Spinirta leigongshanensis, Jin & Zhang, 2020

Jin, Chi & Zhang, Feng, 2020, Spinirta gen. nov., a new dark sac spider genus from southern China (Araneae: Corinnidae), Zootaxa 4838 (3), pp. 301-330 : 324-325

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.3.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4404469

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Spinirta leigongshanensis
status

sp. nov.

Spinirta leigongshanensis View in CoL sp. nov. (AE½ƜḦẊĦ)

Figs 20–21 View FIGURE 20 View FIGURE 21

Type material. Holotype: ♀, CHINA: Guizhou Province, Leishan County, Leigongshan Mountain, Xiannvtang (26°22.479′N, 108°11.858′E), 1576 m a.s.l., 13 September 2005, leg. Zhenguo Xie. GoogleMaps Paratypes: 1♀, same data as holotype GoogleMaps .

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the type locality; adjective.

Diagnosis. The female can be distinguished from other congeners by the extremely enlarged atrium completely fused by COs, and with parallel anterior and posterior margins. Male unknown.

Description. Female ( Figs 20–21 View FIGURE 20 View FIGURE 21 ). Total length 9.87–10.70 (n=2). Holotype: body 10.70 long; carapace 4.73 long, 3.74 wide, width: length = 0.79; abdomen 5.97 long, 3.86 wide. Diameters of eyes: AME 0.28, ALE 0.23, PME 0.22, PLE 0.21. Eye interdistances: AME–AME 0.17, AME–ALE 0.12, ALE–ALE 0.92, PME–PME 0.30, PME–PLE 0.31, PLE–PLE 1.34, ALE–PLE 0.14. OAW 1.62, CRW 2.43, OAW/CRW = 0.67. MOA 0.56 long, front width 0.70, back width 0.73. Clypeus height 0.35, 1.25 times AME diameter. Chelicerae with three promarginal teeth and five retromarginal teeth. Labium 0.75 long, 0.69 wide. Sternum 2.29 long, 2.00 wide. Measurements of legs: leg I 12.89 (3.71 + 1.66 + 3.07 + 2.81 + 1.64), II 12.55 (3.64 + 1.63 + 2.89 + 2.75 + 1.64), III 11.00 (3.00 + 1.48 + 2.42 + 2.57 + 1.53), IV 14.48 (3.84 + 1.60 + 3.44 + 3.98 + 1.62).

Epigyne ( Figs 20E View FIGURE 20 , 21A View FIGURE 21 ): anteriorly with an extremely enlarged, almost round atrium completely fused by COs; atrium with parallel anterior and posterior margins, anterior margin longer than posterior margin. Vulva ( Figs 20F View FIGURE 20 , 21B View FIGURE 21 ): copulatory ducts anteriorly extremely inflated, semicircular; accessory glands small, oval; spermathecae separated by nearly one and a half spermatheca’s width.

Distribution. China (Guizhou) ( Fig. 26 View FIGURE 26 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Corinnidae

Genus

Spinirta

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