NEW SPECIES OF SPIDERS (ARANEAE) FROM HAINAN ISLAND, CHINA
Author
Alberto T. Barrion
Author
Aimee Lynn A. Barrion-Dupo
Author
Josie Lynn A. Catindig
Author
Sylvia C. Villareal
Author
Ducheng Cai
Author
Qianhua Yuan
Author
Kong Luen Heong
text
UPLB Museum Publications in Natural History
2016
3
1
103
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.269136
aa2af867-04e4-4d4d-b40f-5d3d530c15d2
0119-0084
269136
Tmarus shuquianglii
Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong
,
new species
[
Figure
48
A-E]
MALE.
Holotype
male, total length 3.00 mm. Cephalothorax length
1.71 mm
., width
1.30 mm
. Abdomen length
2.10 mm
, width
1.30 mm
.
Carapace dark reddish brown, parallel-sided with relatively short white hairs,
1.30
x longer than wide, eye margins light reddish brown and whitish eye tubercles. Chelicerae brown, longer than wide with very short fang. Promargin and retromargin both toothless. Retrolateral side of chelicerae rebordered and indented subbasally, dorsum finely punctuated medially but rugose submedially. Pedipalp whitish yellow with brown embolus. Maxillae whitish yellow, longer than wide, apical margins converging and serrula black. Labium yellow brown,
2
x
longer than wide, broadest medially and narrows on both ends. Sternum yellow and heart-shaped, four pairs of long bristles on apical one-fourth, apical margin straight and posterior margin blunt.
Eyes.
In two rows of four. AER more recurved and shorter than
PER
(
0.98
:
1.30 mm
.). Lateral eyes on a tubercle. Eye diameter (mm): PLE
(
0.14
)> ALE (
0.13
)> PME (
0.09
)> AME (
0.06
).
Eye separation (mm): PLE-PLE (
0.37
)> PME-PME (
0.34
)> AME-AME (
0.29
)> AME-PME (
0.23
)> ALE-PLE (
0.21
)> AME-ALE (
0.17
). Clypeus height very wide,
7
x
AME diameter.
Legs.
Uniformly whitish yellow with black spines, tarsal claws, and claw tufts. Spination in femora
I and II
3
-
0-1
-0,
III and IV
3
-0-0-0; tibia
I
2-3
-
3
-
3
,
II
2
-
2
-3-
3
,; metatarsi I and II
0-6
-
2
-
1
, III
0-1
-0-0 and IV
0-2
-0-0. Metatarsus I with a long trichobothrium on apical one-sixth and two shorter ones located anterior and posterior of the long one. Leg formula
2134
.
Abdomen.
Black with brownish tinge and covered with short white hairs, oblong with thin anterior part overhanging thoracic area, lateral margins with five white longitudinal ridges and posterior one-third lined with
9-10
transverse white ridges. Venter grayish brown marked with four light brownish yellow longitudinal bands bulging anterior of the epigastric furrow and two rounded brown spots on each side of the bulge. Spinnerets brownish yellow encircled by a white ring.
Palpal organ with the seminal duct sigmoid and obliquely centered in the cymbium, pars pendula globose and apical coil of embolus around it,
VTA
with a blunt tip and RTA sharply pointed and needle-like. Dorsum of cymbium with two dorsal and one retrolateral spines. Tibia bears five trichobothria and four long prolateral spines.
FEMALE.
Unknown.
Material Examined.
Holotype
male (coll. no.
Ha
2011
-
2
),
CHINA
, Hainan Island, Haikou,
9
April
2011
, ATBarrion, JLACatindig and SCVillareal.
Barrion et al.
Diagnostic Features.
Closely resembles
Tmarus qinlingensis
Song and Wang,
1994
and
T. piger
(Walckenaer,
1802
)
in terms of general appearance but differs from both in the (
1
) shape of
VTA
and RTA, (
2
) globose pars pendula, (
3
) median position of the sigmoid seminal duct, (
4
) abdominal band pattern, (
5
) number and position of trichobothria in metatarsus I and palpal
patella
, and (
6
) leg spination and length.
Etymology.
Patronym, in honor Dr. Shuqiang Li, for his contributions strengthening the foundation of knowledge Chinese arachnology.
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