Plator bowo Zhu, Tang, Zhang &amp; Song, 2006, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zhu, Ming-Sheng
name: Tang, Gui-Ming
name: Zhang, Feng
name: Song, Da-Xiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Trochanteriidae
Plator
Plator bowo

description: <i>Plator bowo</i> sp. nov. (Figs 14 –19, 46) <i>Type material</i> Holotype female, CHINA: Tibet, Bowo (Bomi) County, N 29 ° 53 ’, E 95 ° 45 ’, 14 August 2002, Ming­Sheng Zhu, Feng Zhang, Jun­Xia Zhang, Zhi­Sheng Zhang leg. Paratypes: 3 females and 3 males, 6 juvenile females and 2 juvenile males, same data as holotype. (MHBU). <i>Diagnosis</i> This species can be easily distinguished from other species by female anterior epigynal margin sclerotized weakly and M­shaped, anteriorly copulatory ducts long (Fig. 16); male pedipalpus with a horn­shaped median apophysis in ventral view and pelmashaped in lateral view, embolus thin, long, and stick­shaped (Fig. 18). <i>Etymology</i> The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from the type locality. – <i>Plator bowo</i> 14–17. female. 14, carapace, dorsal view; 15, labium, endites, sternum and coxae, ventral view; 16, epigynum, ventral view; 17, vulva, dorsal view; 18–19. Male left pedipalp. 18, ventral view; 19, retrolateral view. Scale bars: 14, 1 mm; 15–19, 0.1 mm. <i>Description</i> Female (holotype): Total length 8.46. Carapace 2.79 long, 4.50 wide; opisthosoma 5.76 long, 5.94 wide. Carapace orange. All eyes circular in shape. Anterior eye row slightly recurved, posterior eye row recurved (Fig. 14). Eye diameters: AME 0.15, ALE 0.13, PME 0.13, PLE 0.18. Distances between eyes: AME–AME 0.08, AME–ALE 0.13, PME–PME 0.23, PME–PLE 0.28. MOA 0.40 long, front width 0.38, back width 0.49. Chelicerae with three promarginal and three retromarginal teeth. Clypeus, endites light yellow brown. Sternum light orange, with brown margins. Legs I–III red brown, legs IV greyish brown. Leg formula 2341. Leg measurements of <i>Plator bowo</i> <b>sp. nov.,</b> female. Opisthosoma oval, widest at middle. Dorsum grey yellow, clothed with small paddle hairs and sparse dark setae bearing spinules. Six spinnerents. Epigynum with anterior margin sclerotized weakly and M­shaped, copulatory ducts long anteriorly and spermathecae with lateral heads (Figs 16–17). Male total length 6.30. Carapace 2.43 long, 3.60 wide; opisthosoma 4.05 long, 4.05 wide. Carapace orange. Eye diameters: AME 0.14, ALE 0.13, PME 0.13, PLE 0.15. Distances between eyes: AME–AME 0.05, AME–ALE 0.05, PME–PME 0.19, PME–PLE 0.20. MOA 0.35 long, front width 0.33, back width 0.43. Appearance of opisthosoma and legs as female, but opisthosomal coloration grey. RTA of pedipalpus relatively long, directed forward. Median apophysis horn­shaped in ventral view and pelma­shaped in lateral view. Embolus thin, long, and stick­shaped (Figs 18–19). <i>Va r i a t i o n</i> Body length: females 7.11–8.46; males 5.76–6.30. <i>Distribution</i> Southwest China (Tibet). <i>Biology</i> Living under bark of dead trees.
description: Published as part of <i>Zhu, Ming-Sheng, Tang, Gui-Ming, Zhang, Feng &amp; Song, Da-Xiang, 2006, Revision of the spider family Trochanteriidae from China (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), pp. 31-51 in Zootaxa 1140 (1)</i> on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1140.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/172053