Meotipa species (Araneae, Theridiidae) from China Author Deng, Zhongwei CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China & Hubei Key Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Response, Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China & The State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering of China, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China Author Agnarsson, Ingi The State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering of China, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China & University of Vermont, Department of Biology, 109 Carrigan Drive, Burlington, VT 05405 - 0086, USA Author Chen, Zhanqi CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China chenzhanqi@xtbg.ac.cn Author Liu, Jie Hubei Key Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Response, Faculty of Resources and Environmental Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China & The State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering of China, College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, Hubei, China & School of Nuclear Technology and Chemistry and Biology, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xianning 437100, Hubei, China sparassidae@aliyun.com text ZooKeys 2022 2022-01-20 1082 153 178 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1082.75400 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1082.75400 1313-2970-1082-153 2D3FA191A9844F5A99D5C34473D5DC93 8F0E4A12AD535EE69910889A64CEE8BE Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895 Figures 3A-H , 9 , 10 Meotipa picturata Simon, 1894: 519 (nomen nudum); Simon, 1895: 133 (description of female); Levi and Levi 1962 : 47, figs 112-113 (female); Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009: 410, figs 1-3 (female); Kulkarni et al. 2017 : 515, figs 39-44 (female); Murthappa et al. 2017 : 590, figs 1A-J, 2A-F, 4A-D (description of male, female). Material examined (holotype not examined). Yunnan Province : 1♀, Mengla County, Menlun Town, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences ( 21.92°N , 101.26°E , 550 m), 22 November 2019, J. Chen, J. Liu, Z.C. Li & B. Liang leg. (CBEE). Diagnosis. Meotipa picturata is similar to M. sahyadri ( Kulkarni et al. 2017 : figs 1-38) in having a deep round atrium, the presence of rod-shaped projection with distinct oval openings distally in the median of the atrium (Fig. 3D ). It can be distinguished from the latter by the following combination of characters: (1) the rod-shaped projection with three openings in this species (Fig. 3D ), but two openings in M. sahyadri (see Kulkarni et al. 2017 : figs 19, 22); (2) the distal shape of rod-shaped projection is flat, quadrangular in M. picturata (Fig. 3E ), but triangular in M. sahyadri (see Kulkarni et al. 2017 : figs 19, 21); (3) the copulatory ducts curve outward in M. picturata (Fig. 3F ), but curve inward in M. sahyadri (see Kulkarni et al. 2017 : fig. 18); (4) the end of copulatory ducts enter into the spermathecae ventrally in M. picturata (Fig. 3E ), but laterally in M. sahyadri (see Kulkarni et al. 2017 : fig. 18). Description. Female. Total length 3.78; Prosoma length 1.31, width (at middle) 0.94, height (at middle) 0.47; Opisthosoma length 2.48, width (at middle) 1.17, height (at middle) 1.94; Eye diameters: ALE 0.08, AME 0.08, PLE 0.08, PME 0.08; Eye interdistances: AME-AME 0.06, ALE-ALE 0.15, PLE-ALE contiguous, PLE-PLE 0.19, PME-PME 0.09, PME-PLE 0.05, AME-ALE 0.04; Clypeus height (at middle) 0.31, width (at middle) 0.20; Measurements of legs: Leg I (right) 13.96 [4.74, 0.49, 3.02, 4.71, 1.00], II (right) 8.88 [3.02, 0.51, 1.69, 2.86, 0.80], III (right) 7.87 [2.28, 0.26, 0.94, 1.53, 2.86], IV (right) 12.19 [4.14, 0.32, 2.96, 3.96, 0.81]. Prosoma glabrous; clypeus narrow. Carapace with a central arrowed-shaped marking forward; fovea broad, smooth with distinct depression (Fig. 3A ). All eyes nearly uniform in size. Sternum triangular, yellow medially, lateral margins deep red and indented. Labium contiguous to the sternum, short with small hairs. Chelicera slanting, yellow with red fang (Fig. 3A-C ). Yellow legs long and slender with short hairs. Tibia with lanceolate spines and black ring distally; femur with black spots dorsally and red spots distally. Leg formula 1423. Pedipalp yellow with small hairs; tibia distally with red semicircle ventrally; tarsus with a single claw. Opisthosoma triangular laterally, very broad in lateral view, its dorsum provided with alternate red and yellow spots, posterior region knobbed extending upwardly, provided with lanceolate spines. Venter transparent, some small red, yellow, and white patches posteriorly (Fig. 3B ). Atrium broad, with a rod-shaped projection apically (Fig. 3D ); copulatory openings depressed, contiguous, located on the end of rod-shaped projection (Fig. 3E ); copulatory ducts broad, short, tube extensively curved entering into the base of spermathecae (Fig. 3F ); spermathecae asymmetrical in shape, left spermatheca gourd-shaped, right spermatheca oval; fertilization duct long, originating from the medial of basal spermathecae (Fig. 3H ). Male. Not collected. Distribution. China (Yunnan). New country and province record (Fig. 10 ).