Pholcus kuhapimuk Huber, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Berhard A. Huber
name: Booppa Petchard
name: Charles Leh Moi Ung
name: Joseph K. H. Koh
name: Amir R. M. Ghazali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Pholcus
Pholcus kuhapimuk

description: Pholcus kuhapimuk Huber, sp. nov.
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Figs 49–51, 58–62, 96–98
Diagnosis
Easily distinguished from most similar known relative (Ph. khaolek sp. nov.) by morphology of male palps (Figs 58–59; shapes of male palpal tarsus and procursus tip, small uncus, slender appendix) and by female internal genitalia (Figs 61–62; absence of median triangular sclerite). From other putatively close relatives also by combination of pale coloration (Figs 49–51), shape of male palpal trochanter apophysis (curved, proximally wide, distally pointed; Fig. 59), and small round pore plates far apart (Fig. 62).
Etymology
The species name is derived from the type locality; noun in apposition.
Type material
THAILAND: holotype, ♂, ZFMK (Ar 15026), Yala, Wat Kuhapimuk (6°31.7' N, 101°13.5' E), 40 m a.s.l., on wall in cave entry area, 4 Mar. 2015 (B.A. Huber, B. Petcharad).
Other material examined
THAILAND: 3 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, ZFMK (2 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, Ar 15027) and PSUZC (1 ♂, 1 ♀), same data as holotype; 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀, 4 juvs, in absolute ethanol, ZFMK (Mal 324), same data.
Assigned tentatively
THAILAND: 1 ♀, 2 juvs, in absolute ethanol, ZFMK (Mal 329), Satun, Thaleban National Park (6°43.58'N, 100°09.74' E), at rocks near cave entrance, 100 m a.s.l., 5 Mar. 2015 (B.A. Huber, B. Petcharad).
Description
Male (holotype)
MEASUREMENTS. Total body length 5.0, carapace width 1.4. Leg 1: 53.3 (12.9 + 0.5 + 12.9 + 25.0 + 2.0), tibia 2: 8.6, tibia 3: 5.4, tibia 4: 7.3; tibia 1 L/d: 98. Distance PME-PME 265 µm, diameter PME 115 µm, distance PME-ALE ~35 µm; distance AME-AME 35 µm; diameter AME 60 µm.
COLOR. Carapace pale ochre-grey with pair of brown marks posteriorly; ocular area slightly darker, clypeus not darkened; sternum pale grey with narrow dark margins; legs pale ochre-yellow with dark brown patellae and tibia-metatarsus joints; abdomen monochromous pale gray.
BODY. Habitus as in Fig. 49; ocular area slightly raised, with slightly stronger hairs behind each PME; carapace without median furrow; clypeus unmodified; sternum wider than long (1.00/0.67), unmodified.
CHELICERAE. As in Fig. 60, with pair of distal frontal apophyses provided with one or two modified hairs each, pair of rounded lateral processes, and pair of small indistinct proximal frontal humps.
PALPS. As in Figs 58–59; coxa unmodified; trochanter with large but weakly sclerotized retrolateroventral apophysis and low retrolateral hump; femur proximally widened on ventral side, with small retrolatero-dorsal apophysis; tarsus with short conical dorsal elongation carrying subdistal tarsal organ; procursus rather simple, ventral ‘knee’ with distal process; bulb with distinctive small uncus and slender appendix; weakly sclerotized short embolus.
LEGS. Without spines and curved hairs; few vertical hairs; retrolateral trichobothrium on tibia 1 at 6%; prolateral trichobothrium absent on tibia 1, present on other tibiae; tarsus 1 with> 30 pseudosegments, distally fairly distinct.
Male (variation)
Tibia 1 in 2 other males: 11.1, 12.6.
Female
In general similar to male (Fig. 51) but without stronger hairs behind PME; eye triads closer together than in male (PME-PME distance: 185 µm). Tibia 1 in 7 females: 8.1–9.8 (mean 8.7). Epigynum weakly sclerotized bulging area, only posterior margin more strongly sclerotized, apparently without ‘knob’, or ‘knob’ hidden below membranous flap (Figs 61, 96–97); internal genitalia as in Figs 62 and 98, with small round pore plates far from each other. The specimens from Thaleban National Park are assigned tentatively because no male specimen is available from this locality.
Natural history
At both localities, specimens were only found on rocks at the cave entrances but not deeper in the caves. The spiders were extremely cryptic, tightly pressed against the rock surface and barely visible even at close distance.
Distribution
Known from two localities in southern Thailand only (Fig. 57; specimens from Thaleban National Park assigned tentatively).
description: Published as part of Berhard A. Huber, Booppa Petchard, Charles Leh Moi Ung, Joseph K. H. Koh & Amir R. M. Ghazali, 2016, The Southeast Asian Pholcus halabala species group (Araneae, Pholcidae): new data from field observations and ultrastructure, pp. 1-55 in European Journal of Taxonomy 190 (190) on pages 17-21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.190, http://zenodo.org/record/831004