Pholcus yuxi Yao & Li, 2018

Zhu, Keli, Yao, Zhiyuan, Bai, Xiujuan & Li, Shuqiang, 2018, Five new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China and Thailand, Zootaxa 4377 (2), pp. 235-253 : 249-252

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4377.2.5

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:92AB898C-1B08-44C4-98B6-B0C31E8F9F7D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5996926

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FC23EE52-FFE0-9468-FF09-FAA75E079AE2

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Plazi

scientific name

Pholcus yuxi Yao & Li
status

sp. nov.

Pholcus yuxi Yao & Li View in CoL sp. nov.

FIGS 10–11 View FIGURE 10 View FIGURE11

Type material. Holotype: MAlE, SHIMEN GORGE (23°58.405'N, 101°31.558'E, ElEVATION 1989 M), AIlAO MOUNTAIN SCENIC SPOT, GASA TOWN, XINPING COUNTY, YUXI, Yunnan, China, 30 MAY 2015, Z GoogleMaps . CHEN AND Y. LI lEG. Paratypes: 2 MAlES AND 3 FEMAlES, SAME DATA AS HOlOTYPE .

Etymology. THE SPECIFIC NAME REFERS TO THE TYPE lOCAlITY, AND IS A NOUN IN APPOSITION.

Diagnosis. THIS SPECIES RESEMBlES P. qingyunensis YAO & LI, 2016 (SEE DONG et al. 2016B: 27, FIGS 19–20) WITH SIMIlAR MAlE CHElICERAE ( FIG. 11D View FIGURE11 ), UNCUS ( FIG. 11C View FIGURE11 ) AND EPIGYNUM ( FIG. 11A View FIGURE11 ) BUT CAN BE DISTINGUISHED BY THE SMAll, CURVED PROlATERAl APOPHYSIS SUBDISTAllY (ARROW 1 IN FIG. 10C View FIGURE 10 ) AND THE STRONGlY SClEROTIZED RETROlATERAl APOPHYSIS DISTAllY (ARROW 2 IN FIG. 10C View FIGURE 10 ) ON THE PROCURSUS, BY THE ABSENCE OF BRANCHES ON THE APPENDIX ( FIG. 11C View FIGURE11 ) AND BY THE NEARlY TRIANGUlAR PORE PlATES ( FIG. 11B View FIGURE11 ).

Description. Male (holotype): TOTAl lENGTH 4.86 (4.98 WITH ClYPEUS), CARAPACE 1.30 lONG, 1.68 WIDE, OPISTHOSOMA 3.56 lONG, 1.48 WIDE. LEG I: 40.99 (9.61 + 0.68 + 10.19 + 18.27 + 2.24), lEGS II–IV MISSING (SEE VARIATION); TIBIA I L/D: 68. DISTANCE PME-PME 0.30; DIAMETER PME 0.17; DISTANCE PME-ALE 0.04; DISTANCE AME- AME 0.07; DIAMETER AME 0.14. STERNUM WIDER THAN lONG (0.88/0.83). HABITUS AS IN FIGS 11E–F View FIGURE11 . CARAPACE YEllOWISH, WITH BROWN RADIATING MARKS AND BROWN BANDS MARGINAllY; OCUlAR AREA YEllOWISH, WITH BROWN MARKS ANTERIORlY; ClYPEUS AND STERNUM BROWN. LEG I YEllOWISH, BUT DARK BROWN ON PATEllAE, AND WHITISH ON PROXIMAl AND DISTAl PARTS OF FEMORA AND TIBIAE, FEMORA (SUBPROXIMAllY AND SUBDISTAllY) AND TIBIAE (SUBPROXIMAllY AND SUBDISTAllY) WITH DARKER RINGS. OPISTHOSOMA YEllOWISH, WITH SPOTS DORSAllY AND lATERAllY. OCUlAR AREA ElEVATED, WITHOUT EYE- STAlKS. THORACIC FURROW ABSENT. CHElICERAE MISSING, PARATYPE AS IN FIG. 11D View FIGURE11 , WITH A PAIR OF PROXIMO-lATERAl APOPHYSES, A PAIR OF DISTAl APOPHYSES, AND A PAIR OF FRONTAl APOPHYSES. PEDIPAlPS AS IN FIGS 10A–B View FIGURE 10 ; TROCHANTER WITH A VENTRAl APOPHYSIS; FEMUR WITH A DISTINCT VENTRAl PROTUBERANCE; TIBIA WITH A PROJECTION PROlATERAllY; PROCURSUS SIMPlE PROXIMAllY BUT COMPlEX DISTAllY, WITH TWO PROlATERO-DORSAl SPINES (ARROWS IN FIG. 10D View FIGURE 10 ); UNCUS WITH A SCAlY EDGE; APPENDIX SlIGHTlY CURVED; EMBOlUS WEAKlY SClEROTIZED. RETROlATERAl TRICHOBOTHRIUM OF TIBIA I AT 5% PROXIMAllY; lEG I WITH SHORT VERTICAl SETAE ON TIBIAE, METATARSI AND TARSI, WITHOUT SPINES AND CURVED SETAE; TARSUS I WITH 30 DISTINCT PSEUDOSEGMENTS.

Female: SIMIlAR TO MAlE, HABITUS AS IN FIGS 11G–H View FIGURE11 . TOTAl lENGTH 4.87 (5.06 WITH ClYPEUS), CARAPACE 1.40 lONG, 1.39 WIDE, OPISTHOSOMA 3.47 lONG, 2.03 WIDE; TIBIA I: 7.76; TIBIA I L/D: 52. DISTANCE PME-PME 0.25; DIAMETER PME 0.15; DISTANCE PME-ALE 0.04; DISTANCE AME-AME 0.05; DIAMETER AME 0.10. STERNUM WIDER THAN lONG (1.03/ 0.91). OCUlAR AREA WITH BROWN MARKS MEDIAllY AND lATERAllY. EPIGYNUM ( FIG. 11A View FIGURE11 ) WITH A KNOB. VUlVA ( FIG. 11B View FIGURE11 ) WITH A SClEROTIZED ANTERIOR ARCH AND TWO NEARlY TRIANGUlAR PORE PlATES.

Variation: TIBIA I IN THE OTHER TWO MAlE PARATYPES: 10.06, 12.30. TIBIA I IN THE OTHER TWO FEMAlE PARATYPES: 8.01, 8.33.

Distribution. CHINA (YUNNAN, TYPE lOCAlITY; FIG. 12 View FIGURE12 ).

Natural history. THE SPECIES WAS FOUND ON THE ROCK WAllS.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Pholcidae

Genus

Pholcus

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