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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Liphistiidae" genus="Heptathela" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Heptathela helios" order="Araneae" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="helios">Heptathela helios</taxonomicName>
Tanikawa &amp; Miyashita, 2014: 68 (holotype: male (NSMT-Ar 12851), from Kunigami-son, Okinawajima, Japan, collected by A. Tanikawa on 26 May 2010, matured on 9 September 2012, deposited in NMNS, examined).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Males of
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can be distinguished from those of all other Okinawa group
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Heptathela</emphasis>
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species by the serrated contrategulum margin and the hooked tegular marginal apophysis, the ovate, indistinctly rugose conductor with a poorly serrated margin (
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Fig. 24
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). Females of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. helios</emphasis>
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can be distinguished from those of all other
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Heptathela</emphasis>
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species by the receptacular clusters with the inner ones being smaller than the laterals, and the laterals with numerous small granulate tubercula (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 24" captionStartId="F24" captionText="Figure 24. Male and female genital anatomy of Heptathela helio Tanikawa &amp; Miyashita, 2014 A-G 2440 A (short for XUX- 2012 - 440 A) H, K 2432 I, L 2434 J, M 2437 A palp prolateral view B palp ventral view C palp retrolateral view D-G palp distal view H-J vulva dorsal view K-M vulva ventral view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.888.34494.figure24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/354515" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.888.34494.figure24">
Fig. 24
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).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. helios</emphasis>
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can also be diagnosed from all other Okinawa group
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species by the following unique nucleotide substitutions in the standard DNA barcode alignment: T (11), T (35), G (47), A (56), C (59), A (95), T (104), A (131), T (140), T (179), C (188), C (215), G (221), C (242), C (266), C (273), C (299), C (300), C (304), T (359), G (380), T (413), A (422), T (425), T (431), G (479), G (480), G (491), G (506), C (543), T (546), G (548), C (551), C (596), T (662).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 24.</emphasis>
Male and female genital anatomy of
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Tanikawa &amp; Miyashita, 2014
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2440A (short for XUX-2012-440A)
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2432
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2434
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palp prolateral view
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palp ventral view
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palp retrolateral view
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palp distal view
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vulva dorsal view
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vulva ventral view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Description.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Male.</emphasis>
Carapace and opisthosoma brown, with dark brown tergites; cheliceral groove with 14 denticles; tergites closed to each other; seven spinnerets. Measurements: BL 9.88, CL 5.30, CW 4.81, OL 4.58, OW 2.92; ALE&gt; PLE&gt; PME&gt; AME; leg I 16.56 (4.55 + 1.90 + 3.48 + 4.33 + 2.30), leg II 17.19 (4.50 + 2.00 + 3.34 + 4.68 + 2.67), leg III 18.35 (4.35 + 1.97 + 3.40 + 5.53 + 3.10), leg IV 23.37 (5.52 + 2.10 + 4.47 + 7.48 + 3.80).
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.
