Clubiona tangi Liu, Peng & Yan, 2016, new species
Creators: name: Liu, Ping
name: Peng, Xianjin
name: Yan, Hengmei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Clubionidae
Clubiona
Clubiona tangi

description: Clubiona tangi new species
Figs 51–62
Type material. Holotype: Ƌ from 51 km of the road Bawan to Tengchong (24°35'07"N, 98°26'16"E, 2018 m), Dahaoping Village, Tengchong County, Yunnan Province, China, 17 October 2003, G. Tang leg.. Paratypes: CHINA. Yunnan Province: 1 ♀, same data as holotype; 1 Ƌ, Tengchong County, Jietou Township, Shaba Village, Lijiazai Group (25°14'11"N, 98°25'16"E, 1819 m), 23 October 2003, G. Tang leg.; 1 ♀, Tengchong County, Dahaoping Village, 41–46 km of the road Bawan to Tengchong (24°33'22"N, 99°27'06"E, 2416 m), 18 October 2003, G. Tang leg.; 1 ♀, Tengchong County, Jietou Township, Shaba Village (25°23'33"N, 98°42'12"E, 1850 m), 25 May 2006, X.P. Wang, P. Hu leg..
Etymology. The specific name is a patronym in honor of the collector of the holotype, Guo Tang (the College of Life Sciences, at the Hunan Normal University) who passed away in 2014; noun.
Diagnosis. Males and females of Clubiona tangi n. sp. resemble those of C. biforamina n. sp., but differ by the triangular ventral tibial apophysis, extending transversely in ventral view (Figs 54, 59), with blunt apex in retrolateral view (Figs 55, 60); spermatic duct inverted S-shaped in ventral view (Figs 54, 59); conductor with folded apex, base about as wide as apex in ventral view (Figs 54, 59); atrium elliptic, enclosed, posterior border with a small helicoid median protuberance (Figs 56, 61); copulatory openings semicircular, located at lateral atrial borders (Figs 56, 61); copulatory duct clearly visible in dorsal view (Figs 57, 62); head of spermathecae almost longitudinal, about two times wider than spermathecae base (Figs 57, 62).
Description. Male (holotype): Total length undetermined; carapace 1.60 long, 1.55 wide; abdomen dried. Cephalothorax (Fig. 51). Carapace brownish yellow; chelicerae brownish yellow, promargin with five teeth, fourth largest, retromargin with five subequal teeth; endites and labium brownish yellow, sternum yellow, with few hairs. Eyes. In dorsal view, anterior eye row slightly recurved, posterior eye row slightly procurved; all eyes dark, surrounded by black pigment; eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.08, ALE 0.10, PLE 0.10, PME 0.13, AME–AME 0.03, AME–ALE 0.03, PME–PME 0.15, PME–PLE 0.10; MOQL 0.28, MOQA 0.23, MOQP 0.35. Legs yellow; tibiae I and II with six ventral spines, metatarsi I and II with one pair of ventral spines; leg measurements: I 4.83 (1.35, 1.88, 1.0, 0.60), II 5.35 (1.50, 2.20, 1.20, 0.45), III 4.68 (1.25, 1.60, 1.20, 0.63), IV 6.08 (1.75, 2.05, 1.75, 0.53); leg formula: IV, II, I, III. Abdomen (Fig. 51) greyish brown. Palp (Figs 53–55, 58– 60). Femur and patella unmodified, without apophyses; ventral tibial apophysis short, with blunt apex; retrolateral tibial apophysis flat, triangular, covered by a membranous tibial lamelae; cymbium longer than bulb; bulb almost rectangular, sperm duct inverted S-shaped in ventral view; conductor lamellar, with base as wide as apex; embolus slender, with cuspidal apex.
Female (paratype): Total length undetermined; carapace 3.0 long, 2.05 wide; abdomen dried. Eye diameters and interdistances: AME 0.11, ALE 0.15, PLE 0.13, PME 0.15, AME–AME 0.10, AME–ALE 0.08, PME–PME 0.25, PME–PLE 0.15; MOQL 0.38, MOQA 0.35, MOQP 0.53. Leg measurements: I 5.75 (1.70, 2.30, 1.10, 0.65), II 6.60 (2.0, 2.60, 1.25, 0.75), III 5.70 (1.75, 1.90, 1.45, 0.60), IV 7.88 (2.25, 2.80, 2.13, 0.70); leg formula: IV, II, I, III. Epigyne (Figs 56–57, 61–62). Atrium elliptic, located at anterior portion of epigynal plate, posterior border with a small median helicoid protuberance; two copulatory openings located at lateral atrial borders; copulatory ducts thick, extending transversely outwards; spermathecae with ovoid heads and tubular bases; bursae ovoid and translucent.
Distribution. Presently known only from Yunnan, China.
description: Published as part of Liu, Ping, Peng, Xianjin & Yan, Hengmei, 2016, Five new species of the Clubiona corticalis species group (Araneae, Clubionidae) from China, pp. 561-575 in Zootaxa 4184 (3) on pages 572-575, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/257982