The crab spiders of the Genus Tmarus from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Thomisidae)
Author
Tang, Guo
Author
Li, Shu-Qiang
text
Zootaxa
2009
2223
48
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.190156
86df4c5d-c499-4b0f-8b28-cb1c50c64e85
1175-5326
190156
Tmarus taiwanus
Ono, 1977
Figs 13
C–D, 14A–C
Tmarus taiwanus
Ono, 1977
: 75
, f. 33–34.
Song, 1987
: 279
, f. 236;
Song and Zhu, 1997
: 56
, f. 33A–B;
Song
et al.
, 1999
: 500
, f. 284G;
Han and Zhu, 2008
: 460
, f. 1–5.
Material examined:
(all from
CHINA
,
Yunnan
:
Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Menglun Town, G. Zheng leg.)
1 female
, secondary tropical montane evergreen broad-leaved forest (
N21º57.809'
,
E101º12.173'
, alt.
888 m
),
4 August 2007
;
1 female
,
Paramichelia baillonii
plantation (
N21º54.772'
,
E101º16.043'
, alt.
556 m
),
18 July 2007
;
1 female
,
Paramichelia baillonii
plantation (
N21º54.200'
,
E101º16.923'
, alt.
608 m
),
18 August 2007
.
Diagnosis.
This species is similar to
T. spicatus
sp. nov.
, the differences are discussed in the “diagnosis” of
T. spicatus
.
Description. Female
: Total length 7.00. Prosoma length 2.80, width 2.60; opisthosoma length 4.20, width 2.60. Prosoma brown with a grayish white markings posteriorly. Chelicerae, gnathocoxae and sternum yellow, labium light brown. Eye measurements: AME 0.07; ALE 0.20; PME 0.10; PLE 0.16; AME–AME 0.34; AME–ALE 0.24; PME–PME 0.42; PME–PLE 0.50. MOA length 0.50 with front width 0.46 and back width 0.66, Legs yellow. Leg formula: 1243; leg measurements: I: 13.20 (4.00, 5.00, 3.00, 1.20); II: 13.00 (4.00, 5.00, 2.80, 1.20); III: 6.90 (2.20, 2.80, 1.10, 0.80); IV: 6.80 (2.40, 2.50, 1.10, 0.80). Opisthosoma widest at 3/ 4 position, dorsum grayish with grayish black markings posteriorly, the rear projects digitiform, venter yellow.
Epigynum
(
Figs 13
C–D, 14B–C).
Epigynum
with an epigynal ridge anteriorly, copulatory ducts short, spermathecae convoluted.
Male:
See
Han and Zhu (2008)
.
Variation.
Total length, female: 6.80–7.00.
Distribution.
China
(Guangxi,
Taiwan
, Yunnan).