Two new and one newly recorded species of Corinnidae and Liocranidae from Taiwan (Arachnida: Araneae)
Author
Tso, I-Min
Author
Zhu, Ming-Sheng
Author
Zhang, Jun-Xia
Author
Zhang, Feng
text
Acta Arachnologica
2005
54
1
45
49
journal article
10.2476/asjaa.54.45
88906c77-3ad7-4b24-9efc-bdd9d96cf24b
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Oedignatha scrobiculata
Thorell 1881
(new record from Taiwan)
(
Figs. 1-3
)
Oedignatha scrobiculata
Thorell 1881
, p. 209; Deeleman- Reinliold 2001, p. 267, figs. 348-356.
Oedignatha decorata
Simon 1897a
, p. 13.
Phrurolithus ulopatulisus
Barrion & Litsinger 1995
, p. 174, figs. lOOa-i, lOla-e.
Diagnosis.
This species is similar to
Oedignatha jocquei
Deeleman-Reinhold 2001
(
Deeleman-Reinhold 2001: 268, figs. 357-361
), but can be distinguished from the latter by: ventral projection of tibial apophysis of male palp thumblike, retrolateral projection bifid, tegular apophysis narrow and clawlike (
Figs. 2-3
); spermatheca simple and oval.
Male.
Total length 4.77: cephalothorax 2.30 long, 1.53 wide; abdomen 2.61 long, 1.44 wide. Carapace black, with numerous round punctuations (
Fig. 1
). Both eye rows procurved. AME larger than other eyes. Sternum covered with spaced conical elevations. Abdomen blackish brown, dorsum with 3 pairs of browny yellow spots at posterior half part and a few dark stripes. Abdomen with dorsal scutum, and ventral epigastric and postgenital scuta. Leg formula: 1 4 2 3, Tibial apophysis of palp with a thumb-shaped ventral projection and a bifid retrolateral projection, embolus long and filiform, conductor massive, tegular apophysis clawlike (
Figs. 2-3
).
Female.
See descriptions of
Deeleman-Reinhold (2001, p. 267, figs. 355-356)
.
Material examined.
1 male
,
Keng-Ting National Park
,
Pingtung County
,
Taiwan
,
March 2000
, collected by
Y. L. Hsieh
(
NMNS
-
THU -Ar -01-0196
)
.
Distribution.
Taiwan (Pingtung County), India to Philippines.