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<taxonomicName LSID="04ED1012-F39A-5962-A83E-B43F178036F7" authority="Thorell, 1890" authorityName="Thorell" authorityYear="1890" class="Arachnida" family="Clubionidae" genus="Clubiona" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Clubiona melanosticta" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="melanosticta">Clubiona melanosticta Thorell, 1890</taxonomicName>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 44" captionStartId="F44" captionText="Figure 44. Male palp of Clubiona melanosticta A prolateral view B retrolateral view C bulb, prolateral view D bulb, ventral view E bulb, retrolateral view. Abbreviations: C = conductor; E = embolus; EB = embolar base; RTA = retrolateral tibial apophysis. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (equal for A, B, equal for C-E)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure44" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535453" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figs 44</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 45" captionStartId="F45" captionText="Figure 45. Clubiona melanosticta, epigyne (A-D), male habitus (E, F) and female habitus (G, H) A intact, ventral view B cleared, ventral view C cleared, dorsal view D cleared, dorsal view E dorsal view F lateral view G dorsal view H ventral view. Abbreviations: A = atrium; BS = bursa; CD = copulatory duct; CO = copulatory opening; FD = fertilisation duct; SB = spermathecal base; SH = spermathecal head; SP = spermatheca; SS = spermathecal stalk. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (equal for A-D); 1 mm (equal for E, F, equal for G, H)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure45" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535454" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, 45</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 59" captionStartId="F59" captionText="Figure 59. Clubiona spp. of the C. filicata group, male palp, ventral view A C. melanosticta B C. zhanggureni C C. circulata D C. suthepica. Abbreviations: C = conductor; E = embolus; EB = embolar base; RTA = retrolateral tibial apophysis. Scale bars: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure59" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535468" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, 59A</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 69" captionStartId="F69" captionText="Figure 69. Clubiona spp. of the C. filicata group, male palp, retrolateral view A C. melanosticta B C. zhanggureni C C. circulata D C. suthepica. Abbreviations: C = conductor; E = embolus; RTA = retrolateral tibial apophysis. Scale bars: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure69" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535478" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, 69A</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 78" captionStartId="F78" captionText="Figure 78. Clubiona spp. of the C. trivialis group (A-D) and the C. filicata group (E, F), epigyne, intact, ventral view A C. cheni B C. menglun sp. nov., holotype C C. subasrevida D C. subquebecana E C. banna sp. nov., paratype F C. melanosticta. Abbreviations: A = atrium; CO = copulatory opening. Scale bars: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure78" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535487" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, 78F</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 86" captionStartId="F86" captionText="Figure 86. Clubiona spp. of the C. trivialis group (A-D) and the C. filicata group (E, F), epigyne, cleared, ventral view A C. cheni B C. menglun sp. nov., holotype C C. subasrevida D C. subquebecana E C. banna sp. nov., paratype F C. melanosticta. Abbreviations: A = atrium; CO = copulatory opening. Scale bars: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure86" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535495" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, 86F</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 94" captionStartId="F94" captionText="Figure 94. Clubiona spp. of the C. trivialis group (A-D) and the C. filicata group (E, F), vulva, cleared, dorsal view A C. cheni B C. menglun sp. nov., holotype C C. subasrevida D C. subquebecana E C. banna sp. nov., paratype F C. melanosticta. Abbreviations: BS = bursa; CD = copulatory duct; FD = fertilisation duct; SB = spermathecal base; SH = spermathecal head; SP = spermatheca; SS = spermathecal stalk. Scale bars: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure94" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535503" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, 94F</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thorell" authorityYear="1890" class="Arachnida" family="Clubionidae" genus="Clubiona" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Clubiona melanosticta" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="melanosticta">Clubiona melanosticta</taxonomicName>
Thorell, 1890: 374 (♂);
<bibRefCitation author="Thorell, T" journalOrPublisher="Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B62" refString="Thorell, T, 1895. Descriptive Catalogue of the Spiders of Burma, based upon the Collection Made by Eugene W. Oates and Preserved in the British Museum. London, 406 pp." title="Descriptive Catalogue of the Spiders of Burma, based upon the Collection Made by Eugene W. Oates and Preserved in the British Museum. London, 406 pp." year="1895">Thorell 1895</bibRefCitation>
: 42 (♀);
<bibRefCitation author="Deeleman-Reinhold, CL" journalOrPublisher="Brill, Leiden" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B9" refString="Deeleman-Reinhold, CL, 2001. Forest Spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae). Brill, Leiden" title="Forest Spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae)." year="2001">Deeleman-Reinhold 2001</bibRefCitation>
: 123, figs 51-52 (♂);
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1747.1.2" author="Dankittipakul, P" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="34 - 60" refId="B5" refString="Dankittipakul, P, Singtripop, T, 2008a. Five new species of the spider genus Clubiona Latreille (Araneae: Clubionidae) from Thailand. Zootaxa 1747: 34 - 60, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1747.1.2" title="Five new species of the spider genus Clubiona Latreille (Araneae: Clubionidae) from Thailand." url="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1747.1.2" volume="1747" year="2008 a">Dankittipakul and Singtripop 2008a</bibRefCitation>
: 42, figs 8-10, 52-54 (♂).
