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T y p e s p e c i e s.
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Diagnosis. The new genus differs from all
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by having eyes arranged in 3 rows (
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).
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<emphasis box="[453,565,351,377]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Nediphya</emphasis>
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is most similar to
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(
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) by having heterogeneous eyes, a prolateral row of stiff setae on the tibia-tarsus of legs III, and a strong, large dorsal claw-like branch of the paracymbium. New genus can be distinguished by small anterior lateral eyes, not spaced with posterior eyes, low clypeus (less than diameter of AME),
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. ALE equal in size to PLE and PME, lateral eyes widely spaced, clypeus higher than diameter of AME in
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. In addition, the cephalic part of the carapace in
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is unmodified (
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) (slanted in
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<emphasis box="[684,769,543,569]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Diphya</emphasis>
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(
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)). The two genera can also be distinguished by the shape of the epiandrous plate and the number of fusules (only 2 pairs of fusules located in 2 pits in
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<emphasis box="[535,647,607,633]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Nediphya</emphasis>
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(
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)
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. about 2 dozen arranged in a transverse row in
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<emphasis box="[390,475,639,665]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Diphya</emphasis>
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(cf. Marusik &amp; Omelko, 2017)). Males of
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<emphasis box="[981,1093,639,665]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Nediphya</emphasis>
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can be recognized by having a strongly reduced ventral branch of the paracymbium (large and bilobed in
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<emphasis box="[301,386,703,729]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Diphya</emphasis>
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,
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) and the presence of a cymbial lobe (lacking in
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<emphasis box="[1038,1123,703,729]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Diphya</emphasis>
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(
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)), a filamentous and gradually rounded embolus (broad and twisted in
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<emphasis box="[1029,1114,735,761]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Diphya</emphasis>
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). Females of two genera can be easily distinguished by the epigyne weakly sclerotized in new genus and well sclerotized in
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).
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D e s c r i p t i o n. Small, male 2.50, females 2.423.10; carapace 1.14 long in male,
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females. Carapace pear-shaped, rather high (
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,
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), with pattern composed of lateral or sublateral dark bands. Eyes in 3 rows (
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), AME in first row, ALE and PME in second, and PLE in third. ALE and AME subequal in size, ALE 1.52 times smaller than PME, clypeus small, less than 1 diameter of AME. Sternum shield like (
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,
<figureCitation box="[1050,1079,959,986]" captionStart="Figs 1625" captionStartId="6.[166,205,1749,1771]" captionTargetBox="[203,1196,881,1726]" captionTargetId="figure-189@6.[203,1197,881,1726]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Figs 1625. Male somatic characters of Nediphya lehtineni sp. n.: 1617 — prosoma, frontal, and fronto-dorsal; 18 — metatarsus I showing stiff setae; 19, 21 — prosoma, ventral, both cheliceral claws broken; 20 — coxa IV, ventral; 22 — abdomen, ventral showing unmodified book lung operculae; 23 — spinnerets, caudal-ventral; 24 — tarsus II, showing pseudosegmentation (Ps); 25 — epiandrous fusules." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6454195" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6454195/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">19</figureCitation>
) with slightly darkened margins. Chelicerae not enlarged, with 3 prolateral and 23 retrolateral teeth; distal teeth (
<emphasis box="[248,277,1024,1049]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Dt</emphasis>
) large (
<figureCitation box="[365,440,1023,1050]" captionStart="Figs 1625" captionStartId="6.[166,205,1749,1771]" captionTargetBox="[203,1196,881,1726]" captionTargetId="figure-189@6.[203,1197,881,1726]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Figs 1625. Male somatic characters of Nediphya lehtineni sp. n.: 1617 — prosoma, frontal, and fronto-dorsal; 18 — metatarsus I showing stiff setae; 19, 21 — prosoma, ventral, both cheliceral claws broken; 20 — coxa IV, ventral; 22 — abdomen, ventral showing unmodified book lung operculae; 23 — spinnerets, caudal-ventral; 24 — tarsus II, showing pseudosegmentation (Ps); 25 — epiandrous fusules." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6454195" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6454195/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">fig. 21</figureCitation>
). Legs with annulations, tibia-tarsus of legs I and II with rows of stiff subdecumbent setae (
