Linyphiid spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Pakistan and India
Author
Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
text
Revue suisse de Zoologie
2011
2011-09-30
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https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/62276a14-c10f-35bd-b9bb-3ab283d3f6c0/
journal article
10.5962/bhl.part.117817
0035-418X
6312018
Tchatkalophantes baltistan
sp. n.
Figs 86-88
HOLOTYPE
:
1 ♀
(
MSNV
),
PAKISTAN
,
Karakorum
,
Baltistan
,
Shalabot
,
1700 m
a.s.l.
;
15.VIII.1976
; leg.
G. Osella.
FIGS
86-88
Tchatkalophantes baltistan
sp. n.
,
♀
holotype
. (86-88) Epigyne, ventral, dorsal (upside down) and lateral views, respectively.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is taken from the name of the country of origin.
DESCRIPTION: Female. Total length 1.96. Carapace 0.78 long, 0.60 wide, unmodified, pale brown, almost yellow. Chelicerae 0.35 long, unmodified. Legs mostly lost, yellow. Leg I 3.42 (0.93+0.23+0.88+0.83+0.55), FeI 0.90 long. Chaetotaxy: FeI: 0-1-0-0; TiI: 2-1-1-0, TiII: 2-0-1-0, III-IV:?; MtI: 1-0-0-0, II-IV:? TmI 0.25. Abdomen 1.30 long, 0.90 wide, dorsally dark grey, with irregularly arranged small white spots. Epigyne (Figs 86-88): Aperture wide. Proscape with a narrow base, stepwise widening in middle part, bifurcated distally. Posterior median plate triangular.
Male unknown.
TAXONOMIC REMARKS: The new species is similar to the Mongolian
T. hyperauritus
(Loksa, 1965)
and differs by a shallower depression in the distal part of the proscape, as well as by the shape of the posterior median plate: in
T. baltistan
sp. n.
it wider than high vs higher than wide in
T. hyperauritus
.
DISTRIBUTION: Known from the
type
locality only.