Hersiliola lindbergi Marusik &amp; Fet 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Fet, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hersiliidae
Hersiliola
Hersiliola lindbergi

description: <i>Hersiliola lindbergi</i> sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3609714D-77BE-4D7F-AA5F-34125B7693B9 Figs 1.3, 7.5-6, 8.3 <b>Type material.</b> Holotype &amp;female; with label “ 1&amp;female; Paratyp, SMF 12996, No. 15, Afghanistan ”, in SMF. <b>Etymology.</b> The species name is a patronym honoring its collector, Dr. Knut Lindberg (1892-1962) of Lund, Sweden, who conducted an important expedition to Afghanistan between 1957 and 1960. <b>Note</b>. Roewer (1960) in his description of <i>H. afghanica</i> indicated only one adult specimen, the holotype female. All paratypes were juveniles. Labels of the holotype of <i>H. afghanica</i> (GNM) and the SMF 12996 “ paratype ” were written by the same hand, probably by Roewer. <b>Description.</b> Male unknown. Female: Total length 3.6. Carapace 1.5 long, 1.7 wide, femur I 2.5 long, femur I/carapace length ratio 1.66. General colouration light yellowbrown. Carapace without pattern but with dark margins. Abdomen with a wide heart spot and one transverse stripe; sides with brown bands. Legs without distinct annulations. Chelicerae and maxillae without strong setae. Coxae IV separated by less than one diameter. Epigyne as in Figs 7.5-6, 8.3, with septum as wide as epigyne openings; median plate not separated from the epigynal plate; translucent spermathecae small and round, close to each other, their diameter approximately equals width of epigyne openings, windows absent; spermathecae separated from the opening by three diameters; insemination ducts long, making six coils around fertilization duct; the upper loop welldeveloped; accessory glands small, digitiform. <b>Diagnosis.</b> <i>H. lindbergi</i> sp. n. clearly differs from other species by the very long insemination ducts making six coils and an apical loop. It can be also distinguished by small round spermathecae, the shape of the septum and the epigyne openings. <b>Comments.</b> There is a certain possibility that <i>H. lindbergi</i> sp. n. belongs to another genus. Unlike in <i>H. maculullata</i>, <i>H. afganica</i>, <i>H. simoni</i>, <i>H. sternbergsi</i> sp. n., <i>H. versicolor</i>, and <i>Duninia baehrae</i> sp. n., the median plate in this species is not separated from the epigynal plates and has no accessory sclerites or windows. The position of <i>H. lindbergi</i> sp. n. cannot be confirmed until a male is found. <b>Distribution.</b> Afghanistan, without a precise locality.
description: Published as part of <i>Marusik, Yuri &amp; Fet, Victor, 2009, A survey of East Palaearctic Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae), with a description of three new genera, pp. 75-114 in ZooKeys 16 (16)</i> on page 85, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.16.229, http://zenodo.org/record/576478
description: {"references": ["Roewer CF (1960) Araneae Orthognathae, Haplogynae und Entelegynae. Solifugen und Opilioniden. (Contribution a l'etude de la faune d'Afghanistan 23). Goteborgs Kunglige Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhalles Handlingar, B 8 (7): 3 - 53."]}