<figureCitation box="[420,493,1055,1082]" captionStart="Figs 1625" captionStartId="6.[166,205,1749,1771]" captionTargetBox="[203,1196,881,1726]" captionTargetId="figure-189@6.[203,1197,881,1726]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Figs 1625. Male somatic characters of Nediphya lehtineni sp. n.: 1617 — prosoma, frontal, and fronto-dorsal; 18 — metatarsus I showing stiff setae; 19, 21 — prosoma, ventral, both cheliceral claws broken; 20 — coxa IV, ventral; 22 — abdomen, ventral showing unmodified book lung operculae; 23 — spinnerets, caudal-ventral; 24 — tarsus II, showing pseudosegmentation (Ps); 25 — epiandrous fusules." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6454195" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6454195/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">fig. 18</figureCitation>
) forming a kind of “catching basket” (
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). Few macrosetae, 05 on each segment. Tarsi pseudosegmented (
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). Coxae IV in male unmodified, lacking stridulatory teeth or ridges. Female palp with straight, untoothed claw (
<figureCitation box="[1017,1094,1119,1146]" captionStart="Figs 915" captionStartId="5.[170,209,1800,1822]" captionTargetBox="[195,1204,801,1771]" captionTargetId="figure-218@5.[189,1210,801,1772]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="Figs 915. Somatic characters of Diphya macrophthalma (911), Nediphya lehtineni sp. n. (1213) and N. hippai sp. n. (1415)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6454193" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6454193/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">fig. 12</figureCitation>
). Abdomen patterned, pattern partly composed of white guanine spots in 2 species. Book lung opercula unmodified, lacking stridulatory ridges. Male spinnerets as in
<figureCitation box="[884,956,1183,1210]" captionStart="Figs 1625" captionStartId="6.[166,205,1749,1771]" captionTargetBox="[203,1196,881,1726]" captionTargetId="figure-189@6.[203,1197,881,1726]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Figs 1625. Male somatic characters of Nediphya lehtineni sp. n.: 1617 — prosoma, frontal, and fronto-dorsal; 18 — metatarsus I showing stiff setae; 19, 21 — prosoma, ventral, both cheliceral claws broken; 20 — coxa IV, ventral; 22 — abdomen, ventral showing unmodified book lung operculae; 23 — spinnerets, caudal-ventral; 24 — tarsus II, showing pseudosegmentation (Ps); 25 — epiandrous fusules." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6454195" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6454195/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">fig. 23</figureCitation>
. Colulus well developed with 4 setae (
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). Epiandrous plate with 2 pits, each pit with pair of fusules.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="1.[174,1233,319,1850]" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">
Copulatory organs. Male palp with long femur (6 times longer than wide and about 1.4 times longer than patella + tibia); patella and tibia unmodified; cymbium almost round with retrolateral hollow (
<emphasis box="[468,501,1311,1337]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Rh</emphasis>
), small antero-retrolateral lobe (
<emphasis box="[884,910,1311,1337]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Cl</emphasis>
) connected by shallow fold (
<emphasis box="[184,211,1343,1369]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Cf</emphasis>
) to paracymbium; paracymbium composed of small lateral branch (
<emphasis box="[1006,1030,1343,1369]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Pl</emphasis>
) and large dorsal claw-like branch (
<emphasis box="[391,422,1375,1401]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Pd</emphasis>
); bulb round in ventral view, hemispherical in lateral view, ventral side of bulb flat, almost entirely covered with broad ribbon-like semitransparent conductor (
<emphasis box="[184,216,1440,1466]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Co</emphasis>
); tip of conductor with 3 processes (rounded retrolateral (
<emphasis box="[978,1007,1440,1466]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Cr</emphasis>
), sharply pointed prolateral (
<emphasis box="[309,342,1472,1498]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Cp</emphasis>
) and weakly sclerotized median (
<emphasis box="[755,797,1472,1498]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Cm</emphasis>
)); dorso-anterior part of conductor with furrow (
<emphasis box="[336,363,1504,1529]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Fc</emphasis>
); embolus (
<emphasis box="[508,547,1504,1529]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Em</emphasis>
) very long, filamentous, making 1.5 loops (
<emphasis box="[1075,1101,1504,1529]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">ca</emphasis>
540°), and entirely enclosed by the conductors fold.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="1.[174,1233,319,1850]" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">
Epigyne weakly sclerotized, with distinct median plate (
<emphasis box="[926,966,1568,1593]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Mp</emphasis>
), copulatory opening indistinct; copulatory ducts (
<emphasis box="[530,564,1599,1625]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Cd</emphasis>
) visible through integument, subparallel; 13 pairs of weakly sclerotized receptacles.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="1.[174,1233,319,1850]" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">
R e l a t i o n s h i p s. Although the modified eyes, spination of legs I and II with peculiar stiff setae forming a catching basket, lack of sexual dimorphism, small size and unmodified chelicera in
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<emphasis box="[329,441,1727,1753]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Nediphya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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are similar to these in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Nicolet" authorityYear="1849" box="[844,929,1727,1753]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Diphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="1" pageNumber="204" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[844,929,1727,1753]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Diphya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the morphology of the copulatory organs is significantly different between the two genera.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="1.[174,1233,319,1850]" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">
