Review of the wolf spider genus Xerolycosa Dahl, 1908 from China (Araneae: Lycosidae)
Author
Wang, Lu-Yu
0000-0002-5250-3473
Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Author
Marusik, Yuri M.
0000-0002-4499-5148
Institute for Biological Problems of the North RAS, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan 685000, Russia & Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
yurmar@mail.ru
Author
Peng, Xian-Jin
0000-0002-2614-3910
College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China
Author
Zhang, Zhi-Sheng
Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-06-04
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5463.1.3
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Xerolycosa xinjiangensis
sp. nov.
(ūēªDƃ)
Figures 12A–B
,
13A–C
,
14
Type material.
Holotype
male
,
Xinjiang
,
Shihezi City
,
Manasi County
,
44°18.091′N
,
86°12.890′E
, elev.
470 m
,
August 2015
,
J. Su
&
T. Li
leg. (SWUC-T-LY-13-01).
Etymology.
The specific name comes from the
type
locality.
FIGURE 12.
Xerolycosa xinjiangensis
sp. nov.
. Holotype male. A. Left male pedipalp, ventral view; B. Same, retrolateral view.
Diagnosis.
Male of this new species resembles
X. mongolica
(
Figs 6A–B
,
7C–G
,
8A–E
), but differs from the latter by the slightly branched terminal apophysis and median apophysis larger and with a long, cuspidal ventral process (
Figs 12A–B
,
13B–C
).
FIGURE 13.
Xerolycosa xinjiangensis
sp. nov.
. Holotype male. A. Male habitus, dorsal view; B. Left male pedipalp, ventral view; C. Same, retrolateral view.
Description.
Male
holotype
(
Fig. 13A
) total length 6.43. Carapace 3.60 long, 2.35 wide; opisthosoma 2.58 long, 1.92 wide. Carapace yellow brown. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.15, ALE 0.10, PME 0.37, PLE 0.32; AME–AME 0.08, AME–ALE 0.05, PME–PME 0.29, PME–PLE 0.39. Clypeus height 0.09. Chelicerae, labium, endites and sternum yellow brown. Sternum with sparse brown setae. Leg measurements: I 10.61 (3.15, 3.33, 2.64, 1.49); II 7.65 (2.25, 2.39, 1.82, 1.19); III 10.95 (3.13, 3.15, 3.06, 1.61); IV 13.58 (3.81, 4.07, 3.88, 1.82). Leg formula: 4312. Opisthosoma oval. Dorsum yellow brown, with black mark, cardiac mark dark brown. Venter yellow brown.
Male pedipalp (
Figs 12A–B
,
13B–C
). Subtegulum baso-prolaterally located. Terminal apophysis membranous, wide and with a somewhat bifurcate tip. Embolus long. Conductor small and membranous, with a rounded end. Median apophysis strong, with an axe-like ventral process.
Female
unknown.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality in
Xinjiang
,
China
(
Fig. 14
).