Telema nipponica (Yaginuma, 1972)

Zhao, Huifeng, Li, Shuqiang & Zhang, Aibing, 2020, Taxonomic revision of Telemidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from East and Southeast Asia, ZooKeys 933, pp. 15-93 : 15

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.933.38653

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scientific name

Telema nipponica (Yaginuma, 1972)
status

 

Telema nipponica (Yaginuma, 1972)

Merizocera nipponica Yaginuma 1972: 286, figs 10-14 (♀).

Telema nipponica : Yaginuma 1973: 22, figs 1-6 (♂♀); Yaginuma 1974: 14, figs 4-6 (♂); Shinkai 1977: 322, figs 1-3 (♂); Yaginuma 1986: 20, fig. 13.3 (♂); Chikuni 1989: 26, fig. 1 (♂); Ono 2009: 121, figs 1-6 (♂♀).

Type material.

Holotype: ♀, Japan, Yamanashi Prefecture, Narusawa-mura, Karumizu, Shoiko-daini-fuketsu Cave, 22.IX.1969, S. Ueno and K. Kato leg. Not examined.

Diagnosis.

This species resembles T. tenella but can be distinguished by the thumb-like shape of the embolus (cf. Yaginuma 1974: fig. 4), whereas in T. tenella , the embolus is short and triangular (cf. Wang et al. 2012: fig. 2C, D).

Description.

See Yaginuma (1972, 1973).

Distribution.

Japan (Site 15 in Fig. 33 View Figure 33 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Telemidae

Genus

Telema