Highly heterogeneous eyes are also known in
<taxonomicName authority="Dimitrov et Hormiga, 2011" authorityName="Dimitrov et Hormiga" authorityYear="2011" box="[764,1228,1791,1818]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Pinkfloydia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="1" pageNumber="204" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[764,897,1791,1817]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="204">Pinkfloydia</emphasis>
Dimitrov et Hormiga, 2011
</taxonomicName>
, but in that genus only the PME are strongly enlarged and larger than the lateral eyes.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="2.[166,1225,175,1194]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">
The epiandrous plate in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Marusik &amp; Omelko" authorityYear="2017" box="[538,655,175,201]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nediphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[538,655,175,201]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nediphya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation box="[676,761,175,202]" captionStart="Figs 1625" captionStartId="6.[166,205,1749,1771]" captionTargetBox="[203,1196,881,1726]" captionTargetId="figure-189@6.[203,1197,881,1726]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="Figs 1625. Male somatic characters of Nediphya lehtineni sp. n.: 1617 — prosoma, frontal, and fronto-dorsal; 18 — metatarsus I showing stiff setae; 19, 21 — prosoma, ventral, both cheliceral claws broken; 20 — coxa IV, ventral; 22 — abdomen, ventral showing unmodified book lung operculae; 23 — spinnerets, caudal-ventral; 24 — tarsus II, showing pseudosegmentation (Ps); 25 — epiandrous fusules." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6454195" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6454195/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">fig. 25</figureCitation>
) is similar to that in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1908" box="[1045,1173,176,201]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nanometa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[1045,1173,176,201]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nanometa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(cf. fig. 87E in
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and
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Hentz" baseAuthorityYear="1850" box="[807,1122,207,233]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Dolichognatha" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pentagona">
<emphasis box="[807,1122,207,233]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Dolichognatha pentagona</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Hentz, 1850 (cf.
<figureCitation box="[292,395,239,266]" captionStart="Figs 2633" captionStartId="7.[174,213,1796,1818]" captionTargetBox="[222,1182,565,1769]" captionTargetId="figure-160@7.[208,1182,562,1774]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="Figs 2633. Male palp of Nediphya lehtineni sp. n. (2631) and Diphya macrophthalma (3233): 26, 33 — retrolateral; 27 —ventral; 28 — dorsal; 29 —posterio-dorsal; 30, 32 — prolateral; 31 — anterior." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6454197" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6454197/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">fig. 31G</figureCitation>
in
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with 2 isolated pit each bearing 4 fusules.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="2.[166,1225,175,1194]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">
To date, prolateral rows of stiff setae on tibia-metatarsi of legs I and II are well documented in tetragnathids only in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Nicolet" authorityYear="1849" box="[609,694,335,361]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Diphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[609,694,335,361]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Diphya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Tanikawa, 1995; Marusik, 2017, Marusik et al., 2017), but can also be found in
<taxonomicName authority="(Spassky, 1932)" baseAuthorityName="Spassky" baseAuthorityYear="1932" box="[599,1022,367,394]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Metellina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="orientalis">
<emphasis box="[599,828,367,393]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Metellina orientalis</emphasis>
(Spassky, 1932)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authority="(Bakhvalov, 1974)" baseAuthorityName="Bakhvalov" baseAuthorityYear="1974" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Metellina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kirgisica">
<emphasis box="[1086,1224,367,393]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">M. kirgisica</emphasis>
(Bakhvalov, 1974)
</taxonomicName>
(personal data) and in an unidentified genus and species from
<collectingCountry name="Papua New Guinea" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Papua New Guinea</collectingCountry>
(
<figureCitation box="[327,453,431,458]" captionStart="Figs 5254" captionStartId="11.[185,224,553,575]" captionTargetBox="[212,1231,174,532]" captionTargetId="figure-415@11.[212,1233,174,532]" captionTargetPageId="11" captionText="Figs 5254. Habitus of unknown Tetragnathidae female:" figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6454203" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6454203/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">figs 5254</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="2.[166,1225,175,1194]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">
The bulb in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Marusik &amp; Omelko" authorityYear="2017" box="[377,494,463,489]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nediphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[377,494,463,489]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nediphya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is very similar to those illustrated of “
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thorell" authorityYear="1890" box="[987,1106,464,490]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Orsinome" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[987,1106,464,490]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Orsinome</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis box="[1129,1224,464,489]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">sarasini</emphasis>
