Insula minuta Zhou & Li, 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zhou, Yuanye
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Hyalidae
Insula
Insula minuta

description: Insula minuta sp. nov.
Figs 167–179, 258
Type material: Holotype: male, Mt. Yinggezui (19°03.037′N, 109°44.899′E, alt. 622 m), Qiongzhong County, Hainan Island, China, 8 May 2011, leg. Yuanye Zhou. Paratypes: 2 males, 3 females (IZCAS), same data as holotype.
Etymology. The specific name is from Latin minutus (small), in reference to the size of the species; adjective.
Diagnosis. Male can be distinguished from other species as follow: from I. curva sp. nov. by the compound teminal apophysis which is rough distally (Figs 167, 173; bent and S-shaped in I. curva sp. nov., Figs 105, 111); from I. hebetata sp. nov., I. scutata sp. nov. and I. uncinata sp. nov. by the relatively short patellar apophysis (Figs 167, 173; 122, 128; 206, 212; 245, 251); from I. limuensis sp. nov. and I. nigricula sp. nov. by the branched and longer patellar apophysis (Figs 167, 168, 172, 173; 135, 136, 140, 141; 180, 181, 185, 186); from I. ramosa sp. nov. by the rough tip of compound teminal apophysis which is bent downward (Figs 173, 174; smooth and bent upward in I. ramosa sp. nov., Figs 199, 200); from others by the details of patellar apophysis. Female differs from other species by the shape of epigyne which is approximately darkened on posterior one third portion (Figs 170, 175).
Description. Male (Figs 167, 168, 171–174, 177): Total length 1.7, PL 1.0, PW 0.8, OL 0.7, OW 0.6. Eye sizes: AME 0.25, ALE 0.15, PME 0.03, PLE 0.15, AER 0.8, PER 0.7, EFL 0.55. Legs: I 1.6 (0.5, 0.3, 0.35, 0.25, 0.2), II 1.45 (0.4, 0.25, 0.3, 0.3, 0.2), III 1.3 (0.4, 0.2, 0.25, 0.25, 0.2), IV 1.8 (0.6, 0.2, 0.5, 0.3, 0.2); formula: 4123.
Dorsal prosoma light brown, with dark sides, covered with brown and white setae. Clypeus height 0.05, Clypeus gray brown, covered with light brown setae. Fovea, cervicle and radial grooves unclear. Chelicerae small and yellow, with two promarginal teeth, retromargin with five teeth. Endites, labium and sternum yellow. Leg I with black longitudinal stripes. Metatarsus I with three pairs of ventral spines. Optisthosoma cylindrical, dark brown, with three pairs of yellow spots; anterior margin covered with long brown setae; ventral opisthosoma light yellow. Spinnerets light yellow, anterior spinnerets shorter and stronger than posterior ones. Palp (Figs 167, 168, 171–174): Patellar apophysis wide proximally and pointed distally, with two sharp points. Compound teminal apophysis broad in ventral view, rough and bent distally, with deep groove extending towards the apex. Embolus long and distally curved.
Female (Figs 169, 170, 175, 176, 178, 179): Total length 2.0, PL 0.9, PW 0.8, OL 1.0, OW 0.8. Eye sizes: AME 0.25, ALE 0.15, PME 0.05, PLE 0.15, AER 0.75, PER 0.7, EFL 0.65. Legs: I 1.6 (0.5, 0.25, 0.35, 0.3, 0.2), II 1.35 (0.4, 0.2, 0.3, 0.25, 0.2), III 1.35 (0.35, 0.25, 0.25, 0.3, 0.2), IV 2.05 (0.6, 0.3, 0.5, 0.4, 0.25); formula: 4132.
Optisthosoma oval, grayish brown, with one pair of pale yellow spots, following two yellow latitudinal stripes. Other characters similar to those of male. Epigyne (Figs 170, 175): moderately sclerotized, longitudinal axis darkened, with less sclerotized areas anteriorly. Vulva (Figs 169, 176): Copulatory ducts long and membranaceous, merged at middle of the vulva. Glandular ducts thin and twisted. Spermathecae oval, connect to an irregular sclerite.
Distribution. The species is known only from the type locality (Fig. 258).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Yuanye & Li, Shuqiang, 2013, Two New Genera of Jumping Spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Salticidae), pp. 1-84 in Zootaxa 3712 (1) on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3712.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/284739