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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FF7EFEA4FEC4FE8A" bold="true" box="[151,275,330,357]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">Latouchia</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="17034B64252DFFB0FEF3FEA5FE69FE8B" author="Pocock, R. I." box="[282,446,330,357]" pageId="12" pageNumber="312" pagination="207 - 215" refId="ref17505" refString="Pocock, R. I. (1901) On some new trap-door spiders from China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 70 (2), 207 - 215, pl. 21. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1901. tb 08540. x" type="journal article" year="1901">Pocock, 1901</bibRefCitation>
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FF7EFE7CFEC5FE43" bold="true" box="[151,274,402,428]" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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is readily distinguished from
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by the sturdy and stiff embolus of the male palpal organ which has small but distinct modifications (e.g., teeth, curves, keels, twists, etc.) at its tip (
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FJ, 10FJ), by the mono- or bipartite spermathecae lacking a strongly pigmented median part (
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EJ, 11EL), and by the shortened tibia III without a fully developed dorsal saddle-shaped depression and without saddle crescents in females (
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,
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FF2EFDA8FE49FD8E" bold="true" box="[199,414,582,609]" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">Taxonomic status.</emphasis>
Our current knowledge of the genus
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FCD5FDA9FC79FD8E" box="[828,942,583,609]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">Latouchia</emphasis>
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is very poor. As mentioned above for
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FABFFDA9FF1AFD6A" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">Conothele</emphasis>
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, sampling deficiency and a lack of systematic studies are the reason for this lack of knowledge. The
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lists 18
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species
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as valid. Both sexes of eleven species have been described, seven species are only known from females.
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FF2EFD39FEC6FD1E" bold="true" box="[199,273,727,753]" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">Notes.</emphasis>
The taxonomical foundation of the genus
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was recently revised, and the originally designated female
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of the type species,
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FDC6FD15FD71FCFA" box="[559,678,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">L. fossoria</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="17034B64252DFFB0FD44FD15FC90FCFA" author="Pocock, R. I." box="[685,839,763,789]" pageId="12" pageNumber="312" pagination="207 - 215" refId="ref17505" refString="Pocock, R. I. (1901) On some new trap-door spiders from China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 70 (2), 207 - 215, pl. 21. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1901. tb 08540. x" type="journal article" year="1901">Pocock, 1901</bibRefCitation>
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, was re-established and redescribed (
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). That revision was necessary in order to correct a long-standing taxonomical ambiguity about the correct type species of
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,
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being either
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FDA5FCADFD14FCB2" box="[588,707,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">L. fossoria</emphasis>
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or
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FD01FCADFC9CFCB2" box="[744,843,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">L. davidi</emphasis>
(
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)
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. The revision led to the discovery that
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FF7EFC89FEDAFC6E" box="[151,269,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">L. fossoria</emphasis>
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and
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belong to different species groups. Other arguments for the lack of taxonomical consistency in the genus
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is found in the variability of the general structure of the male palp and the structure of tibia III in females. The male palp is distinctly shortened in
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FD1FFC41FCBDFC27" box="[758,874,943,968]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">L. cornuta</emphasis>
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(
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Song
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. 1983
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: fig. 1), relatively unmodified in
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FF7EFC3DFEF1FC02" box="[151,294,979,1005]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">L. stridulans</emphasis>
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(
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: fig. 13), and strongly elongated in
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FCBDFC3DFBC1FC02" box="[852,1046,979,1005]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">L. schwendingeri</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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: fig. 33) and the two new species described below. The female tibia III is short and sub-cylindrical in the
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of
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FB27FC19FA91FBFE" box="[1230,1350,1015,1041]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">L. fossoria</emphasis>
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(
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: fig. 3) and in all
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FDCCFBF5FD40FBDA" box="[549,663,1051,1077]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">Latouchia</emphasis>
species
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thus far described, whereas in the two new species presented below it is proximally narrowed and forming a “demi-saddle” (
<figureCitation id="EBA92A10252DFFB0FCBAFBD1FC4FFBB6" box="[851,920,1087,1113]" captionStart="FIGURES 9" captionStartId="14.[151,264,1280,1304]" captionTargetBox="[156,1432,417,1257]" captionTargetId="figure-138@14.[156,1432,417,1257]" captionTargetPageId="14" captionText="FIGURES 9AJ. Latouchia incerta spec. nov., females (AD, I paratype PS-013; E Surin, prison, 150 m; F paratype PS-010; G paratype PS-012; H paratype PS-011; J Surin, Ramkhamhaeng, 150 m). A Habitus, dorsal. BC Right tibia and patella III (B prolateral, C retrolateral). D Spinnerets, ventral. EJ Variation in the monopartite spermathecae of six specimens (note short, compact racemose structures). Abbreviatons: ds—demi-saddle, ms—macro spigots on medial article of PLS, sf—distal spigot field on PMS." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4927345" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4927345/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">Figs 9</figureCitation>
BC, 11BC). The “demi-saddle” is distinctly reminiscent of the “full-saddle” seen in
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FDBCFB8DFD1FFB92" box="[597,712,1123,1149]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">Conothele</emphasis>
spp.
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(
<figureCitation id="EBA92A10252DFFB0FCE5FB8DFC85FB92" box="[780,850,1122,1149]" captionStart="FIGURES 5" captionStartId="7.[151,264,1387,1411]" captionTargetBox="[152,1434,633,1364]" captionTargetId="figure-246@7.[152,1435,633,1364]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="FIGURES 5AM. Conothele martensi spec. nov., females (AF paratype PS-001A; G paratype PS-001B; H paratype PS- 001D; I Chiang Dao, 400 m; J paratype PS-001C; K Doi Saket, 400 m; L Ban Pong, 300 m; M Doi Suthep, 580 m). A Habitus, dorsal. B Carapace, lateral. CD Right tibia and patella III (C prolateral, D retrolateral; note tibia-saddle and reduced saddlecrescent). E Spinnerets, ventral. FK Variation in the tripartite spermathecae of eight specimens (note twisted medial part and anteriad globular apical part). Abbreviatons: ms—macrospigots on proximal and median article of PLS, rsc—reduced saddlecrescent, sc—saddle-crescent, tw—twisted medial part of spermathecae." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4927337" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/4927337/files/figure.png" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">Figs 5</figureCitation>
CD, 7CD).
</paragraph>
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The remarkable intra-generic diversity observed in
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FCE8FB69FCAFFB4E" box="[769,888,1159,1185]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">L. fossoria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FC6CFB69FC3FFB4E" box="[901,1000,1159,1185]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">L. davidi</emphasis>
(
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)
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and the species described below concerning the morphology of tibia III and of the male palp may lead to a taxonomic split of the genus when more information becomes available (
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).
</paragraph>
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The two new species described below are tentatively placed in
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<emphasis id="41E6EA87252DFFB0FC61FB1DFC2DFAE2" box="[904,1018,1267,1293]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="312">Latouchia</emphasis>
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, awaiting clarification from an ongoing larger systematic, DNA-based study of a more representative sample of ummidiid spider material.
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