Berland, 1924,
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sp. and
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<emphasis box="[635,763,496,521]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nanometa</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
illustrated by (
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, as well as “
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<emphasis box="[538,657,528,554]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Orsinome</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName authority="(Urquhart, 1888)" baseAuthorityName="Urquhart" baseAuthorityYear="1888" box="[681,1035,527,554]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Orsiella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lagenifera">
<emphasis box="[681,802,527,553]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">lagenifera</emphasis>
(Urquhart, 1888)
</taxonomicName>
. Those species are from either
<collectingCountry box="[365,481,559,586]" name="Australia" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Australia</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry box="[495,659,559,586]" name="New Zealand" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">New Zealand</collectingCountry>
or Tasmania and all have a broad conductor hiding the tegulum as in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Marusik &amp; Omelko" authorityYear="2017" box="[475,708,591,617]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nediphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lehtineni">
<emphasis box="[475,708,591,617]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nediphya lehtineni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and a filamentous embolus hidden partly or entirely by the fold of the conductor. In addition, those taxa all possess an anterolateral lobe of the cymbium (= CEMP or cymbial ectomedian process
<emphasis box="[1044,1110,656,681]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">sensu</emphasis>
Álvarez- Padilla and Hormiga (2011)) and a cymbial fold between the lobe and the dorsal branch of the paracymbium (= CEBP or cymbial ectobasal process
<emphasis box="[905,971,720,745]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">sensu</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Alvarez-Padilla, F. &amp; Hormiga, G." pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="713 - 879" refId="ref5540" refString="Alvarez-Padilla, F., Hormiga, G. 2011. Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 62, 713 - 879." type="journal article" year="2011">Álvarez-Padilla and Hormiga (2011))</bibRefCitation>
. In addition to the similar bulb and cymbium morphology in the four species, they each have a well-developed ventral branch of the paracymbium bearing few setae; in
<taxonomicName authority="Marusik &amp; Omelko, 2017" authorityName="Marusik &amp; Omelko" authorityYear="2017" box="[327,561,815,841]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nediphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lehtineni" status="sp. n.">
<emphasis box="[327,561,815,841]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nediphya lehtineni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[570,635,815,842]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
the ventral branch of paracymbium is strongly reduced and lacks setae (
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). None of these four species has a modified eye pattern.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="2.[166,1225,175,1194]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">
Females of “
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thorell" authorityYear="1890" box="[392,516,912,938]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Orsinome" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[392,516,912,938]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Orsinome</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis box="[544,645,912,937]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">sarasini</emphasis>
and
<taxonomicName box="[722,906,911,938]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nanometa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis box="[722,855,912,937]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nanometa</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
illustrated by Álvarez- Padilla and Hormiga (2011) have epigynes rather similar to that of
<taxonomicName authority="Marusik &amp; Omelko, 2017" authorityName="Marusik &amp; Omelko" authorityYear="2017" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nediphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lehtineni" status="sp. n.">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nediphya lehtineni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[293,367,975,1002]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
The complicated morphology of the copulatory organs reflects the phylogenetic relationships between taxa much better than does somatic morphology and thus we consider that
<taxonomicName authority="Marusik &amp; Omelko, 2017" authorityName="Marusik &amp; Omelko" authorityYear="2017" box="[679,801,1039,1065]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nediphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. n.">
<emphasis box="[679,801,1039,1065]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nediphya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[811,898,1039,1066]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" rank="genus">gen. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
belongs to
<taxonomicName authority="Forster &amp; Forster, 1999 sensu Alvarez-Padilla &amp; Hormiga (2011)" authorityName="Forster &amp; Forster, 1999 sensu Alvarez-Padilla &amp; Hormiga" authorityYear="2011" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Nanometinae">
Nanometinae
<bibRefCitation author="Forster, R. R. &amp; Forster, L." box="[166,478,1071,1098]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="1 - 270" refId="ref5606" refString="Forster, R. R., Forster, L. 1999. Spiders of New Zealand and their Worldwide Kin. Otago University Press, vii + 1 - 270." type="book chapter" year="1999">Forster &amp; Forster, 1999</bibRefCitation>
sensu
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</taxonomicName>
.
