Speocera bontoc 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 : 17

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:044F94BB-26D6-486A-95B6-F137F5C9AACB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5459939

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scientific name

Speocera bontoc Li & Li
status

sp. nov.

Speocera bontoc Li & Li View in CoL sp. nov. ( Figs 13 View Figure 13 , 58C View Figure 58 )

Material examined. Holotype ♀ ( IZCAS), Philippines, Luzon Island, Mountain Province, Bontoc Town , road to Banawe Town . Rainforest along the road, in the litter. (16º58.242′N, 121º1.505′E), elev. 1873 m, 22.V.2015, leg. F. Ballarin & Y. Li. GoogleMaps

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

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to S. suratthaniensis Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995 but can be distinguished by the large, oval spermathecae and the distinct bending of the tip of the afferent spermathecae ( Figs 13A–B View Figure 13 ). S. suratthaniensis females have small, oval spermathecae and a straight tip of the afferent spermathecae (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995: figs 293– 294).

Description. Female. Total length 1.06; carapace length 0.51; carapace width 0.42; abdomen length 0.56; abdomen width 0.43. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; shiny, light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern ( Fig. 13C View Figure 13 ); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide ( Fig. 13D View Figure 13 ). Endites light yellow suffused with purplish tinge; with serrula; labium light yellow suffused with purplish tinge. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles ( Fig. 58C View Figure 58 ). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation; PME and ALE subequal, PLE largest ( Fig. 13C View Figure 13 ). Opisthosoma oval; purplish ( Fig. 13D View Figure 13 ). Legs missing. Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae long, straight, not extending past the sides of the abdomen, distally with a distinct bend ( Fig. 13B View Figure 13 ); spermathecae large, oval ( Fig. 13A View Figure 13 ).

Male. Unknown.

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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