Telema spirae Lin & Li, 2010, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Lin, Yucheng
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Telemidae
Telema
Telema spirae

description: Telema spirae sp. nov.
Figs 12–13, 20
Type material: Holotype: male (IZCAS) from CHINA: Guangxi: Dawan Cave (Alt.: 438 m; T.: 18˚C; H.: 95%), Poyue Village, Poyue Town, Bama County [24º18.097΄N, 107º06.932΄E], 16 August 2007. J. Liu, Y.H. Guo and Y.C. Lin leg. Paratypes: 27 males and 96 females (IZCAS), same data as holotype.
Other material examined. CHINA: Guangxi: 3 males and 8 females (IZCAS), Dawanxiao Cave (Alt.: 425 m; T.: 18˚C; H.: 90%), Poyue Village, Poyue Town, Bama County [24º18.106΄N, 107º07.023΄E], 11 March 2007, J. Liu and Y.C. Lin leg.
Etymology. The specific epithet of the new species derives from Latin “ spira = coiled”, and refers to the shape of coiled spermatheca.
Diagnosis. The new species is similar to T. liangxi Zhu & Chen, 2002, but can be distinguished by the nearly globose pedipalpal bulb, the long and asymmetrically forky embolus and the especially long spermatheca coiling into two circles.
Description. Holotype male. Total length 1.44. Prosoma 0.64 long, 0.58 wide. Sternum 0.40 long, 0.31 wide. Opisthosoma 0.76 long, 0.66 wide. Prosoma, opisthosoma and legs yellow. Eye absent. Dorsal shield of prosoma flat, sleek, without modified pattern. Chelicerae longer than sternum, fang furrow with 2 large teeth and 3 granulous denticles on promargin, 4 tiny triangular teeth on retromargin, a row of plumose setae along promargin. Endites longer than wide, shorter than chelicerae, serrula unseen. Labium long equal to wide, darkish basally, fused to sternum. Sternum flat, scutellate, longer slightly than wide, covered with sparse setae, posterior corner sharp. Femur I with modified large spines. Patella distally with a dorsal spine, as well as on each tibia mesially. Leg measurements: I 6.18 (1.90, 0.22, 1.94, 1.36, 0.76); II 5.94 (1.92, 0.24, 1.92, 1.18, 0.68); III 3.86 (1.28, 0.20, 1.14, 0.74, 0.50); IV 4.58 (1.54, 0.20, 1.32, 0.96, 0.56). Leg formula: I-II-IV- III. Opisthosoma pale, covered with sparse long setae.
Pedipalp large. Femur subequal to 3 times of patella, to 1.5 times of tibia in length, tibia with a dorsal trichobothrium mesially, tarsus longer than femur, cymbial apophysis present. Pedipalpal bulb globose, embolus extremely long, large, straight, asymmetrical bifurcated distally.
Female. Total length 1.48. Prosoma 0.64 long, 0.58 wide. Sternum 0.42 long, 0.34 wide. Opisthosoma 0.78 long, 0.72 wide. Somatic coloration and modification same as in male. Leg measurements: I 6.26 (1.94, 0.24, 1.98, 1.34, 0.76); II 5.30 (1.70, 0.22, 1.66, 1.08, 0.64); III 3.78 (1.26, 0.20, 1.10, 0.72, 0.50); IV 4.58 (1.58, 0.20, 1.40, 0.86, 0.54). Leg formula: I-II-IV-III.
Genital area with two rows of setae. Postomargin procurved mesially, slightly sclerotized laterally. Spermatheca evenly long-tubular, coiled into 2 rings, appending a small sac distally.
Distribution. China (Guangxi) (Fig. 20).
description: Published as part of Lin, Yucheng & Li, Shuqiang, 2010, Long-legged cave spiders (Araneae, Telemidae) from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwestern China, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 2445 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.195036