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<emphasis bold="true" box="[885,1071,489,513]" italics="true" pageId="32" pageNumber="406">Liphistius lordae</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis box="[831,1002,570,591]" italics="true" pageId="32" pageNumber="406">Liphistius lordae</emphasis>
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, figs 18-19 (description of female).
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, figs 5-10 (description of males and females).
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: fig. 1I (illustration of palpal organ).
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: fig. 1I (reprint of illustration in
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).
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AMNH; female holotype (not examined); Myanmar, Shan State, west of Taunggyi Mountain, 5000 feet; 15.VII.1982; leg. W.C. Sedgwick.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[831,1014,880,903]" pageId="32" pageNumber="406">Other material:</emphasis>
<materialsCitation pageId="32" pageNumber="406">MHNG; 2 males (one collected adult, the other matured 26.IX.1987) and 4 females; outskirts of Taunggyi City, 20°4517”N, 97°0227”E, 1560 m; 22.IX.1987; leg P. Schwendinger. No new material available</materialsCitation>
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Fig. 17.
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, left palps of two males: male n°1 (A-B, D-G), male n°2 (C). (A) Palpal organ, distal view (dorsal side up). (B) Dorsal part of contrategulum and embolus proper, distal and slightly prolateral view. (C) Contrategulum, distal view. (D) Distal part of palpal organ, ventral view; bent and adpressed proximal edge of tegulum indicated by arrow. (E) Palpal organ and distal margin of tarsus, prolateral view. (F) Tibial apophysis, retrolateral and slightly proximal view. (G) Proximal part of tarsus, ventral view. Scale line 1.0 mm.
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Medium-sized spiders with uniformly dark brown body colouration in both sexes, without recognizable annulations on legs and palps. Males distinguished from those of other species in the
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-group by short paracymbium with a proximally protruding, rounded proximal-retrolateral heel (
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) and by proventral contrategular process exceptionally wide, with a widely truncate apex in distal view (
<figureCitation box="[224,367,514,537]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="32.[151,186,1942,1963]" captionTargetBox="[159,1427,1125,1893]" captionTargetId="figure-353@32.[151,1436,1117,1903]" captionTargetPageId="32" captionText="Fig. 17. Liphistius lordae, left palps of two males: male n°1 (A-B, D-G), male n°2 (C). (A) Palpal organ, distal view (dorsal side up). (B) Dorsal part of contrategulum and embolus proper, distal and slightly prolateral view. (C) Contrategulum, distal view. (D) Distal part of palpal organ, ventral view; bent and adpressed proximal edge of tegulum indicated by arrow. (E) Palpal organ and distal margin of tarsus, prolateral view. (F) Tibial apophysis, retrolateral and slightly proximal view. (G) Proximal part of tarsus, ventral view. Scale line 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7761535" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7761535/files/figure.png" pageId="33" pageNumber="407">Fig. 17A, C</figureCitation>
). Females different from those of the same group by having exceptionally wide anterior lobes, no anterolateral processes on poreplate, posterior stalk with a medium-long constriction in its anterior part (
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[831,1126,257,280]" pageId="33" pageNumber="407">Additions to description:</emphasis>
Males with scopulae weak on tarsi I-II, slightly denser on tarsi III-IV, covering distal 2/3 of tarsus I, distal 3/4 of tarsi II-III and distal 4/5 of tarsus IV. Male palps with moderately deep tibial apophysis (depth/length ratio ~ 1.5), only slightly set back from distal margin of tibia, carrying four long, pointed apical megaspines (
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;
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: figs 5-7); paracymbium short, carrying fairly long retrodorsal spicules (distinctly longer than in
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<emphasis box="[1349,1430,513,536]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="407">L. lahu</emphasis>
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,
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and
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<emphasis box="[1114,1192,545,568]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="407">L. tung</emphasis>
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) and a large, arched retrolateral-proximal heel distinctly inclined proximad instead of pointing retrolaterad (
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); cumulus indistinct, carrying a group of about 6 long strong bristles (
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;
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: figs 6-7); subtegulum with indistinct apophysis; tegulum large, its distal margin not elevated, its proximal edge widely arched, finely serrate, distinctly bent and adpressed to membranous area below it (
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;
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: figs 5-6); contrategulum with very wide proventral process ending in a widely truncate apex (
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;
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: fig. 7); prolateral part of distal contrategular edge sharp but not elevated into a pronounced keel (
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); proximal ledge on retrodorsal side of contrategulum pronounced (
<figureCitation captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="32.[151,186,1942,1963]" captionTargetBox="[159,1427,1125,1893]" captionTargetId="figure-353@32.[151,1436,1117,1903]" captionTargetPageId="32" captionText="Fig. 17. Liphistius lordae, left palps of two males: male n°1 (A-B, D-G), male n°2 (C). (A) Palpal organ, distal view (dorsal side up). (B) Dorsal part of contrategulum and embolus proper, distal and slightly prolateral view. (C) Contrategulum, distal view. (D) Distal part of palpal organ, ventral view; bent and adpressed proximal edge of tegulum indicated by arrow. (E) Palpal organ and distal margin of tarsus, prolateral view. (F) Tibial apophysis, retrolateral and slightly proximal view. (G) Proximal part of tarsus, ventral view. Scale line 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7761535" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7761535/files/figure.png" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">Fig. 17A, C, E</figureCitation>
); distal edge of contrategulum very wide and carrying ridges, its dorsal apex very narrowly rounded, almost pointed in distal view (
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A-C); para-embolic plate short, about as long as retroventral edge of embolus complex and not separated from it by an invagination (
