Platocoelotes Wang, 2002

Chen, Lu, Li, Shuqiang & Zhao, Zhe, 2015, Five new Platocoelotes species (Araneae, Agelenidae) from caves in southern China, ZooKeys 512, pp. 1-18 : 3

Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Agelenidae

Genus Platocoelotes Wang, 2002

Platocoelotes : Wang 2002: 122. Type species Coelotes impletus Peng & Wang, 1997, from Hunan, China.

Diagnosis.

Male palp with two conductor apophyses (anterior conductor apophysis and posterior conductor apophysis) (Fig. 1B); only one conductor apophysis in other similar genera. There are two patellar apophyses (one or both of them are highly reduced in size in some species) in Platocoelotes species; other coelotines usually have only one. The female can be distinguished from other coelotines by the large epigynal atrium, the absence of epigynal teeth, simple spermathecae and indistinct copulatory ducts (Fig. 2 A–B).