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Thorell" authorityYear="1895" class="Arachnida" family="Clubionidae" genus="Clubiona" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Clubiona melanothele" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="melanothele">Clubiona melanothele</taxonomicName>
Thorell, 1895: 42 (♀). Syn. nov.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Material examined.</paragraph>
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<materialsCitation ID-GBIF-Occurrence="3091609302" collectingDate="2007-08-18" collectorName="G. Zheng" country="China" county="Mengla County" elevation="608" latitude="21.903334" location="Menglun Town" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="101.28205" municipality="Xishuangbanna" specimenCount="4" specimenCount-female="3" specimenCount-male="1" stateProvince="Yunnan Province">
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<specimenCount type="female">3♀</specimenCount>
,
<collectingCountry name="China">China</collectingCountry>
:
<collectingRegion country="China" name="Yunnan">Yunnan Province</collectingRegion>
:
<collectingMunicipality>Xishuangbanna</collectingMunicipality>
:
<collectingCounty>Mengla County</collectingCounty>
:
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: XTBG,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hu" authorityYear="1940" baseAuthorityName="Pierre" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Magnoliaceae" genus="Paramichelia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Paramichelia baillonii" order="Magnoliales" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="baillonii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Paramichelia baillonii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Clubionidae" genus="Clubiona" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Clubiona plantation" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="plantation">Clubiona plantation</taxonomicName>
(ca. 20 yr.),
<geoCoordinate degrees="21" direction="north" minutes="54.200" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="21.903334">21°54.200'N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="101" direction="east" minutes="16.923" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="101.28205">101°16.923'E</geoCoordinate>
, ca.
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<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.08" unit="m" value="608.0">608 m</elevation>
</quantity>
,
<collectingDate value="2007-08-18">18.VIII.2007</collectingDate>
,
<collectorName>G. Zheng</collectorName>
leg
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;
<specimenCount type="male">1♂</specimenCount>
(YHCLU0011), XTBG, teak
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Clubionidae" genus="Clubiona" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Clubiona plantation" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="plantation">Clubiona plantation</taxonomicName>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="21" direction="north" minutes="54.117" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="21.90195">21°54.117'N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="101" direction="east" minutes="16.167" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="101.26945">101°16.167'E</geoCoordinate>
, ca.
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.49" unit="m" value="549.0">549 m</quantity>
,
<date value="2018-08-08">8.VIII.2018</date>
, H. Yu et al. leg;
<specimenCount type="female">1♀</specimenCount>
(YHCLU0164), XTBG, 100 acre-feet sample plot (beside a hut),
<geoCoordinate degrees="21" direction="north" minutes="54.117" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="21.90195">21°54.117'N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="101" direction="east" minutes="16.167" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="101.26945">101°16.167'E</geoCoordinate>
, ca.
