Leclercera pulongensis, Chang & Li, 2020

Chang, Wan-Jin & Li, Shuqiang, 2020, Thirty-one new species of the spider genus Leclercera from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Psilodercidae), ZooKeys 913, pp. 1-87 : 1

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.913.48650
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scientific name	Leclercera pulongensis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Leclercera pulongensis View in CoL sp. nov. Figs 47 View Figure 47 , 48 View Figure 48 , 57D View Figure 57 , 58 View Figure 58

Types.

Holotype: ♂ (IZCAS), China, Tibet Autonomous Region, Nyingchi, Mainling County, Pulong Village, 29°16.0980'N, 93°32.5380'E, elevation ca 3335 m, 10.VIII.2019, X. Zhang, Z. Bai and J. Liu leg.

Etymology.

The species name is an adjective referring to the type locality.

Diagnosis.

Diagnostic features of males are discussed in the diagnosis of L. shergylaensis sp. nov.

Description.

Male (Holotype). Total length 2.57; carapace 0.94 long, 1.13 wide; abdomen 1.63 long, 0.90 wide. Carapace round and brown, with dark brown traces marginally and medially (Fig. 47A View Figure 47 ). Chelicerae brown (Fig. 57D View Figure 57 ). Clypeus pale brown, with brown traces medially. Endites brown, light brown basally. Labium and sternum dark brown. Abdomen elongated, antero-dorsally with three pairs of dark brown spots laterally, posterior with dark brown horizontal stripes medially, antero-ventrally with pairs of brown kidney-shaped spots laterally, medially with elliptical patch, posterior with indistinct dark brown pattern. Legs uniformly brown; measurements: I 10.00 (3.00, 0.40, 3.00, 2.40, 1.20), II 9.31 (2.75, 0.31, 2.81, 2.19, 1.25), III 6.58 (1.80, 0.40, 1.88, 1.56, 0.94), IV 9.60 (2.80, 0.40, 2.80, 2.40, 1.20). Palp (Fig. 48A-D View Figure 48 ): femur slender, five times longer than patella; patella not swollen; tibia swollen, 1.2 times shorter and two times wider than femur, with prolateral apophysis bearing a hooked spine anteriorly, and more than 10 strong setae; cymbium 2.5 times shorter than femur; bulb brown, globose, with embolus and laminar apophysis arising distally; embolus thin and black, slightly longer than, and not attached to, laminar apophysis; laminar apophysis branched, with one branch four times wider than the other (Fig. 48B View Figure 48 ).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality (Fig. 58 View Figure 58 ).