Pholcus chiangmaiensis Yao & Li, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Dong, Tingting
name: Zheng, Guo
name: Yao, Zhiyuan
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Pholcus
Pholcus chiangmaiensis

description: Pholcus chiangmaiensis Yao & Li sp. nov.
Figs 21–22
Type material. Holotype: male, PL 36 Cave (19°21.027′N, 99°01.698′E, elevation 474 m), Chiangmai, Thailand, 29 June 2014, S. Li leg. Paratypes: 1 male and 2 females, same data as holotype.
Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality; adjective.
Diagnosis. This species resembles P. n am ou Huber, 2011 (see Huber 2011: 298, figs 1378–1379, 1409–1410, 1471–1475) in having similar male chelicerae (Fig. 22 D), uncus (Fig. 22 C), and female external genitalia (Fig. 22 A) but can be distinguished by the absence of dorsal apophyses subdistally on the procursus (Figs 21 C–D), by the presence of a large angular branch proximally and a small angular branch subdistally on the appendix (arrows in Fig. 22 C), and by the nearly rounded pore plates of the vulva (Fig. 22 B).
Description. Male (holotype): Total length 4.61 (4.87 with clypeus), carapace 1.33 long, 1.19 wide, opisthosoma 3.28 long, 1.17 wide. Leg I: 48.11 (11.67 + 0.62 + 11.86 + 22.12 + 1.84), leg II: 31.22 (8.53 + 0.64 + 7.82 +13.14 + 1.09), leg III: 18.43 (5.45 + 0.53 + 4.55 + 7.05 + 0.85), leg IV: 25.81 (7.50 + 0.55 + 6.41 + 10.26 + 1.09); tibia I L/d: 95. Distance PME-PME 0.38; diameter PME 0.11; distance PME-ALE 0.03; distance AME- AME 0.05; diameter AME 0.05. Sternum wider than long (0.90/0.63). Habitus as in Figs 22 E–F. Carapace yellowish, with nearly triangular brown marks; ocular area brown; sternum yellowish, with brown marks. Legs yellowish, patellae, distal parts of femora and tibiae, and proximal parts of metatarsi dark brown, darker rings absent. Opisthosoma pale grey, with brown and whitish marks. Ocular area elevated; each eye triad on top of a short, laterally directed eye-stalk (as in P. hinsonensis sp. nov., cf. Fig. 31 C). Thoracic furrow absent. Chelicerae as in Fig. 22 D, with a pair of proximo-lateral apophyses, a pair of black distal apophyses with three teeth each. Pedipalps as in Figs 21 A–B; trochanter with a long ventral apophysis, and an angular branch subproximally; femur with a dorsal apophysis proximally; procursus long, weakly sclerotized distally; uncus large, with a scaly edge; appendix with a large angular branch proximally and a small angular branch subdistally; embolus weakly sclerotized. Retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia I at 6.6%; legs with short vertical setae on tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi; without spines and curved setae; tarsus I with approximately 15 distinct pseudosegments.
Female: Similar to male, habitus as in Figs 22 G–H. Total length 4.97 (5.12 with clypeus), carapace 1.41 long, 1.13 wide, opisthosoma 3.56 long, 1.70 wide; tibia I: 9.29; tibia I L/d: 63. Distance PME-PME 0.25; diameter PME 0.11; distance PME-ALE 0.04; distance AME-AME 0.03; diameter AME 0.05. Sternum wider than long (0.96/ 0.70). Carapace with V-pattern posteriorly. Ocular area yellowish, without eye-stalks. External genitalia (Fig. 22 A) with a small knob. Vulva (Fig. 22 B) with a sclerotized anterior arch and two nearly rounded pore plates.
Distribution. Thailand (Chiangmai, type locality; Fig. 32).
Natural history. The species was found in the entrance zone of the cave.
description: Published as part of Dong, Tingting, Zheng, Guo, Yao, Zhiyuan & Li, Shuqiang, 2016, Fifteen new species of the spider genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia, pp. 201-246 in Zootaxa 4136 (2) on page 230, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/260704