Latouchia Pocock, 1901

Tso, I-Min, Haupt, Joachim & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2003, The Trapdoor Spider Family Ctenizidae (Arachnida: Araneae) From Taiwan, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (1), pp. 25-33 : 29-30

Latouchia Pocock, 1901

Latouchia Pocock, 1901: 210 ; Raven, 1985: 140-143. ˇ

Figs. 6-24. Ummidia taiwanensis , new species. 6-14, male: 6. anterolateral side of first leg; 7. carapace, dorsal view; 8. left chelicera, ventral view; 9. teeth of both cheliceral margins, ventral view; 10. labium, coxa of left palp (maxilla) and sternum, ventral view; 11. spinnerets, ventral view; 12. left palp, ventral view; 13. do., prolateral view; 14. do., retrolateral view. 15-24, female: 15. carapace, dorsal view; 16. eyes and clypeus; 17. left chelicera, outer view; 18. teeth of both cheliceral margins, ventral view; 19. labium, coxa of left palp (maxilla) and sternum, ventral view; 20. right trochanters of palp and leg I, ventral view; 21. left leg III, prolateral view; 22. metatarsus III, dorsal view; 23. spinnerets, ventral view; 24. genitalia, dorsal view. (Scale bars: Figs. 6-7, 10-11, 15, 17-21, 23 = 1mm; Figs. 8-9, 12-14, 16, 22, 24 = 0.5mm).

spines absent. Scopulae present in male on tarsi I and II.

Remarks. – About 12 species have been reported world wide ( Yaginuma, 1986; Murphy, 2000). Only one species Latouchia formosensis Kayashima, 1943 , had been described from Taiwan. In this paper a new subspecies, L. formosensis smithi is described.