Amaurobiidae) from Thailand
Author
Dankittipakul, Pakawin
Author
Chami-Kranon, Thanaphum
Author
Wang, Xin-Ping
text
Zootaxa
2005
970
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.171296
c106f2cb-9848-48f8-9c92-4716c6071603
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171296
Coelotes thailandensis
Dankittipakul & Wang, 2003
Figures 9–12
Material examined.
HOLOTYPE
: ɗ (
MHNG
), northern
THAILAND
, Chiang Rai Province, Wiang Pa Phao District, Khun Jae National Park, Doi Mae Toh, Mae Toh Waterfall, leg. S. Sonthichai & P. Dankittipakul.
New material: 1 Ψ, Chiang Mai Province, Chom Thong District, Doi Inthanon National Park, Doi Inthanon, evergreen hill forest,
1630 m
–
1680 m
,
21.XII.2004
, leg. T. ChamiKranon & S. Sonthichai.
FIGURES 9–12.
Coelotes thailandensis
Dankittipakul & Wang, 2003
. Male holotype (11), male (12) and female (9–10) from Doi Inthanon. Epigyne (9) and its internal structures (10). Palpal patellae and tibiae, retrolateral view (11–12). Scale lines: 0.25 mm (9–10), 0.5 mm (11–12).
Remarks.
The male
holotype
of
C. thailandensis
was described from an evergreen forest in Chiang Rai Province but the corresponding female was then not known. Later, Ramirez & Grismado collected males and females of
Coelotes
on Doi Inthanon, approximately
100 km
away from the
type
locality of
C. thailandensis
. The palp of one of the males examined by Ramirez & Grismado (
Fig. 12
) resembles that of the
holotype
of
C. thailandensis
(
Fig. 11
) except for its distinctively shorter patellar apophysis. We consider this difference as intraspecific variation. Recently we collected a female specimen in the same area and believe that it also belongs to
C. thailandensis
. It is described in the following and can be recognized by an elongate epigynal atrium (
Fig. 9
) and by a strongly sclerotized internal genital structure with thickened ducts (
Fig. 10
).
Description. Ψ Total length 10.63. Carapace 5.31 long, 3.84 wide.
Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.18, ALE 0.24, PME 0.21, PLE 0.22; AME–AME 0.16, AME–ALE 0.17, PME–PME 0.10, PME–PLE 0.22, ALE–PLE 0.10; MOQ 0.65 long, front width 0.50, back width 0.56. Cheliceral groove with 3 promarginal and 4 retromarginal teeth.
Leg formula 4123 (23.56, 22.50, 19.75, 17.79). Leg measurements: femora: I 5.34, II 4.96, III 4.55, IV 5.80; patellae: I 1.38, II 1.10, III 0.99, IV 1.41; tibiae: I 6.90, II 5.81, III 5.15, IV 7.11; metatarsi: I 5.68, II 5.03, III 4.85, IV 6.33; tarsi: I 3.20, II 2.85, III 2.25, IV 2.91.
Epigyne (
Figs 9–10
): posterior margin slightly concave; atrium longitudinally elongate; epigynal teeth small, situated laterally, relatively far away from each other; internal structure strongly sclerotized; copulatory ducts indistinct (the anteriorly extended ends of the spermathecae might be the copulatory ducts); spermathecae short and thick; fertilization ducts of normal shape.
Natural history.
Coelotes thailandensis
inhabits evergreen hill forests between
1400 m
and
1680 m
. The male
holotype
was collected from an irregular sheetweb in a rotten log. The female was collected from a PVC tube (
3 cm
diameter) on the forest floor.
Distribution.
Known from the provinces of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, northern
Thailand
.