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
Telamonia shepardi
Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong
,
new species
[
Figure
30
A-E]
FEMALE.
Holotype
female, total length
9.20 mm
. Cephalothorax length
4.20 mm
, width 3.00 mm. Abdomen length
4.65 mm
, width
2.10 mm
.
Paratype
female, total length
8.55 mm
.
Carapace.
Yellow with black eye margins,
1.4
x longer than wide. Cephalic area with an inverted M-shaped orange red band, a pair of parallel orange red band between ALE and PME. Thoracic area bears a pair of orange red band radiating towards lateral margins. Chelicerae yellow with an oblique brown band on the frontal basal one-third,
2.83
x longer than wide. Retromargin has single tooth and promargin with two teeth. Pedipalps, maxillae, labium and sternum yellow.
Eyes.
In three rows of 4, 2, and
2
. Eye diameter (mm): AME (
0.80
)> PLE (
0.40
)> ALE (
0.30
)> PME (
0.15
). Clypeus height
0.25
AME diameter.
Legs.
Yellow with yellowish brown spines and black claw tufts. Spination in tibia I and II
0-7
-
0-2
, tibia III
0-3
-
3
-
2
and tibia IV
0-4
-
3
-
3
. Metatarsus I and II each with four ventral spines, III with
2-4
-
3
-
2
and IV has
2-3
-
3
-
3
. Leg formula
4312
.
Leg measurements (mm):
Leg
|
Femur
|
Patella
|
Tibia
|
Meta- tarsus
|
Tarsus
|
Total
|
1
|
2.45 |
1.50 |
1.85 |
1.30 |
1.00 |
8.10 |
2 3 4
|
2.20 2.50 2.50 |
1.30 1.45 1.15 |
1.50 1.40 1.90 |
1.20 1.80 2.00 |
0.95 1.10 1.30 |
7.15 8.25 8.85 |
Pedipalp
|
1.10 |
0.60 |
0.70 |
- |
1.10 |
3.50 |
Abdomen.
2.2
x longer than wide, yellow medially, laterally and ventrally except for two pairs of orange red longitudinal bands bordered laterally with black bands dominant along posterior one-half. Spinnerets yellow, long and hairy.
Epigynum dome-shaped, partitioned into two J-shaped cells viewed ventrally; gonophores cup-like and well separated from each other. Cleared epigynum has four-coiled copulatory ducts parallel to each other and inner coils converging. Fertilization duct long and horizontal.
MALE
.. total length
7.30 mm
. Carapace
1.36
x longer than wide with a U-shaped white band running from lateral eye margins to thoracic submargins. Chelicerae, pedipalps, and labium dark reddish brown. Dorsum of chelicerae rough with transverse striae. Maxillae reddish brown except yellow apicoinner margin. Sternum brownish yellow, longer than wide. Eye diameter (mm): AME (
0.60
)> PLE=ALE (
0.31
)> PME (
0.11
). Clypeus height
0.3
AME diameter lined with white hairs. Legs with blackish brown dorsum of coxae I and II, femora, tibiae and spines except yellow venter of coxa I and II, entire coxae III and IV, metatarsi and tarsi. Spination in femur
I
4
-
0-2
-
3
and III with
4
-
0-1
-
3
; tibia I
0-6
-
1-2
, II with
0-6
-
3-4
and III and IV with
1-4
-
4
-
4
. Leg formula
3412
. Abdomen
2.77
x longer than broad, grayish brown with a whitish median longitudinal band. Palpal organ with a bulbous tegulum, broad base of sperm duct at
3
o ’clock, apex of cymbium truncated with a deep groove posterior of tip of embolus, and RTA has three apicoinner teeth.
Material Examined.
Holotype
female (coll. no. Dap
32
),
paratypes
: one female (coll. no. Dap
33
), immature (coll. no. Dap
34
) and one male (coll. no. Dap
37
),
CHINA
, Hainan Island, Dapo town, Dapo village,
28
March
2011
, ATBarrion, JLACatindig and SCVillareal.
Diagnostic Features.
Closely resembles
Telamonia festiva
Thorell,
1887
but differs from the latter in (
1
) carapacial and abdominal markings, (
2
) structure of the epigynum, (
3
) subequal femur III & IV and
patella
I& tibia II in the female, (
4
) subequal femur II and IV,
patella
I and metatarsus II,
patella
III and tibia II in male, and (
5
) the serrated tip of RTA.
Etymology.
Patronym, after Dr. Merle Shepard in recognition of his strong interest in biological control of rice and vegetable insect pests.