Telema dengi, Tong & Li, 2008

Tong, Yanfeng & Li, Shuqiang, 2008, The Spiders Of The Genus Telema (Araneae: Telemidae) From Hainan Island, China, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (1), pp. 67-74 : 69-73

Telema dengi , new species

( Figs. 1C , 4A–H , 6 )

Holotype. – Male ( IZCAS), Luobi Cave (18 ° 20'N 109 ° 33'E), Lizhigou Town, Sanya City, Hainan Island, China, coll. X. Han, Y. Song, G. Deng and Y. Tong, 10–11 Apr.2005.

Paratypes. – 26 females, 23 males ( IZCAS), same data as holotype ; 4 females, 14 males ( IZCAS), a cave (not named), Lizhigou Town , Sanya City, Hainan Island, China, same collectors as holotype, 11 Apr.2005 .

Diagnosis. – This new species is similar to T. dongbei and can be distinguished from T. dongbei and all the congeneric species by the presence of eyes, the distinctive shape of palpal bulb of males, and the shape of spermathecae of females.

Description. – Males. Total length 1.20–1.49. Carapace 0.60– 0.70 long, 0.56–0.62 wide; abdomen 0.66–0.82 long, 0.60– 0.73 wide. Carapace, legs, labium, endites and chelicerae yellow; sternum yellow, with margins dark colour. Abdomen grayish; spinnerets and colulus white. Carapace without patterns, with pair of setae at clypeus, behind eyes, and at middle. Six eyes, anterior row of four eyes nearly straight, AM close together, nearly touching, separated from AL by one diameter of AL, lateral eyes contiguous. Promargin of fang furrow with one large tooth, one relatively small tooth and three barely visible granulous denticles, retromargin with four barely visible denticles, in which the one near base of fang larger. Legs with dorsal spine at distal end of patella as well as at middle of tibia. Leg measurements: I 4.58 (1.41, 0.21, 1.44, 0.90, 0.62); II 3.97 (1.26, 0.21, 1.22, 0.75, 0.53); III 2.81 (0.93, 0.19, 0.72, 0.54, 0.43); IV 3.50 (1.15, 0.19, 0.97, 0.70, 0.49). Leg formula: I-II-IV-III. Palp with prolateral cymbial apophysis; bulb oval with one relatively complex apophysis.

Females. Total length 1.26–1.52. Carapace 0.70–0.73 long, 0.61–0.63 wide; abdomen 0.65–0.83 long, 0.63–0.76 wide. Eyes and chelicerae as in male. Leg measurements: I 4.95 (1.57, 0.23, 1.59, 0.93, 0.63); II 4.27 (1.41, 0.22, 1.32, 0.79, 0.53); III 3.12 (1.03, 0.21, 0.87, 0.56, 0.45); IV 3.84 (1.29, 0.21, 1.11, 0.71, 0.52). Leg formula: I-II-IV-III. Epigynum with one row of hairs on epigynal plate, and another row behind epigastric furrow. Spermatheca narrow basally and strongly swollen at distal end.

Etymology. – The species is named after the collector Mr. Gaoyun Deng, a colleague at Hainan Normal University, China.

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Figures

Fig. 1. Dorsal views of Telema spiders: A, T. bella, new species, dorsal view; B, T. breviseta, new species, dorsal view; C, T. dengi, new species, dorsal view; D, T. spina, new species, dorsal view.

Fig. 4. Telema dengi, new species: A, female endites, labium and sternum in ventral view; B, male left palp in retrolateral view; C, male left palp in prolateral view; D, female genitalia in dorsal view; E, Spermatheca in lateral view; F, colulus; G, chelicerae in ventral view; H, female genitalia in ventral view. Scale bars: A, D, E, G, H = 0.2 mm; B, C = 0.1 mm; F = 0.05 mm.

Fig. 6. Collection localities of Telema spiders in Hainan, China.