Khorata paquini 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 paquini

description: <i>Khorata paquini</i> sp. nov. Figs 41–44, 61 Type material: <b>Holotype:</b> male (IZCAS), Cave without a name [24°41.301ʹN, 109°14.057ʹE, alt. 197 m], Liucheng County, Liuzhou, Guangxi, <b>China</b>, 24 July 2009, Z.Y. Yao and C.X. Wang leg. <b>Paratypes:</b> 13 males, 21 females (IZCAS), same data as holotype. <b>Etymology:</b> The specific name is a patronym in honor of Dr. Pierre Paquin, a well-known arachnologist from Canada. <b>Diagnosis:</b> This species resembles <i>K. luojinensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> in having similar narrow dark median line behind ocular area (Figs 25C, 26C, 41C, 42C) and similar shape of procursus (Figs 25A–B, D; 27A, D; 28A; 41A–B, D; 43A, D; 44A), but can be distinguished by the shape of apophyses of male chelicerae (Figs 43B– C), the ventral view of female genital area (Figs 42A, 44C), and the nearly triangular pore plates of epigynum (Figs 42B, 44B). This species also resembles <i>K. liuzhouensis</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> in having similar male chelicerae (Figs 23B–C, 43B–C) and similar ventral view of female genital area (Figs 22A, 24C, 42A, 44C), but can be distinguished by the narrow dark median line behind ocular area (Figs 41C, 42C), the different distal elements of procursus (Figs 41A–B, D; 43A, D; 44A), and the dorsal view of epigynum (Figs 42B, 44B). <b>Description: Male (holotype):</b> Total length 2.44 (2.56 with clypeus), prosoma 0.85 long, 1.03 wide, opisthosoma 1.59 long, 1.25 wide. Leg I: 19.61 (4.81 + 0.51 + 5.13 + 6.79 + 2.37), leg II: 12.38 (3.50 + 0.43 + 3.08 + 4.12 + 1.25), leg III: 9.41 (2.75 + 0.37 + 2.24 + 3.15 + 0.90), leg IV: 12.74 (3.54 + 0.44 + 3.59 + 4.25 + 0.92); tibia I L/d: 44. Habitus as in Fig. 41C. Dorsal shield of prosoma yellowish, with black margins and narrow dark median line 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 0.12; distance PME-ALE 0.02; AME absent. Sternum slightly wider than long (0.63/0.59). Chelicerae as in Figs 43B–C, with pair of long, hooked frontal apophyses (distance between tips: 6 µm); pair of strong proximal apophyses and small sclerotized apophyses at basal part of frontal apophyses, respectively, without modified hairs; pair of small ledges on frontolateral surface distally. Palps as in Figs 41A–B; 43A, D; trochanter with retrolateral apophysis and small ventral projection, femur with retrolateral apophysis, patella large, procursus simple proximally but complex distally, bulb simple, no other projections except for embolus. Retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia I at 16%; 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 18 distinct ones distally. <b>Variation:</b> Tibia I in other males (n=12, leg I lost in the other specimen): 3.85–5.13 (mean: 4.60). <b>Female:</b> Similar to male, habitus as in Figs 42C–D. Tibia I in females (n=14, leg I lost in the other seven specimens): 3.85–4.42 (mean: 4.03). Genital area brown (Figs 42A, 44C), with internal structures nearly invisible through cuticle, apparently without pockets. Dorsal view of epigynum (Figs 42B, 44B) with two nearly triangular 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 page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2594.1.1