Description
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Carapace brown. Sternum brown with rugose texture. Legs orange with dark rings distally on tibiae and metatarsi. Abdomen subspherical, dark gray, with numerous small sclerotized patches, some baring long setae, both sexes with pair of conspicuous bumps on the posterodorsal part of the abdomen; male with single orange scutum laterally and posteriorly, female without sclerite around spinnerets (Fig. 86D-F).
Male palp: Median apophysis with one tapered process. Embolus a long, rigid, tapered helix making a three turns (Fig. 88A).
Vulva: Scape projects ventrally (Fig. 86D). Spermathecae separated by two thirds their diameter. Ducts arise from mesal part of spermathecae, follow complex path before opening near scape apex (Fig. 89B).
Male (CASENT 9022398): Total length 0.88, carapace 0.39 long, 0.35 wide, clypeus 0.13, sternum 0.25 long, 0.24 wide, coxa IV separated by 1.85 times their width. Leg I: patella d1, tibia d2, metatarsus unmodifi ed; Leg II: patella d1, tibia d2, v3, metatarsus excavated proximoventrally; Leg III: patella d1, tibia d1; Leg IV: patella d1, tibia d1. Metatarsal trichobothria: TmI: 0.45; TmII: 0.41; TmIII: absent. Leg measurements: see Appendix A.
Female (CASENT 9022398): Total length 0.97, carapace 0.42 long, 0.35 wide, clypeus 0.12, sternum 0.28 long, 0.24 wide, coxa IV separated by 1.92 times their width. Leg I: patella d1, tibia d2; Leg II: patella d1, tibia d2; Leg III: patella d1, tibia d1; Leg IV: patella d1, tibia d1. Metatarsal trichobothria: TmI: 0.40; TmII: 0.42; TmIII: absent. Leg measurements: see Appendix A.
- bibliographic citation
- The symphytognathoid spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Araneoidea): Systematics and diversity of micro-orbweavers
Distribution
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Holotype: CHINA: Yunnan: Longling Co., Mangkuan Township, Zaotang He at Baihualing village, 25.30450°N, 98.80059°E, 1635 m, 2 June 2005, good subtropical broadleaf forest, dusting webs in understory,C. Griswold, CGY135 (CASENT 9029324, HNU), 1 ♂.
Paratypes: [same data as holotype] (CASENT 9022397, HNU), 1 ♀; [same data as holotype] (CASENT 9022398, CAS), 1 ♂, 2 ♀; (CASENT 9029350, CAS), 1 ♀; [same data as holotype] (CASENT 9029344, PV 1033-1041, CAS), 1 ♀.
