Speocera bawangling 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 bawangling

description: <i>Speocera bawangling</i> Li &amp; Li sp. nov. (Figs 11– 12, 55E–F) Material examined. Holotype &amp;male; (IZCAS), China, Hainan Province, Changjiang County, Bawangling Natural Reserve, Dong’er protection station (19º5.825′N, 109º10.513′E), elev. 1007m, 11.IV.2012, leg. Z. Chen. Paratypes 3&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. amber</i> Li &amp; Li <b>sp. nov.</b>, but males can be distinguished by the long, dark, curved hook like embolus (Figs 11A–B) and a palpal tibia that is shorter than the cymbium, and the females by the large oval spermathecae (Fig. 12A). <i>S. amber</i> Li &amp; Li <b>sp. nov.</b> males have a very long, ribbon-like, nearly transparent embolus and a palpal tibia that is longer than the cymbium, and females have spiral spermathecae (Fig. 1). Description. Male. Total length 1.03; carapace length 0.50; carapace width 0.44; abdomen length 0.47; abdomen width 0.39. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern (Fig. 12C); 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, laterally strongly excavated, with a small horn-shaped apophysis; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles (Figs 55E–F). Eyes: six contiguous eyes nearly equal sized, surrounded by black pigmentation (Fig. 12C). Opisthosoma oval; purplish. Legs light yellow; leg lengths I 2.03 (0.58, 0.16, 0.61, 0.38, 0.30); II 1.85 (0.54, 0.16, 0.51, 0.35, 0.28); III, IV missing. Genitalia (Fig. 11). Palpal femur long; palpal tibia about 0.8 times as long as cymbium (Fig. 11A). Cymbium conical, without prolateral extension. Bulb spherical. Embolus long, dark, curved, hook like and basally with an associated coniform sclerite; sperm duct initially wide, gradually narrowing distally (Fig. 11D). Female. Total length 1.13; carapace length 0.50; carapace width 0.42; abdomen length 0.63; abdomen width 0.56. Similar to male in color and general features (Figs 12D–E) but larger. Chelicerae unmodified. Leg lengths I, II missing; III 1.45 (0.39, 0.15, 0.38, 0.29, 0.24); IV 1.92 (0.53, 0.18, 0.53, 0.39, 0.29). Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae very short, straight, not extending past the sides of the abdomen (Fig. 12B); spermathecae large, oval (Fig. 12A). 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 13-17, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201901, http://zenodo.org/record/5366923