Forest Spiders of South East Asia With a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanteriidae).
Author
Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa
text
2001
Brill Leiden; Boston; Köln
Leiden, Netherlands
Forest Spiders of South East Asia With a revision of the sac and ground spiders- Family Liocranidae
400
505
book chapter
10.5281/zenodo.814704
887f4c2c-1812-4aa5-b994-58388f6a45c5
814704
Plynnon longitarse
sp. n.
(
figs 721-729
,
map 37
)
Type locality.
—
Indonesia
, C
Kalimantan
, 2°02/
S
,
11°35'E
, primary forest.
Type material.
—
Holotype
♂, “
Tumbang Tahai”, primary peat bog forest
,
2-13.ix. 1985
,
S. Djojosudharmo
; in the same area occurs
P. zborowskii',
paratypes
: 1 ♀, “
Kaharian
”,
2°02'S
11 °40'E
, same data.
Other
material.— None.
Diagnosis
.— Characterized by the male palp with femoral boss covered with black teeth and by the different spatial arrangement of parts of vulva visible through the tegument. Further distinguishable from
zborowskii
by the less contrastingly coloured legs with entirely dark femora II-IV.
Description
.— Male. Total length
2.65 mm
. Carapace length
1.25 mm
, width 1.00 mm, height at coxae II
0.45 mm
, head width
0.55 mm
, eye group width
0.40 mm
; abdomen
1.25 mm
long,
0.90 mm
wide.
Leg
lengths:
leg
I 3.00 mm (0.85-1.10-0.55-0.50),
leg II
2.70 mm
(0.80-0.95-0.50-0.45), leg III
2.50 mm
(0.70-0.80-0.55-0.45), leg IV
3.90 mm
(1.10-1.25-0.95-0.60), palp 0.45-0.22-
0.22-0.50 mm
. Carapace, mouthparts and sternum dark chestnut brown, legs paler, anterior coxae pale brown, posterior coxae yellow, all femora dark. Abdomen dark and shiny dorsally, ventrally a little paler, without pattern. Both eye rows slightly recurved, in both rows lateral eyes larger than median eyes. Clypeus protruding, a little larger than d ALE. Underside of cephalothorax
fig. 723
. Leg spination: tibiae I with 1-1-1-1- 1
pv
, 1-1-1-1rv, tibia II
with
1-1-1-1pv
and
1-1-1rv; metatarsi I and II with 1 pair of long strong spines ventrally. Abdomen entirely covered with scutum, ventrally an epigastric scutum only; spinnerets
fig. 728
. Palp
figs 724-725
, femur with conspicuous retrolateral boss, covered with black teeth of various size; embolus relatively very short.
FEMALE (
figs 721-722
). Total length
2.30 mm
. Carapace length
1.30 mm
, width 1.00 mm, height
0.35 mm
, head width
0.55 mm
, eye group width
0.40 mm
; abdomen
1.35 mm
long,
0.87 mm
wide, epigyne
0.35 mm
wide. Leg lengths: leg I
2.80 mm
(0.85-0.95-0.50- 0.50), leg II
2.95 mm
(0.90-1.00-0.60-0.45), leg III
2.60 mm
(0.75-0.80-0.60-0.45), leg IV
4.15 mm
(1.20-1.35-1.00-0.60), palp 0.40-0.20-0.25-
0.45 mm
. Carapace, eyes, mouthparts and legs as in male. Abdomen dorsally with a transverse white band with white setae. Spinnerets
figs 727, 729
. Epigyne and vulva
fig. 726
.
Distribution
.— Only known from type locality, the boggy lowland forests of Central Kalimantan, where it lives together with
P. zborowskii
.
When writing this, (1998), the peat swamp forests of Kaharian and Tumbang Tahai, only known home for this rare species, have been converted to oil palm plantations.
Figs 730-733.
Plynnon
jaegeri
.
730. Male holotype, habitus. 731. Palp, ventral. 732. Retrolateral. 733. Epigyne.
Etymology
.—
longitarse,
Latin
, refers to the tarsi I which are almost as long as metatarsi I.