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The bulb of the two male specimens relatively distorted. Prolateral side of paracymbium unpigmented and unsclerotised, numerous setae and spines at the tip of paracymbium (
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Fig. 24
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). Contrategulum with a serrated margin (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 24" captionStartId="F24" captionText="Figure 24. Male and female genital anatomy of Heptathela helio Tanikawa &amp; Miyashita, 2014 A-G 2440 A (short for XUX- 2012 - 440 A) H, K 2432 I, L 2434 J, M 2437 A palp prolateral view B palp ventral view C palp retrolateral view D-G palp distal view H-J vulva dorsal view K-M vulva ventral view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.888.34494.figure24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/354515" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.888.34494.figure24">Fig. 24E, G</figureCitation>
). Tegulum with a dentate dorsal extension of terminal apophysis (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 24" captionStartId="F24" captionText="Figure 24. Male and female genital anatomy of Heptathela helio Tanikawa &amp; Miyashita, 2014 A-G 2440 A (short for XUX- 2012 - 440 A) H, K 2432 I, L 2434 J, M 2437 A palp prolateral view B palp ventral view C palp retrolateral view D-G palp distal view H-J vulva dorsal view K-M vulva ventral view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.888.34494.figure24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/354515" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.888.34494.figure24">Fig. 24F, G</figureCitation>
), blunt terminal and hook-like marginal apophysis (
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 24" captionStartId="F24" captionText="Figure 24. Male and female genital anatomy of Heptathela helio Tanikawa &amp; Miyashita, 2014 A-G 2440 A (short for XUX- 2012 - 440 A) H, K 2432 I, L 2434 J, M 2437 A palp prolateral view B palp ventral view C palp retrolateral view D-G palp distal view H-J vulva dorsal view K-M vulva ventral view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.888.34494.figure24" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/354515" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.888.34494.figure24">Fig. 24D, F, G</figureCitation>
). Conductor sclerotised, ovate, and wide, with indistinct rugae (
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Fig. 24
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). Embolus sclerotised, with a wide opening, the distal margin slightly sclerotised, and with a saddle-shaped margin in the retrolateral view (
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Fig. 24
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Females</emphasis>
(
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= 7). Carapace and opisthosoma colour as in male; cheliceral groove with 12-14 pronounced denticles; opisthosoma with 12 well-separated tergites; seven spinnerets. Measurements: BL 11.70-14.45, CL 5.29-6.70, CW 4.29-5.81, OL 6.54-8.18, OW 4.70-6.63; ALE&gt; PLE&gt; PME&gt; AME; palp 12.29 (4.20 + 2.03 + 2.63 + 3.43), leg I 14.31 (4.51 + 2.40 + 2.65 + 3.08 + 1.67), leg II 14.04 (4.25 + 2.35 + 2.53+ 3.11 + 1.80), leg III 13.75 (3.92 + 2.40 + 2.48 + 2.67 + 2.28), leg IV 21.77 (5.90 + 2.88 + 3.75 + 6.11 + 3.13).
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Female genitalia</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
A pair of depressions on the ventro-lateral part of genital atrium (
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Fig. 24
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). Paired receptacular clusters along the anterior margin of bursa copulatrix, divided into two parts, inner receptacular clusters smaller than laterals, laterals with several small tubercula, with short genital stalks (
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Fig. 24
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).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Remarks.</paragraph>
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We identified the specimens collected from Ginama Dam, Okinawa, as
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. helios</emphasis>
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based on evidence from morphology and COI barcode genetic distance compared with the male holotype and paratype (NSMT-Ar 12851, NSMT-Ar 12855) of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">H. helios</emphasis>
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in
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.63.65" author="Tanikawa, A" journalOrPublisher="Acta Arachnologica" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="65 - 72" refId="B35" refString="Tanikawa, A, Miyashita, T, 2014. Discovery of a cryptic species of Heptathela from the northernmost part of Okinawajima Is., Southwest Japan, as revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. Acta Arachnologica 63: 65 - 72" title="Discovery of a cryptic species of Heptathela from the northernmost part of Okinawajima Is., Southwest Japan, as revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear DNA." url="https://doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.63.65" volume="63" year="2014">Tanikawa and Miyashita (2014)</bibRefCitation>
. K2P and
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-distances between Ginama Dam specimens and the holotype (NSMT-Ar 12851) were 3.2-3.4% and 3.1-3.3%, respectively, and those between Ginama Dam specimens and the paratype (NSMT-Ar 12855) were 1.8-2.1% and 1.7-2.1%, respectively.
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JAPAN · 2 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀; Okinawa-ken, Kunigami-son, Ginama Dam;
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,
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; alt. 150 m; 24 December 2012; D. Li, F.X. Liu and X. Xu leg.; XUX-2012-432 to 440C.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
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The species is endemic to the Japanese island Okinawajima (
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).
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