Taira qiuae Wang, Jager &amp; Zhang 2010
Creators: name: Zhao, Jing-Xia
name: Wang, Lu-Yu
name: Irfan, Muhammad
name: Zhang, Zhi-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Amaurobiidae
Taira
Taira qiuae

description: <i>Taira qiuae</i> Wang, Jäger &amp; Zhang, 2010 Figures 25, 28 <i>Taira qiuae</i> Wang <i>et al</i>., 2010: 66, figs 19–25 (&amp;male; &amp;female;); Zhu <i>et al</i>. 2017: 583, figs 381A–E (&amp;male; &amp;female;). <b>Type material:</b> Paratypes 30 &amp;male; and 32 &amp;female; (SWUC-T-AM-08-01~62), <b>CHINA, Shaanxi,</b> Mt. Taibai, Houzhenzi Town, 33°52.54′N 107°48.58′E, 1700 m, 23–25.V.2009, Z.S Zhang, Y.F. Zhang and R.Y. Zuo, examined. <b>Materal examined.</b> <b>Shaanxi:</b> 4 &amp;male; and 2 &amp;female;, Zhouzhi County, Heihe National Forest Park, Yixiantian, 33°53.359′N 107°58.095′E, 1073 m, 17.V.2018, Z.S. Zhang, L.Y. Wang and J.X. Zhao (SWUC); 5 &amp;male; and 6 &amp;female;, Zhouzhi County, Houzhengzi Town, Tiejiashu, 33°50.928′N 107°49.909′E, 1160 m, 17.V.2018, Z.S. Zhang, L.Y. Wang and J.X. Zhao (SWUC); 1 &amp;male;, Houzhengzi Town, Mt. Taibai, 33°52.54′N 107°48.58′E, 1700 m, 7.X.2009, Z.X. Li (SWUC); 1 &amp;male;, Lueyang County, Wulongdong Forest Park, 33°36.371′N 106°18.344′E, 1754 m, 17.X.2018, L.Y. Wang (SWUC); 2 &amp;male; and 1 &amp;female;, Wulongdong Forest Park, 33°36.286′N 106°18.577′E, 1786 m, 1.VI.2013, M.X. Liu and X.W. Meng (SWUC); 2 &amp;male; and 2 &amp;female;, Wulongdong Forest Park, 1.VI.2013, M.X. Liu and X.W. Meng (SWUC); 1 &amp;female;, Hanzhong City, Mian County, Mt. Yunwu, 33°18.021′N 106°51.281′E, 1300 m, 30.V.2013, M.X. Liu and X.W. Meng (SWUC); 4 &amp;male; and 10 &amp;female;, Mt. Yunwu, 33°21.568′N 106°49.807′E, 1748 m, 31.V.2013, M.X. Liu and X.W. Meng (SWUC); 1 &amp;male;, Huayin City, Mt. Huashan, Qingkeping, 34°29.365′N 110°04.909′E, 1318 m (SWUC); <b>Hubei:</b> 10 &amp;male; and 2 &amp;female;, Shennongjia Forestry District, Hualanglu, Taohuagu, 31°38.883′N 110°25.733′E, 1579 m, 19.V.2018, Z.S. Zhang, L.Y. Wang and J.X. Zhao (SWUC); <b>Sichuan:</b> 1 &amp;male; and 8 &amp;female;, Jiuzhaigou County, Xiaojiuzhai, 33°15.375′N 104°14.902′E, 1479 m, 25.V.2013, L.Y. Wang and X.K. Jiang (SWUC); 10 &amp;male; and 3 &amp;female;, Jiuzhaigou County, Jiuzhaigou Scenic Spot, 33°15.966′N 103°55.173′E, 2051 m, 16.V.2018, Z.S. Zhang, L.Y. Wang and J.X. Zhao (SWUC); 1 &amp;female;, Nanjiang County, Mt. Micang, Daxiaolangou, 32°39.981′N 106°54.759′E, 1368 m, 18.V.2013, X.K Jiang and D. Wang (SWUC); 2 &amp;male; and 2 &amp;female;, Mt. Micang, Heixionggou, 32°41.319′N 107°00.230′E, 1625 m, 19.V.2013, X.K Jiang and D. Wang (SWUC); <b>Chongqing:</b> 1 &amp;male;, Chengkou County, Lantian Township, Sanhe Village, 31°56.131′N 108°57.228′E, 1361 m, 24.III.2013, X.K. Jiang and X.W. Meng (SWUC); 1 &amp;male; and 2 &amp;female;, Chengkou County, Heyu Township, Xumu Village, 31°55.393′N 109°01.930′E, 1593 m, 28.III.2013, X.K. Jiang and X.W. Meng (SWUC); <b>Gansu:</b> 4 &amp;female;, Kang County, Mt. Baiyun Scenic Spot, 33°19.669′N 105°36.166′E, 1201 m, 29.V.2013, L.Y. Wang and X.K Jiang (SWUC); 4 &amp;female;, Mt. Baiyun Scenic Spot, 33°19.257′N 105°35.996′E, 1401 m, 30.V.2013, L.Y. Wang and X.K Jiang (SWUC). <b>Diagnosis.</b> This species resembles <i>T. zhui</i> by having a free standing and long retrolateral tibial apophysis on the male palp and long, more or less, anteriorly converging spermathecae in the epigyne (Figs 25C, D). <i>T. qiuae</i>, however, can be differentiated from <i>T. zhui</i> by the following: median apophysis L-shaped in <i>T. qiuae</i> (Fig. 25D), whereas M-shaped in <i>T. zhui</i>; conductor pen nib-shaped (Figs 25D, E), whereas beak-shaped in <i>T. zhui</i>; spermathecae two times longer in <i>T. qiuae</i> (Fig. 25G) than in <i>T. zhui</i>. <b>Description.</b> See Wang <i>et al.</i> (2010). Habitus, male palp and epigyne (Fig. 25). <b>Distribution.</b> China (Chongqing, Gansu, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan) (Fig. 28).
description: Published as part of <i>Zhao, Jing-Xia, Wang, Lu-Yu, Irfan, Muhammad &amp; Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, 2021, Furtherrevisionofthemesh-webspidergenus TairaLehtinen, 1967 (Amaurobiidae) with the description of six new species, pp. 457-488 in Zootaxa 5020 (3)</i> on pages 482-483, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5020.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5223576
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