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.49" unit="m" value="549.0">549 m</quantity>
,
<date value="2018-08-11">11.VIII.2018</date>
, H. Yu et al.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnosis and description.</paragraph>
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See
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. Male palp as in Figs
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 59" captionStartId="F59" captionText="Figure 59. Clubiona spp. of the C. filicata group, male palp, ventral view A C. melanosticta B C. zhanggureni C C. circulata D C. suthepica. Abbreviations: C = conductor; E = embolus; EB = embolar base; RTA = retrolateral tibial apophysis. Scale bars: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure59" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535468" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">59A</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 69" captionStartId="F69" captionText="Figure 69. Clubiona spp. of the C. filicata group, male palp, retrolateral view A C. melanosticta B C. zhanggureni C C. circulata D C. suthepica. Abbreviations: C = conductor; E = embolus; RTA = retrolateral tibial apophysis. Scale bars: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure69" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535478" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">69A</figureCitation>
, epigyne as in Figs
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 78" captionStartId="F78" captionText="Figure 78. Clubiona spp. of the C. trivialis group (A-D) and the C. filicata group (E, F), epigyne, intact, ventral view A C. cheni B C. menglun sp. nov., holotype C C. subasrevida D C. subquebecana E C. banna sp. nov., paratype F C. melanosticta. Abbreviations: A = atrium; CO = copulatory opening. Scale bars: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure78" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535487" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">78F</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 86" captionStartId="F86" captionText="Figure 86. Clubiona spp. of the C. trivialis group (A-D) and the C. filicata group (E, F), epigyne, cleared, ventral view A C. cheni B C. menglun sp. nov., holotype C C. subasrevida D C. subquebecana E C. banna sp. nov., paratype F C. melanosticta. Abbreviations: A = atrium; CO = copulatory opening. Scale bars: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure86" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535495" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">86F</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 94" captionStartId="F94" captionText="Figure 94. Clubiona spp. of the C. trivialis group (A-D) and the C. filicata group (E, F), vulva, cleared, dorsal view A C. cheni B C. menglun sp. nov., holotype C C. subasrevida D C. subquebecana E C. banna sp. nov., paratype F C. melanosticta. Abbreviations: BS = bursa; CD = copulatory duct; FD = fertilisation duct; SB = spermathecal base; SH = spermathecal head; SP = spermatheca; SS = spermathecal stalk. Scale bars: 0.1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure94" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535503" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">94F</figureCitation>
, habitus as in Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 45" captionStartId="F45" captionText="Figure 45. Clubiona melanosticta, epigyne (A-D), male habitus (E, F) and female habitus (G, H) A intact, ventral view B cleared, ventral view C cleared, dorsal view D cleared, dorsal view E dorsal view F lateral view G dorsal view H ventral view. Abbreviations: A = atrium; BS = bursa; CD = copulatory duct; CO = copulatory opening; FD = fertilisation duct; SB = spermathecal base; SH = spermathecal head; SP = spermatheca; SS = spermathecal stalk. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (equal for A-D); 1 mm (equal for E, F, equal for G, H)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure45" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535454" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">45E-H</figureCitation>
.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thorell" authorityYear="1890" class="Arachnida" family="Clubionidae" genus="Clubiona" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Clubiona melanosticta" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="melanosticta">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Clubiona melanosticta</emphasis>
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and
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Clubionidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="C. melanothele" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="melanothele">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C. melanothele</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
were considered separate species for more than 120 years. After examining the holotypes,
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illustrated the two species and suggested that they could be conspecific; however, she made no taxonomic changes at the time. New material has been collected from Xishuangbanna containing both sexes. According to drawings of
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, the males were identified as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C. melanosticta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and the females were identified as
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Clubionidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="C. melanothele" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="melanothele">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C. melanothele</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Based on morphology (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 45" captionStartId="F45" captionText="Figure 45. Clubiona melanosticta, epigyne (A-D), male habitus (E, F) and female habitus (G, H) A intact, ventral view B cleared, ventral view C cleared, dorsal view D cleared, dorsal view E dorsal view F lateral view G dorsal view H ventral view. Abbreviations: A = atrium; BS = bursa; CD = copulatory duct; CO = copulatory opening; FD = fertilisation duct; SB = spermathecal base; SH = spermathecal head; SP = spermatheca; SS = spermathecal stalk. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (equal for A-D); 1 mm (equal for E, F, equal for G, H)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1034.59413.figure45" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/535454" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">45E-H</figureCitation>
) and DNA barcoding data (Table
<tableCitation captionStart="Table 1" captionStartId="T1" captionText="Table 1. Checklist of Clubiona species from Xishuangbanna and voucher specimen information." httpUri="http://table.plazi.org/id/E3A0C067AFEFA56EBBD11FACFB535E1F" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" tableUuid="E3A0C067AFEFA56EBBD11FACFB535E1F">1</tableCitation>
), we matched the females and males together. Therefore, the two names are synonymised, and priority is given to
<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Clubionidae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="C. melanosticta" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="melanosticta">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">C. melanosticta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Thailand (Chiang Mai, Samut Songkram), Indonesia (Sumatra, Krakatau), New Guinea, Myanmar, Laos, China (Yunnan).</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="1" type="most similar species">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Most similar species.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Yu &amp; Li" authorityYear="2019" class="Arachnida" family="Clubionidae" genus="Clubiona" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Clubiona zhanggureni" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="zhanggureni">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Clubiona zhanggureni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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