Pseudopoda houaphan, Jäger, Peter, 2007

Jäger, Peter, 2007, Spiders from Laos with descriptions of new species (Arachnida: Araneae), Acta Arachnologica 56 (1), pp. 29-58 : 55

Pseudopoda houaphan spec. nov.

Figs. 93-95

Type material. Female holotype ( MNHN), Laos, Houaphan Prov., Muong You ( L 16), Vitalis de Salvaza leg. 17.XI.-8.XII.1918, PJ 2343 .

Etymology. The species is named according to its type locality, Houaphan Province; noun in apposition.

Diagnosis. Female similar to that of P. namkhan ( Jäger et al. 2006: figs. 25- 27). The new species may be recognised by having a broader epigynum, by the shorter anterior bands ( Fig. 93 ), by the distinctly wound section situated (functionally) before fertilisation ducts ( Fig. 95 ) and by longer fertilisation ducts ( Fig. 94 ).

Description. Female (holotype). PL 5.6, PW 5.2, AW 2.9, OL 6.1, OW 3.7. Eye diametres: AME 0.30, ALE 0.35, PME 0.31, PLE 0.37. Eye interdistances: AME-AME 0.19, AME-ALE 0.09, PME-PME 0.34, PME-PLE 0.43, AME- PME 0.41, ALE-PLE 0.35, clypeus AME 0.45, clypeus ALE 0.43. Leg and pedipalpus measurements: pedipalpus 7.9 (2.3, 1.2, 2.0, -, 2.4); leg I 23.7 (6.5, 2.7, 6.9, 5.6, 2.0); leg II 24.9 (7.1, 2.8, 7.1, 5.8, 2.1); leg III 18.9 (5.7, 2.3, 5.1, 4.3, 1.5); leg IV 21.5 (6.7, 2.0, 5.5, 5.5, 1.8). Leg formula: 2143. Leg spination: pedipalpus: 131, 101, 2121, 1014; femur: I—HI 323, IV 321; patella: 101; tibia: 2126; metatarsus: I- II 1014, III 2024 (+ additional short ventral, distal, median spine), IV 3036 (+ additional short ventral, distal, median spine). Epigynal field transversally oval. Lateral lobes with posterior median indentation, their anterior margins slightly undulated ( Fig. 93 ).

Colour in ethanol. [Colouration is only hardly visible in this badly preserved specimen] Yellowish brown. Sternum, labium, coxae brighter yellowish brown, without pattern. Dorsal OS with irregular pattern.

Male. Unknown

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.

Figures

Figs. 93 - 97. 93 - 95 Pseudopoda houaphan spec. nov. Female holotype from Muong You (L 16). 93 Epigynum, ventral view; 94 internal duct system, dorsal view; 95 schematic course of internal duct system, dorsal view. 96 - 97. Rhitymna plana Jäger 2003. Female from Muong You (L 16). 96 Epigynum, ventral view; 97 internal duct system, dorsal view, ab — anterior bands of epigynal field.