On linyphiid spiders from Java, Indonesia, with the description of three new genera and four new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
Author
Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
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Revue suisse de Zoologie
2020
2020-06-04
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http://dx.doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0006
journal article
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Javanyphia
gen. nov.
Type
species:
Javanyphia gede
sp. nov.
Diagnosis:
The genus contains large-sized, linyphiine-like erigonines, with a total length of 2.3-2.4, which are characterized by the following combination of somatic and genitalic characters:
1) Carapace unmodified, eyes normal in size, cephalic pits (= sulci) absent (
Figs 7-9
).
2) Abdomen with a dorsal pattern (
Figs 7-8
).
3) Chaetotaxy formula 2.2.1.1; each metatarsus with a trichobothrium; TmI 0.78-0.82.
4) Palpal tibia modified, with a distal claw-shaped apophysis (
Figs 21, 23
).
5) Paracymbium relatively small.
6) Tegulum with a protegulum (
Fig. 21
)
7) Median membrane reduced.
8) Distal suprategular apophysis moderately developed (
Fig. 25
).
9) Embolus relatively short, slightly curved; radix wide, flat; convector absent (
Figs 22, 25
).
Etymology:
The generic name is a combination of two words: “
Java
”, the “terra typica”, and a part of the genus name
Linyphia
. The gender is feminine.
Species included:
Only the
type
species,
Javanyphia gede
sp. nov.
Taxonomic remarks:
There are many large-sized, robust erigonines in an informal group which show the leg chaetotaxy formula 2.2.1.1 coupled with the presence of a trichobothrium on MtIV, e.g.
Gnathonarium
Karsch, 1881
,
Gongylidium
Menge, 1868
,
Ummeliata
Strand, 1942
, etc. In its habitus the new genus resembles these genera, and especially
Tmeticus
Menge, 1868
, but it has a different palp structure. The palp conformation of
Javanyphia
gen. nov.
is characterized by a simple structure of the distal suprategular apophysis and of the embolic division, and their shapes resemble those of the Palaearctic-West Nearctic
Leptorhoptrum robustum
(
Westring, 1851
)
, which has the chaetotaxy formula 2.2.2.2. This similarity seems to be only a superficial resemblance, and finding a female will allow us to correctly determine the placement of the genus in the subfamily
Erigoninae
.
Distribution:
Known only from the
type
locality on
Java
,
Indonesia
.