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<taxonomicName id="8354B84E0E7AFD831AF3F6EB2107B994" ID-CoL="4XK2M" authority="Shear, 1978" authorityName="Shear" authorityYear="1978" class="Arachnida" family="Tetrablemmidae" genus="Singaporemma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Singaporemma singulare" order="Araneae" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="singulare">Singaporemma singulare Shear, 1978</taxonomicName>
Figs 22, 23
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, 24, 25, 26
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<taxonomicName id="AF565ACC98E896CC7F86259116D3810E" class="Arachnida" family="Tetrablemmidae" genus="Singaporemma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Singaporemma singularis" order="Araneae" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="singularis">Singaporemma singularis</taxonomicName>
Shear, 1978: 36, figs 108-111; Lehtinen, 1981: 31.
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<paragraph id="297707D8B29A6DE1FEAC4A169E2A9F3D" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Examined materiral.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="51ABF00CE5488DA07AA2DCEFF8F33D25" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Holotype ♂ and paratype 1♀ (AMNH), SINGAPORE: near MacRitchie Reservoir, 25 October 1950, M.W.F. Tweedie leg.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="ECA27169F1ADE728061A99CB17155C47" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Other material.</paragraph>
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10♂ and 6♀ (LKCNHM), SINGAPORE: Central Catchment Nature Reserve, treetop walk,
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,
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, 28 August 2015, S. Li and Y. Tong leg; 5♂ and 4♀ (NHMSU), SINGAPORE: Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Treetop Walk,
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,
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, 28 August 2015, S. Li and Y. Tong leg.
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Figure 22.
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Shear, 1978, male holotype (
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habitus
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prosoma. A, C dorsal B, D ventral
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anterior
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lateral. Scale bars: 0.10 mm.
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<paragraph id="6F2C5E14EC1CB34ED641222FCFE88080" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Other species studied for comparison.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="9965B8EA3890D38660EE90E720AE9336" class="Arachnida" family="Tetrablemmidae" genus="Singaporemma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Singaporemma adjacens" order="Araneae" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="adjacens">Singaporemma adjacens</taxonomicName>
Lehtinen, 1981 (Fig. 23F; Lehtinen, 1981: 31, figs 47, 51, 64). Holotype ♂ (NHMSU), VIETNAM: Quang Ninh, Ha Long, in litter of dense jungle close to seashore, altitude 10 m, 12 October 1978, P.T. Lehtinen leg.
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Figure 23.
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Shear, 1978, male holotype (
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) and female paratype (
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), and
<taxonomicName id="2498EBBD84BD4D0D6B661456A5170372" class="Arachnida" family="Tetrablemmidae" genus="Singaporemma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Singaporemma adjacens" order="Araneae" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="adjacens">Singaporemma adjacens</taxonomicName>
Lehtinen, 1981, male holotype (F).
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,
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left palp D embolic end G opisthosoma H Genital area (untreated). A, D prolateral B, F retrolateral C anterior E,
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ventral. Abbreviations: A = anal plate; ep = embolic part of apes of palpal organ; L = lateral plate; MV = median ventrolateral plate; P = pulmonary plate; PA = preanal plate; PG = postgenital plate. Scale bars: 0.10 mm, D 0.05 mm.
