Speocera manhao Li & Li, 2019

Tong, Yanfeng, Li, Fengyuan, Song, Yang, Chen, Haifeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2019, Thirty-two new species of the genus Speocera Berland, 1914 (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from China, Madagascar and Southeast Asia, Zoological Systematics 44 (1), pp. 1-75 : 43

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.201901

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5459969

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scientific name

Speocera manhao Li & Li
status

sp. nov.

Speocera manhao Li & Li View in CoL sp. nov. ( Figs 33– 34 View Figure 33 View Figure 34 , 56E, F View Figure 56 )

Material examined. Holotype ♂ ( IZCAS), China, Yunnan Province, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture , Gejiu City , Manhao Town, Lvshuihe Tropical Forest Reserve (23º1.535′N, 103º24.063′E), elev. 477 m, 19.V.2015, leg. Z. Chen & Y. Li. Paratypes 2♂ 3♀ ( IZCAS), same data as holotype GoogleMaps .

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the type locality; noun.

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to S. bicornea Tong & Li, 2007 , but males can be distinguished by the irregular spherical palpal bulb ( Figs 33A–B View Figure 33 ) and females by the long afferent spermathecae ( Figs 34B, D View Figure 34 ). S. bicornea has a spherical palpal bulb and short afferent spermathecae that do not extend to the upper sides of the abdomen (Tong & Li, 2007: fig. 7).

Description. Male. Total length 1.08; carapace length 0.50; carapace width 0.43; abdomen length 0.54; abdomen width 0.38. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern ( Fig. 34C View Figure 34 ); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, longer than wide. Endites light yellow suffused with purplish tinge; with serrula; labium light yellow suffused with purplish tinge. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow, lateral margin strongly excavated, with a very small horn-like apophysis; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles ( Figs 56E–F View Figure 56 ). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation; PME smallest, PLE largest ( Fig. 34C View Figure 34 ). Opisthosoma oval; purplish. Legs light yellow; leg formula 4123; leg lengths I 1.95 (0.55, 0.16, 0.61, 0.36, 0.27); II 1.77 (0.51, 0.16, 0.50, 0.33, 0.27); III 1.59 (0.45, 0.14, 0.42, 0.33, 0.25); IV 2.15 (0.62, 0.15, 0.62, 0.45, 0.31). Genitalia ( Fig. 33 View Figure 33 ). Palpal femur long; palpal tibia about 1.3 times as long as cymbium ( Figs 33A–B View Figure 33 ). Cymbium conical, with large prolateral extension basally. Bulb shaped like an irregular sphere. Embolus short, dark and basally with belt-like associated sclerites; sperm duct initially wide, abruptly narrowing distally ( Fig. 33D View Figure 33 ).

Female. Total length 1.06; carapace length 0.53; carapace width 0.42; abdomen length 0.59; abdomen width 0.40. Similar to male in color and general features ( Figs 34D–E View Figure 34 ). Chelicerae unmodified. Leg lengths I 1.69 (0.49, 0.15, 0.48, 0.32, 0.26); II 1.57 (0.45, 0.15, 0.44, 0.29, 0.24); III 1.44 (0.42, 0.15, 0.36, 0.28, 0.23); IV 1.92 (0.54, 0.15, 0.54, 0.40, 0.29). Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae very long, extending past the sides of the abdomen ( Fig. 34B View Figure 34 ); spermathecae oval ( Fig. 34A View Figure 34 ).

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.

IZCAS

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Ochyroceratidae

Genus

Speocera

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