Habrocestoides wulingensis, Peng Xian-jin & Xie Li-ping, 1995

Peng Xian-jin & Xie Li-ping, 1995, Spiders of the genus Habrocestoides from China (Araneae: Salticidae), Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10, pp. 57-64 : 57

Habrocestoides wulingensis , sp. nov. (Figs. 39-43)

Material: Female holotype, 1♀ paratype, Mt. Wuling, Suoxiyu, Cili , Hunan, August 1981, leg. Wang Jia-fu .

Etymology: The specific name is derived from the type locality, Mt. Wuling.

Diagnosis: This new species is closely related to H. wulingoides sp. nov., but differs from the latter by: (1) abdominal pattern with two pairs of large white patches and many scattered black striae (Fig. 39), that of H. wulingoides with many black inclined striae but without large white patches (Fig. 44); (2) accessory gland not covered by a lamella as found in H. wulingoides (arrowed in Fig. 47).

Female: TL 3.4-5.0. Holotype: TL 5.0, CL 2.0, CW 1.7, AEW 1.4, PEW 1.3, EFL 0.9, AL 3.2, AW 2.3. Carapace brown to dark brown with black margin, fovea and radial furrow distinct; anterior four eyes equidistant, diameter of AME about twice that of ALE, ALE = PLE, PME at midpoint between ALE and PLE. Sternum oval, brown, margin with long hairs. Clypeus brown, low, height less than one-third radius of AME. Chelicerae dark brown, two promarginal teeth, 1 retromarginal. Endites and labium dark brown, distal end pale and with dense fine hairs. Legs yellow to light brown, dark annuli on distal part of each segment (paratype without annuli). Legs I and II with sparse lateral spines, three pairs of ventral spines on tibia I, 5 ventral spines on tibia II, two pairs of ventral spines on metatarsi I and II. Formula: 4, 3, 1, 2. Measurements:

Abdomen oval, dorsum grey with scattered dark striae; two pairs of large white patches, anterior pair triangular and posterior pair oval (Fig. 39); ventrally yellowish, three obscure longitudinal black lines in median area, black inclined striae in two lateral areas. Spinnerets brown. Epigyne and vulva (Figs. 40-43): epigyne wide; copulatory canal complicatedly folded, slightly varied in manner of folding (Fig. 41, paratype; Figs. 42, 43, holotype).

Distribution: China (Hunan).