<taxonomicName authorityName="Forster &amp; Forster, 1999 sensu Alvarez-Padilla &amp; Hormiga" authorityYear="2011" box="[1050,1224,1071,1098]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Nanometinae">Nanometinae</taxonomicName>
is currently composed of the monotypic genera
<taxonomicName authority="Simon, 1908" authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1908" box="[807,1114,1103,1130]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nanometa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[807,940,1104,1129]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nanometa</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Simon, E." box="[951,1114,1103,1130]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="359 - 446" refId="ref5829" refString="Simon, E. 1908. Araneae. 1 re partie. In: Michaelsen, W., Hartmeyer, R., eds. Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens. Jena, 1 (12), 359 - 446." type="journal article" year="1908">Simon, 1908</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(known from the female only (WSC 2017)) and
<taxonomicName authority="Dimitrov et Hormiga, 2011" authorityName="Dimitrov et Hormiga" authorityYear="2011" box="[702,1223,1135,1162]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Pinkfloydia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[702,850,1135,1161]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Pinkfloydia</emphasis>
Dimitrov et Hormiga, 2011
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Alvarez-Padilla, F. &amp; Hormiga, G." box="[175,631,1167,1194]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="713 - 879" refId="ref5540" refString="Alvarez-Padilla, F., Hormiga, G. 2011. Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 62, 713 - 879." type="journal article" year="2011">Álvarez-Padilla &amp; Hormiga (2011)</bibRefCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="2.[166,1225,1234,1837]" box="[166,720,1234,1261]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">
Status of
<taxonomicName authority="Forster &amp; Forster, 1999" authorityName="Forster &amp; Forster" authorityYear="1999" box="[274,720,1234,1261]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Nanometinae">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[274,441,1234,1260]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nanometinae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Forster, R. R. &amp; Forster, L." box="[447,720,1234,1261]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="1 - 270" refId="ref5606" refString="Forster, R. R., Forster, L. 1999. Spiders of New Zealand and their Worldwide Kin. Otago University Press, vii + 1 - 270." type="book chapter" year="1999">Forster &amp; Forster, 1999</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="2.[166,1225,1234,1837]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">
<bibRefCitation author="Forster, R. R. &amp; Forster, L." box="[219,523,1266,1293]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="1 - 270" refId="ref5606" refString="Forster, R. R., Forster, L. 1999. Spiders of New Zealand and their Worldwide Kin. Otago University Press, vii + 1 - 270." type="book chapter" year="1999">Forster &amp; Forster (1999)</bibRefCitation>
considered
<taxonomicName authorityName="Forster &amp; Forster" authorityYear="1999" box="[677,837,1266,1293]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Nanometinae">Nanometinae</taxonomicName>
to be composed of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1908" box="[1095,1218,1267,1292]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nanometa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[1095,1218,1267,1292]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nanometa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authority="(Urquhart, 1888)" baseAuthorityName="Urquhart" baseAuthorityYear="1888" box="[166,600,1298,1325]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Orsiella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lagenifera">
<emphasis box="[166,382,1298,1324]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Orsiella lagenifera</emphasis>
(Urquhart, 1888)
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis box="[622,712,1298,1324]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Orsiella</emphasis>
is a
<emphasis box="[779,955,1298,1324]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">nomen nudum</emphasis>
and currently species misplaced in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thorell" authorityYear="1890" box="[323,437,1331,1357]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Orsinome" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[323,437,1331,1357]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Orsinome</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and
<taxonomicName authority="Strand, 1912" authorityName="Strand" authorityYear="1912" box="[505,790,1330,1357]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Eryciniolia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[505,631,1330,1356]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Eryciniolia</emphasis>