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<paragraph id="484BDAD58A5139B002EDD9778C4BB7E2" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2070AB2F66510CD61F9CD2CB083F8CAB" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">
<taxonomicName id="290EB9AC008F7C0C5B83C4775916B4D6" class="Arachnida" family="Tetrablemmidae" genus="Singaporemma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Singaporemma singulare" order="Araneae" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="singulare">Singaporemma singulare</taxonomicName>
is distinguished from
<taxonomicName id="13409D99E7550C815FC31AFCE88AC45D" class="Arachnida" family="Tetrablemmidae" genus="Singaporemma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Singaporemma bifurcata" order="Araneae" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bifurcata">Singaporemma bifurcata</taxonomicName>
(see Lin and Li, 2010: 26, figs 35-37) and
<taxonomicName id="B7C7FD388BBF004586135BE64FDACEEB" class="Arachnida" family="Tetrablemmidae" genus="Singaporemma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Singaporemma wulongensis" order="Araneae" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wulongensis">Singaporemma wulongensis</taxonomicName>
(see Lin and Li, 2014: 46, fig. 8
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) by the embolus without any furcate end; from
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(see Fig. 23F and Lehtinen, 1981: 31: fig. 64
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) by the narrower embolus. It is similar to
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(see
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: 42, fig. 5
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),
<taxonomicName id="C7B6B99FBFE473478364491FA2632C24" class="Arachnida" family="Tetrablemmidae" genus="Singaporemma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Singaporemma halongense" order="Araneae" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="halongense">Singaporemma halongense</taxonomicName>
(see Figs 19A, 21
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and Lehtinen, 1981: 31, fig. 62
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), and
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sp. n. (Figs 17
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, 18
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, 19
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) in having a straight embolus with modified end, but the male can be distinguished by the initial position of embolus (Figs 23A, 25D) and the knife-shaped embolic end (Figs 23D, 25C). Female distinguished by the absence of central process (Fig. 26C) and the punctured rather than reticulated clypeal area (Fig. 24F).
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Figure 24.
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Shear, 1978, male and female specimens from Singapore.
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,
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habitus
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prosoma. A, C dorsal B, D ventral
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anterior
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lateral. Scale bars: 0.10 mm.
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<paragraph id="07CB1446CD93B3409C72D1E616322CE8" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8691F03ECCF89A209F56B28603DB1215" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Male. Coloration: body reddish-brown; legs yellowish-brown.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C2D185423D0A00990916AF5B71534EDB" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Measurements: total length 1.14; carapace 0.50 long, 0.45 wide, 0.44 high; abdomen 0.73 long, 0.60 wide, 0.52 high; clypeus 0.19 high; sternum 0.30 long, 0.33 wide. Length of legs: I 1.24 (0.40, 0.13, 0.30, 0.19, 0.22); II 1.10 (0.34, 0.12, 0.26, 0.18, 0.20); III 0.99 (0.30, 0.12, 0.22, 0.17, 0.18); IV 1.36 (0.43, 0.14, 0.34, 0.23, 0.22).</paragraph>
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Prosoma (Fig. 24
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, E, G): carapace finely reticulated, except for the radial grooves in thoracic area, marginally denticulate (Fig. 24A, E); eyes with black base, ALE&gt;AME&gt;PLE, ALE and PLE adjacent, ARE straight; cephalic part raised, top flat, covered with long setae (Fig. 24G); clypeus high, sharply sloping forward, bears densely short setae, anterior margin rugose (Fig. 24E); Cheliceral frontal surface sculptured, but lack of process, cheliceral lamina developed; sternum finely reticulated, marginally rugose, and posteriorly truncated. Legs striated, cuticle scalelike.
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Opisthosoma (Figs 24
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, G; 26A): covered with serrated setae; dorsal scutum oval, reticulated, bears sparse nodules and setae; ventral scutum reticulated, margin rugose; booklung cover rounded, smooth; lateral scutum I long, exceeding by far the posterior margin of preanal scutum; perigenital scutum large; postgenital scutum wide, its posterior margin overlaps joint of anterior margin of preanal scutum; preanal scutum rectangular, with blunt corners.
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Figure 25.
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Shear, 1978, male specimen from Singapore. A palpal bulb, ventral B left palp, anterior C embolic end, prolateral D left palp, prolateral Editto, retrolateral. Abbreviations: ep = embolic part of apes of palpal organ. Scale bars: 0.10 mm.
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Palp (Figs 23
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; 25
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): femoral cuticle granular, striated, approximately 2.6 times as long as patella; patella short; tibia swollen, 1.8 times as wide as femur; cymbium wide and compressed; bulb long egg-shaped, surface smooth; spermatic duct basally wide, and tapering to the base of embolus after coiling a loop; embolus thin and long, weakly sclerotized, starting from the prolateral pericenter of bulbous surface, and almost straight downwards (Figs 23A, 25D); embolic end flexuous, knife-shaped (Figs 23D, 25C).
