The symphytognathoid spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Araneoidea): Systematics and diversity of micro-orbweavers
Author
Miller, Jeremy
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Author
Griswold, Charles
California Academy of Sciences ,, United States of America
Author
Yin, Chang
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University ,, China
text
ZooKeys
2009
2009-05-31
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11
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journal article
10.3897/zookeys.11.160
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1313–2970
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C631A347-306E-4773-84A4-E4712329186B
Genus
Gaiziapis
Miller, Griswold & Yin
,
gen. n.
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Type
species.
Gaiziapis zhizhuba
Miller, Griswold & Yin
,
sp. n.
Etymology
.
Formed from the Chinese words for cover or shell (gài zi) and a suffix (apis) common for anapid genera. The gender is feminine.
Diagnosis
.
Male distinguished from other anapids except
Zealanapis
Platnick & Forster, 1989
,
Risdonius
Hickman, 1939
, and
Tasmanapis
Platnick & Forster, 1989
, by the deep anteromedian invagination of the dorsal scutum (
Fig. 59B
;
Platnick & Forster, 1989
: fig. 101); distinguished from
Risdonius
, and
Tasmanapis
by having a round, rather than triangular, abdomen and by the absence of a prolateral apophysis on the bulb (
Platnick and Forster 1989
: fig. 229); resembles
Zealanapis
in carapace texture and the form of the apophysis on the palpal patella, but differs in having a much more complicated palp with more membranes and sclerites (compare Fig. 61A with
Platnick and Forster 1989
: fig. 129).
Female distinguished from other
Anapidae
except
Enielkenie
Ono, 2006
by the following combination of characters: eight eyes, palp absent, book lung covers present, and abdomen round; distinguished from
Enielkenie
by the spacing of the eyes across the carapace (tightly grouped in
Enielkenie
so that the eyes take up about half the width of the carapace,
Ono et al. 2006
: fig. 20; spread out so the eyes take up nearly the entire width of the carapace in
Gaiziapis
:
Fig. 59D
), and by the reduced anterior median eyes in
Enielkenie
, subequal with other eyes in
Gaiziapis
.
Species
.
Gaiziapis zhizhuba
sp. n.