Strand, 1912
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation author="Alvarez-Padilla, F. &amp; Hormiga, G." box="[801,1224,1330,1357]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="713 - 879" refId="ref5540" refString="Alvarez-Padilla, F., Hormiga, G. 2011. Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 62, 713 - 879." type="journal article" year="2011">Álvarez-Padilla &amp; Hormigas (2011)</bibRefCitation>
concept of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Forster &amp; Forster" authorityYear="1999" box="[308,468,1362,1389]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Nanometinae">Nanometinae</taxonomicName>
included only
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1908" box="[661,784,1363,1388]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nanometa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[661,784,1363,1388]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nanometa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Dimitrov et Hormiga" authorityYear="2011" box="[804,937,1362,1388]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Pinkfloydia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[804,937,1362,1388]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Pinkfloydia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, misplaced “
<taxonomicName authorityName="Thorell" authorityYear="1890" box="[1099,1213,1363,1389]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Orsinome" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[1099,1213,1363,1389]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Orsinome</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis box="[166,257,1395,1420]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">sarasini</emphasis>
, and a single unplaced “
<taxonomicName authorityName="Forster &amp; Forster" authorityYear="1999" box="[563,725,1394,1421]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Nanometinae">Nanometinae</taxonomicName>
sp.” It is unclear how
<bibRefCitation author="Alvarez-Padilla, F. &amp; Hormiga, G." pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="713 - 879" refId="ref5540" refString="Alvarez-Padilla, F., Hormiga, G. 2011. Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 62, 713 - 879." type="journal article" year="2011">Álvarez-Padilla &amp; Hormiga (2011)</bibRefCitation>
recognized “
<taxonomicName box="[518,683,1426,1453]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nanometa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis box="[518,641,1427,1452]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nanometa</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
” or “
<taxonomicName authorityName="Forster &amp; Forster" authorityYear="1999" box="[749,911,1426,1453]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Nanometinae">Nanometinae</taxonomicName>
sp.” without studying the
<typeStatus box="[166,216,1458,1485]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">type</typeStatus>
species,
<taxonomicName authority="Simon, 1908" authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1908" box="[314,579,1458,1485]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nanometa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gentilis">
<emphasis box="[314,428,1458,1484]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">N. gentilis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="Simon, E." box="[432,579,1458,1485]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="359 - 446" refId="ref5829" refString="Simon, E. 1908. Araneae. 1 re partie. In: Michaelsen, W., Hartmeyer, R., eds. Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens. Jena, 1 (12), 359 - 446." type="journal article" year="1908">Simon, 1908</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. The
<typeStatus box="[635,685,1458,1485]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">type</typeStatus>
species is known only by the verbal description of
<bibRefCitation author="Simon, E." box="[195,354,1490,1517]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="359 - 446" refId="ref5829" refString="Simon, E. 1908. Araneae. 1 re partie. In: Michaelsen, W., Hartmeyer, R., eds. Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens. Jena, 1 (12), 359 - 446." type="journal article" year="1908">Simon (1908)</bibRefCitation>
from
<collectingRegion box="[424,636,1490,1517]" inferredBySuffix="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Western Australia</collectingRegion>
and figures in
<bibRefCitation author="Dalmas, R. de" box="[806,977,1490,1517]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="317 - 430" refId="ref5580" refString="Dalmas, R. de. 1917. Araignees de Nouvelle-Zelande. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 86, 317 - 430." type="journal article" year="1917">Dalmas (1917)</bibRefCitation>
of the eye region and epigyne of a
<collectingCountry box="[313,469,1522,1549]" name="New Zealand" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">New Zealand</collectingCountry>
specimen (WSC 2017).
