Koppe doleschalli Deeleman-Reinhold 2001, sp. n.
Creators: name: Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Liocranidae
Koppe
Koppe doleschalli

description: <i>Koppe doleschalli</i> sp. n. (figs 416-421, map 21) <i>Type locality</i>.— Indonesia, Moluccas, Ambon. <i>Type material</i>,— Holotype <i>&amp;male;</i> in leaf litter in ravine near the sea close to Irie, 2.ii. 1995, C.L. Deeleman; 1 &amp;female; paratype with the holotype and 4 <i>juveniles</i>. <i>Other material</i>.— None. <i>Diagnosis</i>.— The male is distinguished from that of all other species by the much elongated, U-shaped embolar plate, the female by the characteristic shape of the epigyne and both sexes by the presence of a spine on tibia IV. <i>Description</i>.— MALE. Total length 3.8 0 mm. Carapace length 1.80 mm, width 1.28 mm, height 0.65 mm, width head 1.00 mm, width eye region 0.72 mm; abdomen length 2.90 mm, width 1.05 mm. Leg length: leg I 6.90 mm (1.80-2. 80- 1.10-1.20): leg II 5.90 mm (1.40-2. 10-1.50-0.90); leg III 4,75 mm (1.20-1.50 -1,25-0.80); leg <b>IV</b> 6.50 mm (1.60-2. 00­ 1.90-1. 00), palp 0.40-0.25-0.40- 0.75 mm. Orange -coloured spider, carapace with thin dark borderline and vague radiating streaks, chelicerae orange with dark veins, legs uniform orange. Eyes: AME only slightly larger than other eyes, PM 1 1/2 d apart, 1 d from laterals; no bulge in front of eyes. Chelicerae fig. 416. Sternum shiny with very few shallow pits, for the rest as <i>montana.</i> Dorsal scutum almost reaching tip <i>of</i> abdomen, leaving lateral strips uncovered. Legs: femora only feebly geniculate, tibia I with strong spines: 9pv and 9 <i>rv</i> spines with tuberculate base, tibia II with 9pv and 7rv, tibia III spineless, tibia IV with l-0v, metatarsi I with 6pv and 6rv, metatarsi II 6 pv and 4rv; metatarsus III spineless, metatarsus IV 1v. Palpal femur (fig. 417) with a row of 4 long proventral spines and 4 short retroventral spines, tibia with one retrolateral apophysis only; tegulum with small conductor and a similarly shaped membranous tegular apophysis, embolar plate flat (figs 417, 418), embolus proper short. FEMALE. Total length 4.00 mm. Carapace length 1.85 mm, width 1.32 mm, height 0.70 mm, head width 0.95 mm, width eye region 0.68 mm; abdomen length 2.20 mm, width 1.30 mm, epigyne 0.30 mm wide. Leg lengths: leg I 7.95 mm (1.80-3. 00-2.25 -0.90), leg II 6.10 mm (1.45-2, 30-1.50 -0.85), leg III 4.90 mm (1.20-1.60 -1.35-0.75), leg <b>IV</b> 7.00 mm (1.70-2. 20- 2.10-1.00), palp 0.80-0.30-0.52- 0.80 mm. Leg spination as male, tibia IV with 1v. metatarsus IV spineless. Palpal femur with 6 ventral spines in a row, patella with Id, tibia and tarsus with 1d and 1pl, Dorsal scutum over 2/3 of abdomen. Epigyne fig, 420, openings in lateral walls of window; vulva fig. 421. <i>Data on behaviour</i>.— The specimens lived on the ground on dead leaves; both adults and juveniles inhabited a characteristic retreat, consisting of an elongate white silken tube with a round opening on opposite ends (fig. 419). <i>Distribution</i>.— Only known from the type locality. <i>Etymology</i>.— Named after C.L. Doleschall, the first person who studied the spider fauna of Ambon and devoted a large paper to it in 1859.
description: Published as part of <i>Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa, 2001, Forest Spiders of South East Asia With a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanteriidae)., pp. 276-296 in Forest Spiders of South East Asia With a revision of the sac and ground spiders- Family Liocranidae, Netherlands :Brill Leiden; Boston; Köln</i> on page 294, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1048157