Twenty new spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from Late Cretaceous Kachin amber (Myanmar)
Author
Xin, Yafei
College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning, China & Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar Corresponding authors, E-mails: yaozy @ synu. edu. cn; lisq @ ioz. ac. cn
Author
Jiang, Tongyao
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Author
Yao, Zhiyuan
College of Life Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning, China
Author
Li, Shuqiang
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Zoological Systematics
2022
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http://zoobank.org/1c62670d-1ceb-4a0c-8a12-d8824f6b61da
journal article
10.11865/zs.2022101
2095-6827
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Palpalpaculla phyui
Jiang & Li
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 49–51
)
Holotype
.
Male
(IZCAS-Ar42701Fo).
Late Cretaceous
amber from
Hukawng Valley
. Syninclusions include two dipterans.
Figure 49.
Palpalpaculla phyui
Jiang & Li
,
sp. nov.
, holotype male (IZCAS-Ar42701Fo). A. Left palp, dorsal view; B. Right palp, dorsal view. Scale bars =0.05 mm.
Etymology. The species name is a popular Burmese boy’s name and means “white”; noun in apposition.
Diagnosis. The new species resembles
P. pulcher
(see
Wunderlich, 2017: 135
, figs 89–91, photos 66–67) by the bulb shape but can be distinguished by the embolus shape (
Figs 49A–B
,
51
). The embolus is tuber-shaped and straight in
P. pulcher
and the new species, but the embolus of the new species is more complex distally.
Description. Male. Total length 1.96; carapace 0.81 long, 0.52 wide; opisthosoma 1.15 long, 0.65 wide. Left palp: 0.46 (0.16 + 0.09 + 0.21), left leg I: - (- + - + - + 0.42 + 0.32), leg
II
: - (- + - + - + 0.33 + 0.28), leg
III
: - (- + - + - + 0.32+ 0.21), leg IV: - (- + - + - + 0.43 + 0.31); right palp: 0.43 (0.15 + 0.09 + 0.19), right leg I: - (0.72 + - + - + 0.41 + 0.33), leg
II
: - (0.46 + - + - + 0.35 + 0.33), leg
III
: - (0.41 + - + - + 0.33 + 0.30), leg IV: - (0.54 + - + - + 0.45 + 0.34). Eye sizes: ALE 0.06, AME 0.06, PLE 0.06, eyes interdistances not visible. Habitus as in
Figs 50A–B
. Carapace (
Fig. 50A
) sclerotized, reticulated, brown; cephalic part moderately raised; six eyes (
Fig. 50A
) almost ovoid, AME = ALE = PLE, ALE and PLE adjacent; clypeus brown; clypeus vertical anteriorly; labium triangular, distally obtuse; sternum marginally rugose, posterior corner protruded. Opisthosoma (
Figs 50A–B
): oval with sclerotized lateral plates, smooth, modified by tiny pits, covered with thin setae; ventral scutum rugose.
Figure 50.
Palpalpaculla phyui
Jiang & Li
,
sp. nov.
, holotype male (IZCAS-Ar42701Fo), habitus. A. Dorsal view; B. Ventral view. Scale bars = 0.50 mm.
Palp (
Figs 49A–B
,
51
). Femur and patella with apophysis; cymbium small; bulb long, strongly swollen distally, bent once; embolus originates from apex of oval palpal bulb; embolus sclerotized, thickened.