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 songi
Han and Zhu, 2008
Figs 9A–D
,
10A–C
,
11A–D
Tmarus songi
Han and Zhu, 2008
: 459
–463, figs 1–5
Material examined:
(all from
CHINA
,
Yunnan
:
Xishuangbanna, Mengla County, Menglun Town, G. Zheng leg.):
7
males
,
3 females
, secondary tropical seasonal moist forest (
N21º54.607'
,
E101º17.005'
, alt.
633 m
),
28 July 2007
(Zheng_sp913-1);
1 male
,
1 female
, secondary tropical montane evergreen broad-leaved forest (
N21º54.767'
,
E101º11.431'
, alt.
880 m
),
6 August 2007
;
1 male
, primary tropical seasonal rainforest (N21º57.445, E101º12.997, alt.
744 m
),
30 July 2007
;
3 females
, Menglun, primary tropical seasonal rainforest (
N21º57.669'
,
E101º11.893'
, alt.
790 m
),
7 August 2007
;
6 females
, primary tropical seasonal rainforest (
N21º54.725'
,
E101º13.261'
, alt.
734 m
),
8 August 2007
;
2 males
,
1 female
,
Paramichelia baillonii
plantation (
N21º54.200'
,
E101º16.923'
, alt.
608 m
),
18 August 2007
.
Description. Male
: Total length 3.80. Prosoma length 1.60, width 1.60; opisthosoma length 2.00, width 1.20. Prosoma brown with a triangle grayish white marking. Eye tubercles grayish white. Eye measurements: AME 0.06; ALE 0.14; PME 0.08; PLE 0.14; AME–AME 0.14; AME–ALE 0.14; PME–PME 0.20; PME– PLE 0.28. MOA length 0.36 with front width 0.24 and back width 0.38. Chelicerae, gnathocoxae, labium and sternum yellow. Legs yellow. Leg measurements: I: 10.10 (2.90, 3.70, 2.40, 1.10); II: 10.00 (2.90, 3.60, 2.40, 1.10); III: 4.20 (1.40, 1.60, 0.60, 0.60); IV: 4.30 (1.60, 1.50, 0.60, 0.60). Leg formula: 1243. Opisthosoma dorsum grayish white with some long setae, the posterior with 3 pairs of transversal gray stripes, venter yellow.
Palp
(
Figs 9B–D
,
11A–B
). VTA digitiform; ITA wide and blunt, with a small apophysis laterally, RTA small digitiform, tegulum flat, sperm ducts visible, embolus spiniform.
Female
(measurements of Zheng_sp913-2): Total length 4.80. Prosoma length 1.70, width 1.60. Opisthosoma length 2.50, width 1.90. Body color shallow than in male. Eye measurements: AME 0.07; ALE 0.15; PME 0.10; PLE 0.14; AME–AME 0.16; AME–ALE 0.16; PME–PME 0.24; PME–PLE 0.36. MOA length 0.44 with front width 0.28 and back width 0.44. Leg formula: 1243; leg measurements: I: 8.10 (2.50, 3.10, 1.70, 0.80); II: 8.05 (2.50, 3.00, 1.75, 0.80); III: 3.80 (1.20, 1.50, 0.60, 0.50); IV: 4.10 (1.40, 1.60, 0.60, 0.50). Opisthosoma dorsum grayish white, the posterior with 3 pairs of transversal grayish brown spots, the rear grayish brown.
Epigynum
(
Figs 10B–C
,
11C–D
).
Epigynum
with a median atrium, copulatory openings anteriorly, copulatory duct globular, spermathecae small.
Variation.
Total length: male, 3.60–3.90; female, 4.60–5.00.
Distribution.
China
(Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan).