Seven new species of Psechrus and additional taxonomic contributions to the knowledge of the spider family Psechridae (Araneae)
Author
Bayer, Steffen
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-05-16
3826
1
1
54
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3826.1.1
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argentatus-
group
Diagnosis
(after
Bayer
2012
): Males with very long, filiform embolus, which is at least
2
x
as long as tegulum. Conductor long (ca. as long as tegulum), narrow, sclerotised and with slightly broadened base (
Bayer
2012
, figs
2
a–c), the latter ca. three times broader than median section.
Females with very large, distinctly broad and flat copulatory ducts (
Bayer
2012
, figs
2
h,
5
c). Spermathecal heads upon long ‘stalks’; spermathecal heads including stalks ca. four times longer than broad.
The
argentatus
-group includes the two species
Psechrus libeltii
Kulczyński,
1908
and
P. argentatus
(Doleschall,
1857
)
and is distributed in
Indonesia
(except Java),
Papua New Guinea
,
Malaysia
and (Southern)
Thailand
.