<bibRefCitation author="Dalmas, R. de" box="[751,923,1522,1549]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="317 - 430" refId="ref5580" refString="Dalmas, R. de. 1917. Araignees de Nouvelle-Zelande. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 86, 317 - 430." type="journal article" year="1917">Dalmas (1917)</bibRefCitation>
studied Simons
<typeStatus box="[1124,1174,1522,1549]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">type</typeStatus>
and mentioned some differences between specimens from
<collectingCountry box="[826,986,1554,1581]" name="New Zealand" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">New Zealand</collectingCountry>
and
<collectingCountry box="[1052,1163,1554,1581]" name="Australia" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Australia</collectingCountry>
. It is worth noting that
<bibRefCitation author="Roewer, C. F." box="[386,631,1586,1613]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="1 - 1040" refId="ref5805" refString="Roewer, C. F. 1942. Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940. Bremen, 1, 1 - 1040." type="journal article" year="1942">Roewer (1942: 1013)</bibRefCitation>
erroneously indicated that
<taxonomicName authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1908" box="[960,1173,1586,1612]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nanometa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="gentilis">
<emphasis box="[960,1173,1586,1612]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nanometa gentilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was described based on the female and known only from
<collectingRegion box="[804,1022,1618,1645]" country="Australia" name="Western Australia" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Western Australia</collectingRegion>
, although
<bibRefCitation author="Simon, E." pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="359 - 446" refId="ref5829" refString="Simon, E. 1908. Araneae. 1 re partie. In: Michaelsen, W., Hartmeyer, R., eds. Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens. Jena, 1 (12), 359 - 446." type="journal article" year="1908">Simon (1908)</bibRefCitation>
described both sexes and
<bibRefCitation author="Dalmas, R. de" box="[563,738,1650,1677]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="317 - 430" refId="ref5580" refString="Dalmas, R. de. 1917. Araignees de Nouvelle-Zelande. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 86, 317 - 430." type="journal article" year="1917">Dalmas (1917)</bibRefCitation>
reported specimens from
<collectingCountry box="[1059,1221,1650,1677]" name="New Zealand" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">New Zealand</collectingCountry>
. These errors are repeated in
<bibRefCitation author="Platnick, N. I." box="[512,685,1682,1709]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" refId="ref5759" refString="Platnick, N. I. 2000 - 2014. The world spider catalog, versions 1.0 - 15.0. American Museum of Natural History, online at http: // research. amnh. org / entomology / spiders / catalog / index. html" type="url" year="2000">Platnick (2000</bibRefCitation>
2014) and the
<bibRefCitation author="World Spider Catalog" box="[876,1224,1682,1709]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" refId="ref5870" refString="World Spider Catalog. 2017. Natural History Museum Bern, version 18.0. Available from: http: // wsc. nmbe. ch (accessed on 28 March 2017)." type="url" year="2017">World Spider Catalog (2017)</bibRefCitation>
which are based on Roewers incorrect data.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="2.[166,1225,1234,1837]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">
The morphology of the copulatory organs of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Dimitrov et Hormiga" authorityYear="2011" box="[728,861,1746,1772]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Pinkfloydia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[728,861,1746,1772]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Pinkfloydia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Strand" authorityYear="1912" box="[872,998,1746,1772]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Eryciniolia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[872,998,1746,1772]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Eryciniolia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and two misplaced
<taxonomicName box="[166,372,1778,1805]" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">
<emphasis box="[166,280,1779,1805]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Orsinome</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
differ considerably from
<taxonomicName authority="sensu Alvarez-Padilla &amp; Hormiga (2011)" authorityName="sensu Alvarez-Padilla &amp; Hormiga" authorityYear="2011" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nanometa" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[686,809,1779,1804]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="205">Nanometa</emphasis>
sensu
<bibRefCitation author="Alvarez-Padilla, F. &amp; Hormiga, G." pageId="2" pageNumber="205" pagination="713 - 879" refId="ref5540" refString="Alvarez-Padilla, F., Hormiga, G. 2011. Morphological and phylogenetic atlas of the orb-weaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 62, 713 - 879." type="journal article" year="2011">Álvarez-Padilla &amp; Hormiga (2011)</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and, to our mind, cannot be considered in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Forster &amp; Forster" authorityYear="1999" box="[751,915,1810,1837]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="2" pageNumber="205" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Nanometinae">Nanometinae</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[174,1232,173,424]" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">
Distinguishing species of
