Pholcus gonggarensis Yao & Li, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Dong, Tingting
name: Zheng, Guo
name: Yao, Zhiyuan
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Pholcus
Pholcus gonggarensis

description: Pholcus gonggarensis Yao & Li sp. nov.
Figs 13–14, 27 C–D
Type material. Holotype: male, Gonggar Town (29°04.824′N, 93°09.097′E, elevation 3184 m), Nang County, Nyingchi, Tibet, China, 11 August 2014, Y. Li leg. Paratype: 1 female, same data as holotype.
Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality; adjective.
Diagnosis. This species resembles P. lijiangensis Yao & Li, 2012 (see Yao & Li 2012: 23, figs 102–105) with similar male chelicerae (Fig. 14 D), appendix (Fig. 14 C) and vulva (Fig. 14 B) but can be distinguished by the long apophysis on male pedipalpal trochanter (Figs 13 A–B), by the presence of a wide, membranous prolateral process distally and the absence of thick prolateral spines subdistally on the procursus (Fig. 13 C), by the distally strongly protruding uncus (arrow in Fig. 14 C) and by the epigynum blunt on the lateral margins (arrow in Fig. 14 A).
Description. Male (holotype): Total length 4.84 (5.20 with clypeus), carapace 1.44 long, 1.64 wide, opisthosoma 3.40 long, 1.56 wide. Leg I: 45.37 (11.28 + 0.79 + 11.41 + 19.64 + 2.25), leg II, leg III and leg IV missing; tibia I L/d: 71. Distance PME-PME 0.28; diameter PME 0.11; distance PME-ALE 0.05; distance AME- AME 0.08; diameter AME 0.08. Sternum wider than long (1.06/0.81). Habitus as in Figs 14 E–F. Carapace yellowish, with radiating brown marks extending to ocular area; ocular area yellowish; sternum brown, with yellowish marks medially. Leg yellow, distal parts of femur and tibiae whitish, femora (subproximally and subdistally) and tibiae (subproximally and subdistally) with darker rings. Opisthosoma yellowish, with small spots dorsally and laterally. Ocular area elevated, without eye stalks (Fig. 27 C). Thoracic furrow absent. Chelicerae as in Fig. 14 D, with a pair of proximo-lateral apophyses, a pair of distal apophyses, and a pair of frontal apophyses. Pedipalps as in Figs 13 A–B; trochanter with a ventral apophysis; femur with a distinct ventral ridge; tibia with a projection prolaterally; procursus simple proximally but complex distally, with a wide, membranous prolateral process distally; uncus with a scaly edge and distally strongly protruding (arrow in Fig. 14 C); appendix hooked, with a branch medially; embolus weakly sclerotized, with some transparent projections distally. Retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia I at 7%; legs with short vertical setae on tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi; without spines and curved setae; tarsus I with 26 distinct pseudosegments.
Female: Similar to male, habitus as in Figs 14 G–H. Total length 4.35 (4.74 with clypeus), carapace 1.41 long, 1.42 wide, opisthosoma 2.94 long, 1.56 wide; tibia I: 9.49; tibia I L/d: 64. Distance PME-PME 0.23; diameter PME 0.11; distance PME-ALE 0.03; distance AME-AME 0.06; diameter AME 0.07. Sternum wider than long (1.01/ 0.81). Epigynum (Fig. 14 A) with a knob. Vulva (Fig. 14 B) with a sclerotized anterior arch and two nearly rounded pore plates.
Distribution. China (Tibet, type locality; Fig. 28).
Natural History. The species was found on the rock walls.
description: Published as part of Dong, Tingting, Zheng, Guo, Yao, Zhiyuan & Li, Shuqiang, 2016, Thirteen new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 4170 (1) on pages 19-22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4170.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/265456