Two new linyphiid species from Borneo and Sumatra (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
Author
Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
tanasevitch@gmail.com
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2020
2020-06-10
68
473
478
journal article
55740
10.26107/RBZ-2020-0065
8c7e8306-bdf3-4971-a98b-577b5df0fa40
2345-7600
4576942
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Pseudomicrocentria
Miller, 1970
Type
species.
Pseudomicrocentria minutissima
Miller, 1970
.
Revised diagnosis.
The discovery of
P. uncata
,
new species
, warrants the diagnosis of the genus as given by
Locket (1982)
to be refined. Species of this genus are small-sized (total length 1.10–1.40) with an unmodified carapace. The formula of leg chaetotaxy is 2.2.2.1, metatarsi I–III each with a trichobothrium. The male palp is characterised by a very simple structure of the embolic division, the radix being continuous with the embolus. The palpal structure is very similar to that many erigonine genera, particularly
Tapinocyba
Simon, 1884
. The genus
Pseudomicrocentria
is easily distinguished from
Tapinocyba
by the absence of sulci on the male carapace, as well as by the formula of leg chaetotaxy 2.2.2.1 vs. 1.1.1.1.
Speciesincludedandtheirdistributions.
Pseudomicrocentria minutissima
has been recorded from
the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(
Miller, 1970
),
Nigeria
(Locket & Russel-Smith, 1980), and the
Republic of South Africa
(
Jocqué, 1984
).
Pseudomicrocentria simplex
Locket, 1982
, is known only from
Singapore
(
Locket, 1982
). A third species of the genus,
P. uncata
,
new species
has been collected on Borneo, East
Malaysia
and is described below.