Khorata dupla Yao & Li, 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Yao, Zhiyuan
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Khorata
Khorata dupla

description: Khorata dupla sp. nov.
Figs 31–33, 41
Type material. Holotype: Male (IZCAS), leaf litter, Tad Fane Resort [15°10.944′N, 106°07.606′E, alt. 955 m], Champasak, Laos, 21 November 2012, leg. Z. Yao (Yao-LA 039–044). Paratypes: 1 male and 2 females (IZCAS), same data as holotype.
Etymology. The specific name is from Latin duplus (double), in reference to the two distal apophyses of procursus; adjective.
Diagnosis. The species resembles K. rongshuiensis (Yao & Li 2010: 14, figs 49–50 and 61), but can be distinguished by relatively short legs, different shape of anterior arch of vulva (Figs 32 B and 33F) and different shape of pore plates (Figs 32 B and 33F).
Description. Male (holotype): Total length 1.94 (2.01 with clypeus), prosoma 0.72 long, 0.84 wide, opisthosoma 1.22 long, 0.75 wide. Leg I: 10.97 (2.77 + 0.31 + 2.75 + 3.69 + 1.45), leg II: 7.12 (2.01 + 0.29 + 1.72 + 2.27 + 0.83), leg III: 5.78 (1.70 + 0.28 + 1.33 + 1.84 + 0.63), leg IV: 8.47 (2.15 + 0.30 + 1.82 + 2.55 + 1.65); tibia I L/d: 32. Habitus as in Fig. 32 C. Dorsal shield of prosoma yellowish, with black margins and a median black stripe behind ocular area; sternum black. Legs yellowish, with slightly darker rings on femora (subdistally) and tibiae (subproximally and subdistally). Opisthosoma grey, with large black spots. Distance PME-PME 0.08, diameter PME 0.11, distance PME- ALE 0.02, AME absent. Ocular area slightly elevated and separated from prosoma. Thoracic furrow shallow but distinct. Sternum slightly wider than long (0.53/0.50). Chelicerae as in Figs 33 C–D, with a pair of long, hooked frontal apophyses provided with scales distally (tips close together), a pair of thumb-shaped proximal apophyses provided with a small, sclerotized angular apophysis each, and a pair of small distal apophyses on frontolateral surface. Pedipalpi as in Figs 31 A–B and 33A–B; trochanter with a short retrolateral apophysis and a small ventral apophysis; femur with a retrolateral apophysis; patella large; procursus simple proximally but complex distally; bulb simple, no other apophyses except for embolus. Retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia I at 15%; legs with short vertical hairs on metatarsi (mostly dorsally and laterally), without spines and curved hairs; tarsus I with about 22 distinct pseudosegments.
Variation: Tibia I in another male: 3.10.
Female: Similar to male, habitus as in Figs 32 D–E. Tibia I (n=2): 2.49, 2.65 (mean: 2.57). One of the specimens measured: Total length 2.24 (2.33 with clypeus), prosoma 0.77 long, 0.80 wide, opisthosoma 1.47 long, 1.24 wide; tibia I: 2.65. Distance PME-PME 0.08, diameter PME 0.11, distance PME-ALE 0.03, AME absent. Epigynum (Figs 32 A and 33E) brown, with two large protrusions, without pockets. Vulva (Figs 32 B and 33F) with a bent arch anteriorly and a pair of nearly triangular pore plates.
Distribution. Known only from the type locality (Fig. 41).
description: Published as part of Yao, Zhiyuan & Li, Shuqiang, 2013, New and little known pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Laos, pp. 1-51 in Zootaxa 3709 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/248830