Speocera cucphuong Li &amp; Li 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Tong, Yanfeng
name: Li, Fengyuan
name: Song, Yang
name: Chen, Haifeng
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Ochyroceratidae
Speocera
Speocera cucphuong

description: <i>Speocera cucphuong</i> Li &amp; Li sp. nov. (Figs 18–19, 55H, I) Material examined. Holotype &amp;male; (IZCAS), Vietnam, Ninh Binh Province, Cuc Phuong National Park, on the path to the Old Tree, 20.VIII.2015 (20º20.972′N, 105º35.600′E), elev. 437 m, leg. Q. Zhao, Y. Li &amp; Z. Chen. Paratype 1&amp;female; (IZCAS), same data as holotype. Etymology. The specific name is derived from the type locality; noun. Diagnosis. The new species is similar to <i>S. bulbiformis</i> Lin, Pham &amp; Li, 2009, but males can be distinguished by the laterally excavated chelicerae with a horn-like apophysis (Figs 55H–I) and by the nearly spherical male palpal bulb (Figs 18A–B), and females by the very long, curved afferent spermathecae (Fig. 19B). <i>S. bulbiformis</i> males have unmodified chelicerae, a more flattened palpal bulb, and females have very short, nearly straight afferent spermathecae (Lin <i>et al.</i>, 2009: figs 3–4). Description. Male. Total length 1.13; carapace length 0.51; carapace width 0.44; abdomen length 0.57; abdomen width 0.40. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern (Fig. 18C); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide. Endites light yellow with serrula; labium light yellow. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow; external margin strongly excavated, anterior face with one horn-like apophysis; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles (Figs 55H–I). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation, PME smallest, PLE largest (Fig. 18C). Opisthosoma oval; light gray. Legs light yellow; leg lengths I, II missing; III 1.56 (0.42, 0.14, 0.43, 0.32, 0.25); IV 2.16 (0.60, 0.16, 0.63, 0.45, 0.32). Genitalia (Fig. 18). Palpal femur long; palpal tibia as long as cymbium (Figs 18A–B). Cymbium conical, with a prolateral extension basally. Bulb spherical, as long as wide. Embolus short, black, associated sclerites absent; sperm duct initially wide, gradually narrowing distally (Fig. 18D). Female. Total length 1.41; carapace length 0.57; carapace width 0.46; abdomen length 0.80; abdomen width 0.58. Similar to male in color and general features (Figs 19D–E) but larger. Chelicerae unmodified. Legs light yellow; leg lengths I 1.85 (0.50, 0.16, 0.52, 0.37, 0.29); II missing; III 1.64 (0.45, 0.15, 0.43, 0.47, 0.34); IV 2.22 (0.40, 0.13, 0.30, 0.29, 0.23). Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae elongated, curved, extending past the sides of the abdomen (Fig. 19B); spermathecae oval (Fig. 19A). Distribution. Known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of <i>Tong, Yanfeng, Li, Fengyuan, Song, Yang, Chen, Haifeng &amp; Li, Shuqiang, 2019, Thirty-two new species of the genus Speocera Berland, 1914 (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from China, Madagascar and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-75 in Zoological Systematics 44 (1)</i> on pages 18-26, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201901, http://zenodo.org/record/5366923