Otacilia Thorell, 1897

Fu, Lina, Zhang, Zhisheng & Zhang, Feng, 2016, New Otacilia species from Southwest China (Araneae: Phrurolithidae), Zootaxa 4107 (2), pp. 197-221 : 198

Otacilia Thorell, 1897

Diagnosis. Otacilia can be recognized by the following combination of characters: carapace oval, abruptly narrow anteriorly; labium and gnathocoxae wider than long; chelicerae each with two bristles (rarely with one bristle) on anterior side; leg formula: 4123; spination (see Table 1 for new species in this paper): femora I–IV d 1, I pl 0–4, II pl 0–3; tibiae I–II and metatarsi I–II each with several pairs of long ventral spines (few with one more rv than pv); male abdomen with a dorsal scutum on antero-dorsal part, female abdomen without scutum.

Male palpal femur with ventral apophysis; tibia usually with single strong RTA, seldom with BTA or DTA; embolus originating antero-prolaterally, with membranous or weakly sclerotized tegular apophysis (or conductor); epigyne with or without median plate, vulva usually with pair of transparent bursae anteriorly and pair of strongly sclerotized spermathecae.

Species groups of Chinese Otacilia . After reviewing 30 Chinese Otacilia species (including the nine new species described in this paper) and the type species, but not including O. paracymbium Jäger & Wunderlich, 2012 , whose female is unknown, we confirm that Wang et al. ’s (2015) assignment of species to the two groups is accurate. Here we add a third species group for the genus Otacilia and outline and formally name the three species groups, also list the male and female diagnostic characters for each species group, followed by a list of all of the included Chinese species ( Table 2 ).

Tables

TABLE 1. Number of spines on legs of all new species of Otacilia described in the present paper.

Species name	Femur I	Femur II	Tibia I	Tibia II	Metatarsus I	Metatarsus II
O. mira sp. nov.	pl 4	pl 3	pv 7, rv 8	pv 7, rv 7	pv 4, rv 3	pv 4, rv 3
O. pyriformis sp. nov.	pl 3	pl 2	pv 7, rv 8	pv 7, rv 6	pv 4, rv 4	pv 4, rv 3
O. papilion sp. nov.	pl 4	pl 2	pv 6, rv 7	pv 7, rv 6	pv 4, rv 4	pv 4, rv 3
O. aurita sp. nov.	pl 3	pl 1	pv 6, rv 6	pv 6, rv 5	pv 4, rv 4	pv 4, rv 3
O. aculeata sp. nov.	pl 3	pl 0	pv 6, rv 6	pv 6, rv 5	pv 4, rv 3	pv 4, rv 3
O. leibo sp. nov.	pl 3	pl 1	pv 6, rv 7	pv 6, rv 6	pv 4, rv 4	pv 4, rv 3
O. ovata sp. nov.	pl 3	pl 0	pv 6, rv 7	pv 7, rv 6	pv 4, rv 4	pv 4, rv 3
O. acuta sp. nov.	pl 4	pl 1	pv 6, rv 6	pv 6, rv 5	pv 4, rv 4	pv 4, rv 3
O. flexa sp. nov.	pl 3	pl 0	pv 6, rv 6	pv 6, rv 4	pv 4, rv 3	pv 4, rv 3