Hahnia thorntoni Brignoli 1982
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhi-Sheng
name: Zhang, Yao-Guang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Hahnia
Hahnia thorntoni

description: Hahnia thorntoni Brignoli, 1982
Figures 3 A–E, 4A–I, 5A–C, 6A–G, 7A–D
Hahnia thorntoni Brignoli, 1982: 346 (male holotype only; male paratype misidentified) (misspelled as H. thortoni). Hahnia maginii: Yu et al. 1984: 11 (female); Song 1987: 199, fig. 157 (female); Song et al. 1999: 361, figs 210Q–R (female). (Misidentified)
Hahnia flagellifera Zhu et al., 1989: 148, figs 1–6 (male, female); Chen & Gao 1990: 119, figs 149a–f (male, female); Song et al. 1999: 361, figs 210I–J, 211J–K (male, female); Zhang et al. 2011: 9, figs 6A–C, 7A–D, 8A–I, 9A–G (male, female); Jäger & Praxaysombath 2011: 28. (New synonymy)
Hahnia yueluensis Yin & Wang, 1983: 143, figs 9–10 (female); Song 1987: 202, figs 161A–B (female); Chen & Gao 1990: 121, fig. 150a (female); Song et al. 1999: 362, figs 211B–C (female). (New synonymy)
Material examined. CHINA: HONG KONG: Male holotype, 6.IV.1965, I.W.B. Thornton (BMNH); SICHUAN: 1 male and 1 female (80–73, might be paratypes of H. flagellifera, not indicated), from cornfield, Guangyuan City, X.E. Chen (JLU); 6 males, Mt. Emei, 22.IX.–3.X.1975 (JLU); 12 males, Changning County, Zhuhai Town, Sansonghu Village, 28.–30.IX.2008, Z.S. Zhang & L.Y. Wang (SWUC 11 males; BMNH 1 male); 3 males, Changning County, Meidong Town, Gaojian Village, 29.IX.2008, R.Y. Zuo & Y.F. Zhang (SWUC); CHONGQING: 1 female, Beibei District, Jindaoxia Scenic Spot, 23.XI.2008, Z.S. Zhang (SWUC); 1 female, Mt. Jinyun, Banzigou, 12.IV.2008, Z.S. Zhang (SWUC); 3 females, Baizigou, 17.IV.2010, Z.X. Li, L.Y. Wang, Z. Li & K.Y. Xu (SWUC); 1 female, Jiangjin District, Simianshan Town, 6.III.2009, Z.S. Zhang & Q.Y. Feng (SWUC); 1 female, Simian Mountain Natural Reserve, Dawuopu, 11.IX.2011, Z.X. LI & L.Y. WANG (BMNH); YUNNAN: 3 males, 63 females, Mengla County, Menglun Town, X.2006 – IV.2007, G. Zheng (IZCAS); 1 female, Mengla County, Menglun Town, 17.X.2009, G. Tang & Z.Y. Yao (IZCAS); 1 male, Menglun Town, 27.XI.2009, G. Tang & Z.Y. Yao (IZCAS); 1 female, Menglun, 20.XI.2009, G. Tang & Z.Y. Yao (IZCAS); JIANGXI: 1 male, Wuzhou, Campus of East China Institute of Technology, 30.X.2010, G.C. Zhou (SWUC).
Diagnosis. Females of the species are similar to H. jocquei (Bosmans 1982: 177, figs 2 – 3), H. maginii (Figs 1 A–F, 2A–B), H. ovata (Song & Zheng 1982: 81, figs 5–8), H. rossii (Brignoli 1977: 79, fig. 46), and H. submaginii (Zhang et al. 2011: 19, figs 18A–F) in having an epigynal atrium and small, anteriorly located subspermathecae, but differ from the others by the large, oval atrium with distinct margin (Figs 6 D, 6E, 7A, 7C). Males of the species are similar to H. submaginii (Zhang et al. 2011: 19, figs 17A–C), but are distinguished by the simple patellar apophysis (Figs 3 C–E, 4G–I, 5A–C), rather than a bifurcate one.
Description. See Brignoli (1982: 346) and the description of H. flagellifera in Zhang et al. (2011: 19). Male holotype’s habitus, stridulatory files and palp are shown in Figures 3 A, 3B, 3C–E. Photos of specimens from Menglun in Yunnan are shown in Figures 4 A–I, 5A–C, 6A–G, 7A–D.
Distribution. China (Hong Kong, Yunan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan), Laos.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Zhi-Sheng & Zhang, Yao-Guang, 2013, Synonymy and misidentification of three Hahnia species (Araneae: Hahniidae) from China, pp. 521-533 in Zootaxa 3682 (4) on pages 525-526, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3682.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/249254