Scotospilus longus Zhang, Li & Pham, 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhi-Sheng
name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Pham, Dinh-Sac
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Scotospilus
Scotospilus longus

description: Scotospilus longus sp. nov.
Figs 8A–E, 9A–G, 10A–F
Type material. Holotype male, VIETNAM, VINH PHUC PROVINCE, Tam Dao National Park, disturbed forest, sieving, 21°31.251ʹN, 105°33.491ʹE, 693m, 13.VI.2007. Paratypes (8 females): 1 female, same data as holotype; 1 female, same data as holotype but 21°29.029ʹN, 105°37.192ʹE, 794m, sieving, 13.VI.2007; 1 female, same data as holotype but 21°31.251ʹN, 105°33.491ʹE, 693m, 18.VII.2007; 1 female, same data as preceding specimen but 19.IX.2007; 2 females, same area as holotype, but natural forest, 21°29.230ʹN, 105°37.203ʹE, 870m, 19.X.2007; 1 female, same place as holotype, natural forest, 21°29.428ʹN, 105°37.008ʹE, 1077m, sieving, 12.XI.2007; 1 female, same data as preceding specimen, but 21°29.428ʹN, 105°37.208ʹE, 1077m, sieving, 11.III.2008.
Etymology. The specific name is taken from the Latin word “ longus ”, meaning long and referring to the long RTA of the male palp, adjective.
Diagnosis. The new species is similar to S. nelsonensis (Forster, 1970: 149, figs 416–417) and S. planus (Forster, 1970: 147, figs 413–415) from New Zealand in having similar shape of patellar apophysis, the long and proximally extended RTA, the circular embolus; the relatively short copulatory ducts and spherical spermathecae with narrow distance from each other, but differs from the others by the absence of AME, the curved apex of the RTA (Figs 8A, 9A, 9E); a single copulatory opening centrally, the wide copulatory ducts and the absence of subspermathecae (Figs 8D–E, 10D–F).
Description. Male holotype (Figs 9A–C): Total length 0.92. Prosoma 0.52 long, 0.43 wide; opisthosoma 0.48 long, 0.38 wide. AME absent. Eye sizes and interdistances: ALE 0.05, PME 0.04, PLE 0.06; ALE–ALE 0.02, PME–PME 0.03, PME–PLE 0.01, ALE–PLE 0.01. Clypeus height (from the anterior margin of ALE to the margin of clypeus) 0.02. Leg measurements: I 1.40 (0.43, 0.48, 0.27, 0.22); II 1.22 (0.37, 0.40, 0.24, 0.21); III 0.92 (0.30, 0.26, 0.19, 0.17); IV 1.27 (0.38, 0.41, 0.28, 0.20). Leg formula: 1423. Chelicerae with 3 promarginal and 4 retromarginal teeth.
Male palp (Figs 8A–C, 9E–G). Patellar apophysis tuberculate, with a tip pointing retrolaterally. RTA extremely long, extending posteriorly, exceeding the base of patella, with a prolaterally curved apex. Embolus retroproximally orignated, curved along the margin of genital bulb, its end staying in the cymbial furrow near the embolic base. Median apophysis absent. Cymbial furrow longer than half of the cymbium and relatively shallow. One of female paratypes (Figs 9D, 10A–C) total length 1.27. Prosoma 0.56 long, 0.44 wide; opisthosoma 0.77 long, 0.63 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: ALE 0.05, PME 0.04, PLE 0.04; ALE–ALE 0.02, PME–PME 0.03, PME–PLE 0.01, ALE–PLE 0.01. Clypeus height (from the anterior margin of ALE to the margin of clypeus) 0.02. Leg measurements: I 1.19 (0.36, 0.40, 0.24, 0.19); II 1.07 (0.33, 0.35, 0.22, 0.17); III 0.98 (0.34, 0.31, 0.21, 0.13); IV 1.09 (0.38, 0.39, 0.25, 0.17). Chelicerae with 5–6 retromarginal teeth. Other characters as similar to the male holotype.
Epigyne (Figs 8D–E, 10D–F) with a combined copulatory opening centrally. Copulatory ducts relatively wide and short. Subspermathecae indistinct. Spermathecae rounded and posteriorly located, separated by half of their diameter.
Distribution. Vietnam (Vinh Phuc).
description: Published as part of Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, Li, Shuqiang & Pham, Dinh-Sac, 2013, First description of comb-tailed spiders (Araneae: Hahniidae) from Vietnam, pp. 343-356 in Zootaxa 3613 (4) on pages 351-352, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/218582