Tchatkalophantes baltistan, V. & Tanasevitch, 2011
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5962/bhl.part.117817 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6311848 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D26B57-9F69-9948-FF48-F9B8FCB7FD4C |
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treatment provided by |
Carolina |
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scientific name |
Tchatkalophantes baltistan |
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sp. nov. |
Tchatkalophantes baltistan View in CoL sp. n. Figs 86-88
HOLOTYPE: 1 ♀ ( MSNV), PAKISTAN, Karakorum , Baltistan, Shalabot, 1700 m a.s.l.; 15.VIII.1976; leg. G. Osella.
FIGS 86-88
Tchatkalophantes baltistan sp. n., ♀ holotype. (86-88) Epigyne, ventral, dorsal (upside down) and lateral views, respectively.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is taken from the name of the country of origin.
DESCRIPTION: Female. Total length 1.96. Carapace 0.78 long, 0.60 wide, unmodified, pale brown, almost yellow. Chelicerae 0.35 long, unmodified. Legs mostly lost, yellow. Leg I 3.42 (0.93+0.23+0.88+0.83+0.55), FeI 0.90 long. Chaetotaxy: FeI: 0-1-0-0; TiI: 2-1-1-0, TiII: 2-0-1-0, III-IV:?; MtI: 1-0-0-0, II-IV:? TmI 0.25. Abdomen 1.30 long, 0.90 wide, dorsally dark grey, with irregularly arranged small white spots. Epigyne (Figs 86-88): Aperture wide. Proscape with a narrow base, stepwise widening in middle part, bifurcated distally. Posterior median plate triangular.
Male unknown.
TAXONOMIC REMARKS: The new species is similar to the Mongolian T. hyperauritus (Loksa, 1965) and differs by a shallower depression in the distal part of the proscape, as well as by the shape of the posterior median plate: in T. baltistan sp. n. it wider than high vs higher than wide in T. hyperauritus .
DISTRIBUTION: Known from the type locality only.
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Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia |
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