Pholcus kottawagamaensis 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 kottawagamaensis

description: Pholcus kottawagamaensis Yao & Li sp. nov.
Figs 5–6
Type material. Holotype: male, Kottawagama Village (06°05.822′N, 80°18.560′E, elevation 63 m), Yabbalamulla, Galle District, Sri Lanka, 14 October 2014, Z. Yao and Q. Zhao leg. Paratypes: 1 male and 3 females, same data as holotype.
Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality; adjective.
Diagnosis. This species resembles P. maturata Huber, 2011 (see Huber 2011: 177, figs 745–748, 777–778, 805–808) in having a similar procursus (Figs 5 A–B) and female genitalia (Fig. 6 A) but can be distinguished by the relatively long proximo-lateral apophyses on the male chelicerae (Fig. 6 D) and by the presence of a slender subproximal apophysis and the absence of subdistal apophyses on appendix (Fig. 6 C).
Description. Male (holotype): Total length 4.42 (4.55 with clypeus), carapace 0.81 long, 0.98 wide, opisthosoma 3.44 long, 0.65 wide. Leg I: 49.96 (11.54 + 0.48 + 10.64 + 24.74 + 2.56), leg II: 30.53 (7.37 + 0.44 + 7.69 +13.78 + 1.25), leg III: 14.83 (4.23 + 0.39 + 3.68 + 5.71 + 0.82), leg IV missing; tibia I L/d: 97. Distance PME-PME 0.09; diameter PME 0.13; distance PME-ALE 0.04; AME absent. Sternum wider than long (0.64/0.52). Habitus as in Figs 6 E–F. Carapace dark brown, ocular area dark brown; sternum dark brown. Legs yellowish, patellae, distal part of tibiae, and proximal parts of metatarsi dark brown, darker rings absent. Opisthosoma yellowish, with dark grey spots dorsally and laterally. Ocular area elevated; each eye triad on top of a long, laterally directed eye-stalk (as in P. tharnlodensis sp. nov., cf. Fig. 31 A), with small median conical projection in place of AME. Thoracic furrow absent. Chelicerae as in Fig. 6 D, with a pair of unsclerotized
proximo-lateral apophyses slightly curved inwards. Pedipalps as in Figs 5 A–B; coxa with a small retrolateroventral apophysis; trochanter with a long ventral apophysis; femur widened proximally; procursus simple proximally but complex distally; appendix with small apophyses distally and a slender branch subproximally; embolus weakly sclerotized; no uncus. Retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia I at 2.9%; legs with short vertical setae on tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi; without spines and curved setae; tarsus I with approximately seven distinct pseudosegments.
Female: Similar to male, habitus as in Figs 6 G–H. Total length 5.21 (5.45 with clypeus), carapace 1.00 long, 1.06 wide, opisthosoma 4.21 long, 0.83 wide; tibia I: 8.85; tibia I L/d: 60. Distance PME-PME 0.26; diameter PME 0.10; distance PME-ALE 0.05; AME absent. Sternum wider than long (0.70/0.56). Carapace yellowish, with brown U-pattern posteriorly, ocular area yellowish; sternum yellowish. Opisthosoma yellowish. Ocular area without eyestalks and median projections. External genitalia (Fig. 6 A) with a long knob. Vulva (Fig. 6 B) with a sclerotized anterior arch and two oval pore plates.
Distribution. Sri Lanka (Galle, type locality; Fig. 32).
Natural history. The species was found on the underside of leaves.
description: Published as part of Dong, Tingting, Zheng, Guo, Yao, Zhiyuan & Li, Shuqiang, 2016, Fifteen new species of the spider genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia, pp. 201-246 in Zootaxa 4136 (2) on pages 208-211, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/260704