Murricia caishen, Lin & Li, 2022

Lin, Yejie & Li, Shuqiang, 2022, Taxonomic notes on seven species of the family Hersiliidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China and the Philippines, Zoological Systematics 47 (2), pp. 132-145 : 144-145

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.2022204

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CAC2F9CD-8E07-414D-90C4-2ED93492B466

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7172152

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A857879F-A940-FFA3-56F3-BF80FEEDFE04

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Murricia caishen
status

sp. nov.

Murricia caishen View in CoL sp. nov. ( Figs 1F View Figure 1 , 8–9 View Figure 8 View Figure 9 )

Type material. Holotype ♀ (IZCAS-Ar42723), China, Hainan, Wuzhishan City, Wuzhishan Nature Reserve , 18.9070°N, 109.6792°E, elev. ca 744 m, 8.VIII.2007, Shuqiang Li leg. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. The female of the new species resembles all Murricia species by the central part of the copulatory duct expanded, the primary spermathecae slender, with complex folding ( Figs 8A–B View Figure 8 ), and the secondary spermathecae with multiple branches with spherical end.

Description. Female holotype ( Figs 1F View Figure 1 , 8 View Figure 8 ). Total length 5.76. Carapace 2.41 long, 3.12 wide. Clypeus height 0.27, brown anteriorly. Chelicerae yellow-brown, terminus dark brown, with five retromarginal denticles. Eye area dark brown around PME and PLE; eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.19, ALE 0.04, PME 0.11, PLE 0.10, AME–AME 0.06, AME–ALE 0.13, PME–PME 0.13, PME–PLE 0.12, AME–PME 0.05, ALE–PLE 0.09. Legs yellow-brown, with black stripe. Leg measurements: leg I: 13.28 (3.76 + 3.82 + 3.06 +2.03 + 0.61), leg II: 14.42 (4.04 + 4.36 + 3.33 + 2.14 + 0.55), leg III: 5.00 (1.57 + 1.62 + 1.14 + 0.67), leg IV: 12.47 (3.59 + 3.43 + 3.07 + 1.79 + 0.59). Leg formula: 2143. Abdomen 3.12 long, 4.29 wide, yellow-brown, middle with a black horizontal stripe; laterally black.

Epigyne ( Fig. 8 View Figure 8 ). Epigynal field triangular. Median septum absent. Copulatory openings located posteriorly, conspicuous, separated. Copulatory ducts long and slender. Two pairs of spermathecae; primary spermathecae slender, complexly coiled, secondary spermathecae short; spermathecal ducts short. Fertilization ducts paddle-shaped.

Etymology. The species is named after Caishen, the god of prosperity and profit in Chinese culture; noun.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.

Funding The study was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (31972869).

Acknowledgements The English was checked by Sarah Crews. Guo Tang, Guo Zheng, Qingyuan Zhao, Zhigang Chen, Jianglang Wu, Francesco Ballarin and Yunchun Li helped in field collections. Wenhui Zhu helped checking paratypes of Hersilia yunnanensis .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Hersiliidae

Genus

Murricia

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