Habrocestoides furcatus Xie, Peng & Kim, 1993

Peng Xian-jin & Xie Li-ping, 1995, Spiders of the genus Habrocestoides from China (Araneae: Salticidae), Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10, pp. 57-64 : 57

Habrocestoides furcatus Xie, Peng & Kim, 1993 (Figs. 12-16)

Habrocestoides furcatus Xie et al., 1993: 24 , figs. 5 9 (♂).

Material: Male holotype, Zhangjiajie Forest Park, Dayong , Hunan, August 1981, leg. Wang Jia-fu .

Figs. 12- 16: Habrocestoides furcatus Xie et al., 1993 . 12 Body; 13 Palpal organ, prolateral; 14 Ditto, ventral; 15 Ditto,

Diagnosis: This species is allied to H. sinensis , but differs from the latter by: (l) embolus much shorter

and thinner, slightly bifurcated in retrolateral view (Fig. 15 cf. Fig. 20); (2) tibial apophysis fork-shaped in retrolateral view (Fig. 15); (3) bulb stouter (Fig. 13 cf. Fig. 18).

Male holotype: TL 3.35, CL 1.8, CW 1.5, AEW 1.4, PEW 1.3, EFL 0.7, AL 1.6, AW 1.2. Carapace reddish brown, eye field dark brown, with brown setae; eyes I straight, diameter of AME about twice that of ALE, ALE slightly larger than PLE, PME at midpoint between ALE and PLE. Chelicerae orange (also endites, labium and sternum), 2 promarginal teeth and 1 retromarginal. Legs yellowish brown, short and strong, black-brown annuli distally on femur, patella and tibia. Abdomen oval, pattern as in Fig. 12, ventrally yellowish brown. Palpal organ (Figs. 13-16): embolus very short, spine-shaped in prolateral view (Fig. 13), slightly bifurcated in retrolateral view (Fig. 15); tibial apophysis hook-shaped in ventral view (Fig. 14), fork-shaped in retrolateral view (Fig. 15).

Female: Unknown.

Distribution: China (Hunan).