Speocera cattien Li &amp; Li 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Tong, Yanfeng
name: Li, Fengyuan
name: Song, Yang
name: Chen, Haifeng
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Ochyroceratidae
Speocera
Speocera cattien

description: <i>Speocera cattien</i> Li &amp; Li sp. nov. (Figs 16–17, 56A) Material examined. Holotype &amp;male; (IZCAS), Vietnam, Dong Nai Province, Cat Tien National Park, Natural Forest (11º27.005′N, 107º21.863′E), elev. 173 m, 5.IX.2015, leg. Q. Zhao, Y. Li &amp; Z. Chen. Paratype 1&amp;female; (IZCAS), same data as holotype. Etymology. The specific name is derived from the type locality; noun. Diagnosis. The new species is similar to <i>S. xuanson</i> Li &amp; Li <b>sp. nov.</b>, but males can be distinguished by the unmodified chelicerae (Fig. 56A), the incrassate palpal tibia and cymbium (Figs 16A–B) and the sickle-shaped embolus (Fig. 16D), and females by the short afferent spermathecae and the large oval spermathecae (Fig. 17A). <i>S. xuanson</i> males have the chelicerae laterally excavated, with a small horn-like apophysis (Figs 57I–J), the palpal tibia and cymbium not incrassate (Figs 51A– B), and a nearly straight embolus (Fig. 51D), and females have very small spermathecae with long, curved afferent spermathecae (Fig. 52A). Description. Male. Total length 1.01; carapace length 0.46; carapace width 0.43; abdomen length 0.63; abdomen width 0.38. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern (Fig. 17C); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide. Endites light yellow, suffused with purplish tinge; with serrula; labium light yellow, suffused with purplish tinge. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two small denticles (Fig. 56A). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation, ALE, PME nearly subequal, PLE largest (Fig. 17C). Opisthosoma oval; purplish. Legs light yellow; leg formula 4123; leg lengths I 2.20 (0.63, 0.16, 0.64, 0.48, 0.29); II 1.99 (0.58, 0.16, 0.55, 0.42, 0.28); III 1.74 (0.49, 0.14, 0.46, 0.39, 0.27); IV 2.45 (0.67, 0.17, 0.70, 0.54, 0.36). Genitalia (Fig. 16). Palpal femur long; palpal tibia and cymbium incrassate, tibia about 1.2 times as long as cymbium (Figs 16A–B). Cymbium conical, without prolateral extension. Bulb spherical. Embolus long, sickle-shaped, dark and basally with a short associated sclerite; sperm duct initially wide, gradually narrowing distally (Fig. 16D). Female. Total length 1.10; carapace length 0.51; carapace width 0.44; abdomen length 0.58; abdomen width 0.52. Similar to male in color and general features (Figs 17D–E) but larger. Leg lengths I 2.08 (0.59, 0.18, 0.59, 0.44, 0.28); II 1.81 (0.50, 0.14, 0.51, 0.39, 0.27); III 1.60 (0.45, 0.13, 0.41, 0.37, 0.25); IV 2.18 (0.63, 0.15, 0.60, 0.51, 0.30). Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae short, curved, not extending past the sides of the abdomen; tip of the afferent spermathecae question mark shaped (Fig. 17B); spermathecae large, oval (Fig. 17A). Distribution. Known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of <i>Tong, Yanfeng, Li, Fengyuan, Song, Yang, Chen, Haifeng &amp; Li, Shuqiang, 2019, Thirty-two new species of the genus Speocera Berland, 1914 (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from China, Madagascar and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-75 in Zoological Systematics 44 (1)</i> on page 18, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201901, http://zenodo.org/record/5366923