Trachelas
Creators: name: Zhang, Feng
name: Fu, Jian-Ying
name: Zhu, Ming-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Corinnidae
Trachelas

description: Key to Chinese Trachelas species
1. Male .............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
- Female........................................................................................................................................................................... 5
2. Embolus short, with pointed tip; patella without apophysis (Fig. 7) ........................................................... T. acuminus
- Embolus relatively long, tip blunt; patella with apophysis........................................................................................... 3
3. Carapace without granulations (Fig. 11); embolus longer, tip rotated about 360° (Figs. 12–14) ............... T. alticolus
- Carapace with granulations (Figs. 1, 17, 20, 23, 36); embolus relative short, tip only curved, not rotated ................ 4
4. Conductor trapeziform ventrally (Fig. 37); retrolateral tibial apophysis triangular from retrolateral view (Fig. 39) .... ....................................................................................................................................................................... T. sinensis
- Conductor elongate oval ventrally (Fig. 33); retrolateral tibial apophysis rectangular from retrolateral view (Fig. 35) ..................................................................................................................................................................... T. japonicus
5. Copulatory openings posteriorly; epigynum with a M-shaped epigynal hood (Fig. 9) .............................. T. acuminus
- Copulatory openings anteriorly or centrally; epigynum without epigynal hood ......................................................... 6
6. Epigynal plate with two triangular impressions (Fig. 18) ....................................................................... T. fanjingshan
- Epigynal plate without impressions.............................................................................................................................. 7
7. Each spermatheca composed of two globose parts (Fig. 16) ........................................................................ T. alticolus
- Each spermatheca only with one globose part............................................................................................................. 8
8. Bursa situated in the inner part of copulatory openings (Fig. 22) ................................................................... T. fasciae
- Bursa situated in the outer part of copulatory openings .............................................................................................. 9
9. Bursa club-shaped (Fig. 41) ........................................................................................................................... T. sinensis
- Bursa globose (Fig. 32) ................................................................................................................................ T. japonicus
description: Published as part of Zhang, Feng, Fu, Jian-Ying & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2009, A review of the genus Trachelas (Araneae: Corinnidae) from China, pp. 40-58 in Zootaxa 2235 on pages 42-43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190413