<taxonomicName authority="Marusik &amp; Omelko, 2017" authorityName="Marusik &amp; Omelko" authorityYear="2017" box="[588,717,173,199]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nediphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus" status="gen. n.">
<emphasis box="[588,717,173,199]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">Nediphya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[728,821,173,200]" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" rank="genus">gen. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
Some species can be recognized by carapace pattern (
<figureCitation box="[382,530,205,232]" captionStart="Figs 18" captionStartId="3.[174,213,1752,1774]" captionTargetBox="[194,1214,617,1746]" captionTargetId="figure-68@3.[193,1214,614,1746]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="Figs 18. Habitus of Nediphya lehtineni sp. n. (15), N. lyleae sp. n. (6), N. hippai sp. n. (7) and N. padillai sp. n. (8): 1 —male habitus, dorsal; 2, 68 — female habitus, dorsal; 3 — female prosoma, ventral; 4 — female prosoma, dorsal; 5 a, b — female leg I, a —dorsal and b —prolateral." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6454191" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6454191/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">figs 2, 4, 68</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[541,617,205,232]" captionStart="Figs 915" captionStartId="5.[170,209,1800,1822]" captionTargetBox="[195,1204,801,1771]" captionTargetId="figure-218@5.[189,1210,801,1772]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="Figs 915. Somatic characters of Diphya macrophthalma (911), Nediphya lehtineni sp. n. (1213) and N. hippai sp. n. (1415)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6454193" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6454193/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">1215</figureCitation>
). All species differ by spination and shape of epigyne (see diagnoses of the individual species).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="3.[174,1232,173,424]" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">
Composition:
<taxonomicName authority="Marusik &amp; Omelko, 2017" authorityName="Marusik &amp; Omelko" authorityYear="2017" box="[395,614,269,295]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nediphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lehtineni" status="sp. n.">
<emphasis box="[395,614,269,295]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">Nediphya lehtineni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[620,681,269,296]" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
(♂,
<specimenCount box="[735,754,267,296]" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" type="female"></specimenCount>
),
<taxonomicName authority="Marusik &amp; Omelko, 2017" authorityName="Marusik &amp; Omelko" authorityYear="2017" box="[777,884,269,295]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nediphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hippai" status="sp. n.">
<emphasis box="[777,884,269,295]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">N. hippai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[890,951,269,296]" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
(
<specimenCount box="[967,986,267,296]" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" type="female"></specimenCount>
),
<taxonomicName authority="Marusik &amp; Omelko, 2017" authorityName="Marusik &amp; Omelko" authorityYear="2017" box="[1009,1107,269,295]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nediphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lyleae" status="sp. n.">
<emphasis box="[1009,1107,269,295]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">N. lyleae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1114,1177,269,296]" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
, and
<taxonomicName authority="Marusik &amp; Omelko, 2017" authorityName="Marusik &amp; Omelko" authorityYear="2017" box="[174,297,301,327]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Nediphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="padillai" status="sp. n.">
<emphasis box="[174,297,301,327]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">N. padillai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[303,365,301,328]" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" rank="species">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
(
<specimenCount box="[382,401,299,328]" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" type="female"></specimenCount>
), all from
<collectingCountry box="[524,754,301,328]" name="Papua New Guinea" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">Papua New Guinea</collectingCountry>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="206" type="etymology">
<paragraph blockId="3.[174,1232,173,424]" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">
Etymology. The genus name is a combination of two letters from terra typica
<collectingCountry name="Papua New Guinea" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">Papua New Guinea</collectingCountry>
with
<taxonomicName authorityName="Nicolet" authorityYear="1849" box="[383,468,365,391]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Diphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[383,468,365,391]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">Diphya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and, in most Slavic languages, meaning “not
<taxonomicName authorityName="Nicolet" authorityYear="1849" box="[992,1077,365,391]" class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Diphya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="3" pageNumber="206" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[992,1077,365,391]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="206">Diphya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
”. The gender is feminine.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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