Taliniella vinki Rix &amp; Harvey 2010, sp. n.
Creators: name: Rix, Michael
name: Harvey, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Micropholcommatidae
Taliniella
Taliniella vinki

description: <i>Taliniella vinki</i> Rix &amp; Harvey, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 2F2F7C29-9BD8-4B9D-BF8B-F09D57881B46 Figs 129–130 <b>Type material.</b> Holotype male: Mount Thomas Conservation Area, Canterbury, New Zealand, track to summit from Wooded Gully Picnic Area, sifting moss, 43°11'31"S, 172°20'10"E, 3.iv.2006, M. Rix (MNZ). Paratypes: 1 male, same data as holotype (WAM T80032 DNA-MPE). <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet is a patronym in honour of Cor Vink, of AgResearch (Lincoln Science Centre, New Zealand), for his contributions to New Zealand Arachnology, and his hospitality during field work around Christchurch. <b>Diagnosis.</b> Males of <i>Taliniella vinki</i> can be distinguished from <i>T. nigra</i> by the presence of a dorsal scute on the male abdomen (Fig. 129A) and the presence of a longer embolus (Fig. 130). Females are unknown. <b>Description.</b> <i>Holotype male</i>: Total length 0.80. Carapace 0.44 long, 0.35 wide. Abdomen 0.59 long, 0.45 wide. Leg I femur 0.27. Cephalothorax, abdomen brown; legs dark tan-yellow. Carapace raised anteriorly, not fused to sternum except around petiole; dorsal surface of pars cephalica slightly convex, with declining profile in lateral view. Eight eyes present on anterior margin of pars cephalica; AME 0.6x diameter of ALE; PME separated by their own diameter. Chelicerae each with bulging anterior projection; promargin with two peg teeth. Legs relatively short (leg I femur-carapace ratio 0.61); macrosetae absent. Abdomen oval, slightly shrunken, covered with hairlike setae; dorsal scute large, covering most of dorsal surface of abdomen; lateral sclerotic strips absent. Pedipalpal patella with retrolaterally-directed, hooked lRPA bearing dorsal flange, broad, flange-like distal apophysis and ornate, ridged cuticular microstructure; tegulum smooth, with rounded basal embolic bulge, excavate ETR and curved, sclerotised marginal rim; embolus very long (length &gt;&gt; 5× width), coiling 1.5x around margin of tegulum (Fig. 130). <b>Distribution.</b> Known only from the Mount Thomas Conservation Area, north of Christchurch. <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Taliniella vinki</i> is an enigmatic species, similar to <i>Taliniella nigra</i> from the North Island. This species was included in the molecular phylogenetic analysis of Rix et al. (2008) as “ <i>Textricella</i> sp. NZ ”, where it was inferred as a basal taxon, sister to all other species now placed in the genera <i>Eterosonycha</i>, <i>Epigastrina</i>, <i>Normplatnicka</i>, <i>Raveniella</i> and <i>Rayforstia</i> (see Fig. 1).
description: Published as part of <i>Rix, Michael &amp; Harvey, Mark, 2010, The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): a relimitation and revision at the generic level, pp. 1-321 in ZooKeys 36 (36)</i> on pages 73-74, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.36.306, http://zenodo.org/record/576620
description: {"references": ["Rix MG, Harvey MS, Roberts JD (2008) Molecular phylogenetics of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae) using nuclear rRNA genes (18 S and 28 S). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 1031 - 1048."]}