<figureCitation box="[396,548,771,794]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="32.[151,186,1942,1963]" captionTargetBox="[159,1427,1125,1893]" captionTargetId="figure-353@32.[151,1436,1117,1903]" captionTargetPageId="32" captionText="Fig. 17. Liphistius lordae, left palps of two males: male n°1 (A-B, D-G), male n°2 (C). (A) Palpal organ, distal view (dorsal side up). (B) Dorsal part of contrategulum and embolus proper, distal and slightly prolateral view. (C) Contrategulum, distal view. (D) Distal part of palpal organ, ventral view; bent and adpressed proximal edge of tegulum indicated by arrow. (E) Palpal organ and distal margin of tarsus, prolateral view. (F) Tibial apophysis, retrolateral and slightly proximal view. (G) Proximal part of tarsus, ventral view. Scale line 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7761535" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7761535/files/figure.png" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">Fig. 17A, D</figureCitation>
); embolus proper narrowly divided, its sclerotised part strengthened by 3 longitudinal ribs reaching apex and carrying denticles distally; membranous embolus part distinctly shorter than sclerotised part, short area at its base strongly pigmented, with numerous longitudinal wrinkles and with fairly straight or widely and strongly asymmetrically angular distal margin (
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). Females with uniformly dark legs and palps without annulations; vulval plates (
<figureCitation box="[479,572,1060,1083]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="33.[151,186,1998,2019]" captionTargetBox="[154,1432,751,1943]" captionTargetId="figure-212@33.[151,1436,748,1947]" captionTargetPageId="33" captionText="Fig. 18. Liphistius lordae, vulval plates of four females; dorsal view (A, C, E, G) and ventral view (B, D, F, H); all taken from exuviae. (A-B) Female n°1. (C-D) Female n°2. (E-F) Female n°3. (G-H) Female n°4; note pathologically enlarged vesicle on left side of poreplate. Scale lines 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7761539" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7761539/files/figure.png" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">Fig. 18</figureCitation>
;
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: figs 8-10) with several hairs on lateral folds, one female even with a single hair on posterior stalk (
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); poreplate wider than long, anteriorly wider than posteriorly, with a pair of very wide lobes on anterior margin, without anterolateral processes, posterior margins not bulged; CDO fairly small, quite variable in shape; receptacular cluster racemose, much longer than wide, reaching or almost reaching anterior margin of poreplate; posterior stalk clearly narrower than poreplate, axe-blade-shaped, with distinct anterior constriction, posterior margin wide and more or less strongly arched.
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Fig. 18.
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<emphasis box="[237,398,1998,2019]" italics="true" pageId="33" pageNumber="407">Liphistius lordae</emphasis>
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, vulval plates of four females; dorsal view (A, C, E, G) and ventral view (B, D, F, H); all taken from exuviae. (A-B) Female n°1. (C-D) Female n°2. (E-F) Female n°3. (G-H) Female n°4; note pathologically enlarged vesicle on left side of poreplate. Scale lines 1.0 mm.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,269,1493,1516]" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">Variation:</emphasis>
For carapace measurements and prefoveal setae counts see
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. All specimens examined have well-developed AME. Variation in the shape of the proventral contrategular process is shown in
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, variation in the shape of the vulval plates in
<figureCitation box="[624,702,1621,1644]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="33.[151,186,1998,2019]" captionTargetBox="[154,1432,751,1943]" captionTargetId="figure-212@33.[151,1436,748,1947]" captionTargetPageId="33" captionText="Fig. 18. Liphistius lordae, vulval plates of four females; dorsal view (A, C, E, G) and ventral view (B, D, F, H); all taken from exuviae. (A-B) Female n°1. (C-D) Female n°2. (E-F) Female n°3. (G-H) Female n°4; note pathologically enlarged vesicle on left side of poreplate. Scale lines 1.0 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7761539" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7761539/files/figure.png" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">Fig. 18</figureCitation>
.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,315,1668,1691]" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">Relationships:</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[326,511,1668,1691]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">Liphistius lordae</emphasis>
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possesses some quite unusual characters in the male and female copulatory organs that make it difficult to establish its relationships on a morphological basis. It clearly belongs to the
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<emphasis box="[151,272,1797,1820]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">birmanicus</emphasis>
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-group and it is apparently not very closely related to the geographically close
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<emphasis box="[554,660,1829,1852]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">Liphistius</emphasis>
sp.
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that occurs near Kalaw or to
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<emphasis box="[421,546,1861,1884]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">L. pinlaung</emphasis>
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. Within the
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">birmanicus</emphasis>
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-group a very wide distal contrategular margin is otherwise only found in
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<emphasis box="[425,575,1925,1948]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">L. pyinoolwin</emphasis>
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(
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A-C cf.
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A-B), and both also share an adpressed posterior tegular edge, which are not very strong indications that both are more closely related to each other than each of them with any other known species. However, we believe that unknown species exist that are more closely related to either of these two species.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[831,980,336,359]" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">Distribution:</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Platnick &amp; Sedgwick" authorityYear="1984" box="[988,1171,336,359]" class="Arachnida" family="Liphistiidae" genus="Liphistius" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="34" pageNumber="408" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lordae">
<emphasis box="[988,1171,336,359]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="408">Liphistius lordae</emphasis>
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is known only from the type locality in the mountains of the Shan State (
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).
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