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<paragraph id="952AC3A6EFC5858670390093542A1BE1" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Female. Coloration: body slightly lighter than in male; legs yellowish-brown.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="CC9241FF2B8563BCADB81451B88B5C57" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Measurement: total length 1.18; carapace 0.50 long, 0.44 wide, 0.44 high; abdomen 0.74 long, 0.63 wide, 0.56 high; clypeus 0.17 high; sternum 0.29 long, 0.32 wide. Length of legs: I 1.24 (0.40, 0.14, 0.28, 0.20, 0.22); II 1.14 (0.37, 0.13, 0.25, 0.19, 0.20); III 1.04 (0.32, 0.12, 0.22, 0.18, 0.20); IV 1.39 (0.44, 0.13, 0.35, 0.24, 0.23).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="B47941BDA05ACDE5C7A081977519CA27" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">
Figure 26.
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Shear, 1978, female specimen from Singapore. A opisthosoma B genital area (untreated) C cleared vulva (lactic acid-treated) Dditto.
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, D ventral C dorsal. Abbreviations: A = anal plate; AV = anterior ventrolateral plate; EP = epigynal pit; IVP = inner vulval plate; L = lateral plate; LH = lateral horn; MV = median ventrolateral plate; P = pulmonary plate; PA = preanal plate; PG = postgenital plate; SR = seminal receptaculum; VD = vulval duct; VS = vulval stem. Scale bars: 0.10 mm.
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Prosoma (Fig. 24
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, F, H) as in male, except for clypeal area no reticulated, but covered with short setae. Palp reduced. Legs also as in male.
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<paragraph id="A6CFA0FFA6C735ED27945D40E044912B" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">
Opisthosoma (Figs 24
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, H; 26A): dorsal and ventral scuta as in male; lateral scutum I long, exceeding by far posterior margin of preanal scutum; perigenital scutum large, long oval; postgenital scutum slightly curved, faintly wider than preanal scutum, overlapped joint the anterior margin of preanal scutum; preanal scutum smooth, nearly rectangular, with sparse serrated setae.
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<paragraph id="266D85294A1A59BB86FB5F497FAD21DB" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">
Genitalia (Figs 23H, 26
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): epigynal pit small, indistinct (Fig. 26B, D), closed to vulval posterior margin (Fig. 21C); vulval stem wide, connected with lateral horns; central process absent; inner vulval plate
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-shaped, basally sclerotized (Fig. 26C); lateral horn narrow, and straight; vulval ducts relatively wide, upward curved, translucent, connected to the saccular seminal receptaculum (Fig. 26C).
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<subSubSection id="F08F3FB626BCA28B4070DB8FB5E4776F" pageId="11" pageNumber="26" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="BF8D4D20F00FD3048851FE606208C280" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B47CECBECEC26A033E315E85BE235AE4" pageId="11" pageNumber="26">Singapore.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="FA992F415157C743B7D64DE916EFDF28" pageId="12" pageNumber="27" type="remarks">
<paragraph id="531DE4C7D86914E18F2FE85641D15F5B" pageId="12" pageNumber="27">
<pageBreakToken id="8E937789D39ED2B0183F8D49C6051029" pageId="12" pageNumber="27" start="start">Remarks</pageBreakToken>
.
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<paragraph id="3899000F6450206163F8B1D9EE054354" pageId="12" pageNumber="27">
This species is originally described from Singapore and was designated as the type species of the genus
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by
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. Based on the only male specimen available at that time, he had illustrated an embolus of the right palp that was said to be &quot;curving sharply posteriorly&quot; (Shear, 1978: 36, figs 109-110), i.e. bent at right angles at about mid-length.
<bibRefCitation id="66E725777070F9CACD9D82728D2374D8" author="Schwendinger, PJ" journalOrPublisher="Revue Suisse de Zoologie" pageId="15" pageNumber="30" pagination="423 - 436" title="Two new species of armoured spiders from Vietnam and Cambodia (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae: Pacullinae)." volume="122" year="2015">
Schwendinger and
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(2015)
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suggested that
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description of
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was based on an atypical specimen. They noted that five other
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male specimens from Singapore, one of them from the type locality itself, all had &quot;essentially straight emboli (only slightly bent ventrad) on both palps&quot;. We have since reexamined the holotype of the species and photographed its left palp (Fig. 23
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). We can now confirm that
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had indeed described a deformed embolus.
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