NEW SPECIES OF SPIDERS (ARANEAE) FROM HAINAN ISLAND, CHINA
Author
Alberto T. Barrion
Author
Aimee Lynn A. Barrion-Dupo
Author
Josie Lynn A. Catindig
Author
Sylvia C. Villareal
Author
Ducheng Cai
Author
Qianhua Yuan
Author
Kong Luen Heong
text
UPLB Museum Publications in Natural History
2016
3
1
103
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.269136
aa2af867-04e4-4d4d-b40f-5d3d530c15d2
0119-0084
269136
Chrysso yulingu
Barrion, Barrion-Dupo Heong
,
new species
[
Figure
40
A-F]
&
FEMALE
.
Holotype
female, total length
2.40mm
. Cephalothorax length
0.90mm
, width
0.70mm
, height
0.50mm
. Abdomen length
1.50mm
, width
1.50mm
and height
1.20mm
.
Carapace blackish brown with a pale yellow triangular median band,
1.28
x longer than wide, cephalic area distinctly higher than thoracic area. Chelicerae blackish brown. Sternum black with pale yellow margin. Labium and maxillae black.
Eyes.
AE row strongly recurved and slightly longer than moderately recurved PE row. Eye diameter (mm): AME =
0.09
> PM =
0.08
> ALE =
0.063
> PLE =
0.57
. Clypeus height wide,
1.22
x AME diameter.
Legs.
Uniformly yellow except blackish brown venter of tibia I, metatarsus III, tibia IV and metatarsus IV, entire tarsus I and
1
prolateral and
1
retrolateral bristles and
3
dorsal trichobothria. Leg formula
1423
.
Abdomen
. Subtriangular, as long as wide, grayish yellow with a black median band, tip and venter of abdomen. Spinnerets located underneath almost at midlength of abdomen.
Epigynum with a pair oblongate spermathecae converging posteriorly, fertilization tube half coiled on top of spermathecae, median septum deeply concave.
MALE.
Unknown.
Material Examined.
Holotype
female (coll. no.Y06),
CHINA
, Hainan Island, Jianfengling,
Yulingu
Valley,
25
March-
0
9
April
2011
,
AT
Barrion,
JLA
Catindig, SCVillareal.
Paratype
1
female
, same data as for
holotype
.
Diagnostic Features.
This species runs very close to the general appearance of
Chrysso nigra
(O.P.-Cambridge,
1880
) but differs from the latter in (
1
) subtriangular abdomen with a black median blackish gray spot, (
2
) cephalothorax with a yellow triangular spot, (
3
) deeply concave C-shaped median septum, and (
4
) shape of spermathecae.
Etymology.
Named after
type
locality.