); anteromedian tip of endites with one strong, tooth-like projection (Fig. 7F View Figure 7 ). Abdomen: 0.92 long, 0.55 wide; dorsal scutum well sclerotized, pale orange, covering approximately 4/5 of the abdomen length and 3/4 of the abdomen width, not fused to epigastric scutum; epigastric and postgastric scutum well sclerotized, pale orange, fused, postgastric scutum covering about 3/4 of the abdomen length (Fig. 7A-C View Figure 7 ). Legs: pale orange, femur I with 2 prolateral spines, tibia I with 4 pairs, metatarsus I with 2 pairs of long ventral spines. Leg II spination similar to leg I except femur with only 1 prolateral spine. Legs III and IV spineless. Palp: trochanter with ventral projection, cymbium brown; bulb with 2 ventral protuberances, one large and another very small, distal end of bulb elongated, with one narrow leaf-shaped prolateral projection and a distal hook-shaped membrane, retrolateral lobe broad (Figs 8 View Figure 8 , 20G-I View Figure 20 ).

Female (paratype, SYNU-393). Same as male except as noted. Body: habitus as in Fig. 9A-C View Figure 9 ; body length 1.96. Carapace: 0.94 long, 0.82 wide. Mouthparts: chelicerae and endites unmodified. Abdomen: 1.05 long, 0.73 wide; dorsal scutum covering 5/6 of the abdomen length, about 2/3 of the abdomen width. Epigastric area: postgastric scutum with central anchor-shaped structure (Fig. 9H View Figure 9 ). Endogyne: from the middle of the slightly thickened margin of the postgastric scutum runs a dark, complex winding tube, ending in a very small nipple-shaped atrium (Fig. 23E, F View Figure 23 ).

Etymology.

The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Ischnothyreus