Revision of the spider genus Hamataliwa Keyserling from China (Araneae: Oxyopidae)
Author
Zhang, Jun-Xia
Author
Zhu, Ming-Sheng
Author
Song, Da-Xiang
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Zootaxa
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Hamataliwa
Keyserling, 1887
Hamataliwa
Keyserling 1887: 458
. —
Brady 1964: 496
;
1970: 78
.
Oxyopeidon
O. Pickard Cambridge 1894: 139.
Type
species.
Hamataliwa grisea
Keyserling, 1887
, by monotypy.
Diagnosis.
Hamataliwa
can be distinguished from the closely related genus
Oxyopes
by the following characters: female epigynum with a shallow median depression surrounded by a semicircular or Ushaped, heavily sclerotized rim (
Figs. 2
,
7
,
12
,
17
,
22
); copulatory ducts usually short, spermathecae round or oval (
Figs. 3
,
8
,
13
,
18
,
23
); embolus of male palp forming a characteristic twist or loop near the base; edge of cymbium with a basal outgrowth, fingerlike in lateral view (
Figs. 4–5
,
9–10
,
14–15
,
19–20
,
24–25
). Copulatory ducts and spermathecae are always wrapped with gluelike materials after copulation (
Figs. 3
,
8
,
13
), which is not detected in
Oxyopes
.
Description.
See general characteristics of the genus described by
Brady (1964)
.