A review of the genus Bifidocoelotes Wang, 2002, with the description of three new species from China (Araneae, Agelenidae)
Author
Liao, Rongrong
0000-0002-8904-7053
College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China & rrl @ hunnu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8904 - 7053
rrl@hunnu.edu.cn
Author
Wang, Ziwei
Shuda College, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410000, Hunan, China
Author
Yin, Haiqiang
0000-0003-0276-2407
College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China & yinhaiqiang @ hunnu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0276 - 2407
yinhaiqiang@hunnu.edu.cn
Author
Xu, Xiang
College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China
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Zootaxa
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2022-12-19
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Bifidocoelotes primus
(
Fox, 1937
) (ṀȒDĦ)
Figures 1B
,
2C
Wadotes primus
Fox, 1937: 1
, figs 1, 2;
Bennett, 1987: 126
, figs 109, 110.
Coelotes primus
:
Wang, Tso & Wu, 2001: 129
(transferred from
Wadotes
).
Bifidocoelotes primus
:
Wang, 2002: 37
(transferred from
Coelotes
);
Wang, 2003: 503
, figs 2A, B, 97G;
Wang & Jäger, 2010: 1170
, fig. 1A;
Zhou, Yuen & Zhang, 2017: 433
, figs 3A–E, 4A–G, 5;
Zhu, Wang & Zhang, 2017: 127
, fig. 45A, B.
Type material.
Holotype
female and
female
paratype
from Hong Kong,
China
,
holotype deposited in the
American Museum of Natural History
(
AMNH
) and
paratype
(U. S.
N. M. Cat. No.
1232) in the
United States
National Museum
(
USNM
), not examined.
Diagnosis.
According to photos and drawings in
Zhou
et al.
(2017)
, the female is similar to those of
B. mammiformis
sp. nov.
and
B. quadratus
sp. nov.
in having a long epigynal tooth with two widely separated distal branches; the spermathecal heads of this species are also much larger and situated closer to each other than those of
B. mammiformis
(compare
Zhou
et al
. 2017
: figs 3B, 4D with
Fig. 5D
), and the atrium of this species is much smaller than that of
B. quadratus
(compare
Zhou
et al
. 2017
: figs 3A, 4C with
Fig. 6C
).
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality in
China
(
Hong Kong
) (
Fig. 7
).