Khorata robertmurphyi YAO &amp; LI, 2010, sp. nov.
Creators: name: YAO, ZHIYUAN
name: LI, SHUQIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Khorata
Khorata robertmurphyi

description: <i>Khorata robertmurphyi</i> sp. nov. Figs 45–48, 61 Type material: <b>Holotype:</b> male (IZCAS), Xianren Cave [22°57.535ʹN, 107°36.948ʹE, alt. 241 m], Longhushan Natural Reserve, Longan County, Nanning, Guangxi, <b>China</b>, 4 August 2009, Z.Y. Yao and C.X. Wang leg. <b>Paratypes:</b> 10 males, 32 females (IZCAS), same data as holotype. <b>Etymology:</b> The specific name is a patronym in honor of Dr. Robert W. Murphy, a well-known zoologist from Canada. <b>Diagnosis:</b> This species resembles <i>K. nanningensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> in having similar shape of procursus and male chelicerae (Figs 47B–C), the ventral view of female genital area (Figs 46A, 48C), and the dorsal view of epigynum (Figs 46B, 48B). <b>Description: Male (holotype):</b> Total length 1.93 (2.08 with clypeus), prosoma 0.72 long, 0.85 wide, opisthosoma 1.21 long, 0.87 wide. Leg I: 16.54 (4.04 + 0.38 + 4.23 + 5.77 + 2.12), leg II: 10.41 (2.97 + 0.37 + 2.56 + 3.36 + 1.15), leg III: 7.67 (2.21 + 0.32 + 1.92 + 2.47 + 0.75), leg IV: 10.07 (2.99 + 0.33 + 2.50 + 3.45 + 0.80); tibia I L/d: 47. Habitus as in Fig. 45C. Dorsal shield of prosoma yellowish, with black margins and black median stripe behind ocular area; sternum black. Legs yellowish, with slightly darker rings on femora (subdistally) and tibiae (proximally and subdistally). Opisthosoma grey with large black spots dorsally and ventrally. Ocular area slightly elevated and separated from prosoma, thoracic furrow shallow but distinct; distance PME-PME 0.09; diameter PME 0.09; distance PME-ALE 0.01; AME absent. Sternum slightly wider than long (0.51/0.49). Chelicerae as in Figs 47B–C, with pair of long, hooked frontal apophyses (distance between tips: 0.02); pair of strong proximal apophyses provided with scales, with lateral elliptic ledges, without modified hairs; pair of small ledges on frontolateral surface distally. Palps as in Figs 45A–B; 47A, D; trochanter with retrolateral apophysis and small ventral projection, femur with retrolateral apophysis, patella large, procursus simple proximally but complex distally, bulb simple, with embolus and small rounded hump retrolaterally. Retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia I at 15%; legs with short vertical hairs on all metatarsi (mostly dorsally and laterally), without spines and curved hairs; tarsus I with more than 30 pseudosegments, only about 14 distinct ones distally. <b>Variation:</b> Tibia I in other males (n=5, leg I lost in the other five specimens): 3.78–4.17 (mean: 4.06). <b>Female:</b> Similar to male, habitus as in Figs 46C–D. Tibia I in females (n=25, leg I lost in the other seven specimens): 3.33–4.42 (mean: 3.86). Genital area brown (Figs 46A, 48C), with internal structures nearly invisible through cuticle, without distinct pockets. Dorsal view of epigynum (Figs 46B, 48B) with two long pore plates. <b>Distribution:</b> The species is known only from the type locality (Fig. 61).
description: Published as part of <i>YAO, ZHIYUAN &amp; LI, SHUQIANG, 2010, Pholcid spiders of the genus Khorata Huber, 2005 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Guangxi, China, pp. 1-79 in Zootaxa 2594 (1)</i> on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2594.1.1